With today’s technology, doctors can electronically generate a prescription and send the prescription electronically to the pharmacy of the patient’s choice. The doctor can easily find the patients pharmacy through searching by city or the zip code of your pharmacy. The federal government is encouraging doctors to send prescriptions electronically as another way to reduce the cost of healthcare.
As of November 2013, over 55% of all healthcare providers now generate their prescriptions electronically. In the past, doctors would write the prescription on a 3 ½ x 5 piece of prescription paper. Writing the prescriptions by hand created many issues that included not being able to read the doctors handwriting and in some cases patients altering the strength or number of pills in the prescription. It is estimated that over 80% of all pharmacies in the country can accept electronic prescriptions. In the event the pharmacy is not set up to accept electronic prescriptions, the prescription that was sent electronically would be forward via fax to the pharmacy.
The biggest benefit associated with electronic prescriptions is time savings. When your doctor writes a prescription electronically, the software checks to ensure that the new prescription will not have any side effects or conflict with any of the other prescriptions you are currently taking. In addition, prescription renewals can be electronically approved by your doctor from the pharmacy. Electronic prescriptions are accurate and eliminate the legibility issue associated with hand written prescriptions. If you doctor is using ViewMyHealthRecords.com then you will be immediately notified each time a new prescription or prescription refill is approved by your doctor. Once approved, ViewMyHealthRecords.com will email you using the email we have on-file that was provided by your doctor. This eliminates you having to follow up with your doctor throughout the day to determine if your prescription was approved and communicated to your pharmacy.
If your doctor is not currently sending your prescriptions electronically then recommend they contact ViewMyHealthRecords.com and we will advise them of their options in sending prescriptions electronically. ViewMyHealthRecords.com is the trusted source used by thousands of healthcare providers in communicating with their patients.