ePrescribing provides prescribers with information about drug counter-indications and allergies, reduction of handwriting interpretation errors, drug history information leading to better clinical decision-making, real-time FDA Safety Alert information, formulary checks with associated decrease in patient calls, and improvements in office efficiency.
Benefits to physician office staff include a reduction in calls from patients regarding covered medications and renewals; a reduction in calls from pharmacies regarding non-covered medications and costs or handwriting issues; and increased likelihood of patient medication compliance.
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Save Time
- Tuffs Health Plan – Savings of up to two hours per day for physicians and office personnel
- Henry Ford Foundation - 85% of physicians agree that ePrescribing improved the practice of medicine at their clinic. 3
- AHRQ - Estimated 30% of all non e-Prescriptions require pharmacy callbacks, e-Prescribing will reduce pharmacy callbacks by 80%. 7
- Hewlett Packard - Estimated 2 hours per day per Physician reduction in time spent with prescribing and Rx issues 8
Save Money
- Henry Ford Foundation - Of 1.7 million prescriptions sent electronically in 2006 Generic use rate improved from 57% to 68% which was calculated to have saved $1.44 million 3
- Milliman / RxHub - Primary care physicians using electronic prescribing have the potential to generate annual generic drug savings of $175 to $260
- per member per year. 5
- Hewlett Packard - 50% reduction in pharmacy callbacks 8
- America’s Pharmacist, April, 2005 – The average per-prescription reduction in Pharmacy Labor costs from e-Prescriptions was $.97 for new prescriptions and $0.37 for renewed prescriptions. 9
Save Lives
- Tuffs Health Plan – 8.9 fewer safety errors per physician per year 1
- Henry Ford Foundation - 77% of physicians agree that ePrescribing improves the safety of care 3
- Institute of Medicine (IOM) - 1.5 million Americans are injured by medication errors. 25% of these injuries are preventable. 4
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Over a 4-week period, 61% of the physicians who used clinical reference software believed that the use of the clinical reference prevented adverse drug events or medication errors 3 or more times. 6
- ePrescribing systems can avoid more than 2 million ADEs annually, of which 130,000 are life-threatening. 7
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