| Special Features Of An EMR |
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| Implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) is a major initiative that should be undertaken only after a thoughtful analysis of the costs and benefits involved. |
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| ADA for exchanging data processing standards to the dental services of the health care industry... |
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| Barack Obama: In his Plan for a Healthy America, Obama calls for lowering costs through investment in electronic health information technology systems, acknowledging... |
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E-Prescription Definition
Electronic prescribing is an electronic way to generate prescriptions through an automated system over the Internet that transmits to a network which links to participating pharmacies. |
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| Benefits of e-prescribing: |
1. Improves patient safety and overall quality of care - Illegible hand-written prescriptions are eliminated, decreasing the risk of medication errors and decreasing liability risks.
2. Reduces/eliminates phone calls and callbacks to pharmacies - Physician offices are overwhelmed by callbacks from pharmacies with questions, clarifications and refill requests.
3. Increases patient compliance - Approximately 20% of paper prescriptions go unfilled by the patient. E-prescribing systems expedite the filling of prescription at the pharmacy.
4. Improves Formulary adherence - By checking with insurance company formularies, generic substitutions are encouraged thus reducing patient costs.
5. Improves reporting ability - Prescription reporting would be impossible with a paper prescription system. Electronic prescriptions can be easily reported on such as: |
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- Finding all patients who have had a particular medication prescribed to them during a Drug Recall
- The frequency of medication prescribed by certain providers etc.
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