E-prescribing
HealthPort e-prescribing module, with its industry leading content and functionality, allows physicians and staff to gain the maximum benefits of prescribing medications electronically including increased physician, staff and patient satisfaction and enhanced patient safety.
The module streamlines back office business systems and saves time and money through efficiency of electronic medication orders, renewals and formulary checking.
Physician and Staff Satisfaction
- New prescriptions, refill requests and prescription changes can be managed within the system.
- Approval of refill requests for multiple patients with one click.
- Prescriptions can be managed via a smart phone.
- Additional security available through optional electronic signature password on the prescription.
- Physicians can choose the amount of information that he/she reviews to avoid alert fatigue.
Patient Satisfaction
- Allows patient pharmacy benefits eligibility checks.
- Physicians can split prescriptions if mail order pharmacy benefits are available to patient.
- Physicians can check insurance formulary and inform patient of coverage and provide advice on generics or more affordable alternatives.
Patient Safety
- Previously prescribed medications notated in the EMR, before implementation of e-prescribing, are included in interaction alerts with newly prescribed drugs.
- Electronic transmission of new prescriptions, refills and changes in general reduces errors of miscommunication and misinterpretation.
HealthPort e-Prescribing is powered by DrFirstTM.