Improving patient safety is the cornerstone of the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI).
We’re all patients – which places us all at risk of medical error. Prescription medication errors injure 1.5 million Americans and claim more than 7,000 lives each year.
Medication errors are not only a danger to us as patients but also a major contributor to the high cost of healthcare that we all bear. The goal of NEPSI is to reduce medication errors and healthcare costs by making electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) accessible and desirable to every physician and medication prescriber in America.
eRx places the patient at the center of the equation by reducing the need for people to convey and manage their own prescription information. All patients need to do with eRx is pick up their prescriptions!
eRx benefits patients by creating a highly secure and private means to transfer prescription information:
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Improves patient safety and quality of care
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Eliminates handwriting, which can lead to prescription errors |
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Checks and alerts for drug interactions, dosage levels and patient-specific factors including prior adverse reactions |
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Provides doctors with access to complete patient history |
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Automates and streamlines prescriptions, refill requests and authorization
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Eliminates the many errors that occur as a result of relying on patients to transfer paper prescriptions |
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Helps improve patient compliance and convenience
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Expedites prescription filling |
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Reduces trips to the pharmacy |
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Provides access to drug literature |
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Ask your physician to register for ePrescribing today!
Coming soon: Find physicians using eRx NOW™ in your area.
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