E-prescription app development enabling enhanced efficiency across the Healthcare paradigm

E-prescribing of medicines is a significant development in the healthcare industry. Different from the conventional practices where a patient has to keep a physical prescription, today, healthcare professionals use e-prescription software to send the medical prescription directly to the pharmacies. All across the USA and Major parts in the UK have incorporated e-prescription app development in their healthcare mechanism. Here in this blog, we are giving an overview of e-prescription software and its advantages.

Introduction: 

E-prescribing can be described as a procedure of sending prescriptions in an electronic format with the use of any mobile devices via e-prescribing software. It involves the transmission of medical information to the pharmacies. Because of its advantages, it is adopted by the majority of hospitals in the USA. It eliminates the need to prepare and manage physical medical prescriptions and difficulty in understanding the doctors' writing. The e-prescribing software has access to the patient's history and transmits the prescription to the selected pharmacy.

It has quickly taken over the faxed and paper prescriptions and added to the growth of efficiency of the healthcare systems. The outcome of the adoption of software resulted in decreased medical errors. The doctors can provide prescriptions that streamline, accuracy, error-free, and understandability. 

 

Major components of the e-prescribing system:

Ø  Prescriber

Ø  Transaction hub 

Ø  Pharmacy integrated with electronic prescribing software 

Ø  Pharmacy Benefit manager 

How does it work?

As most of the healthcare systems are advancing with modern technologies, the e-prescription system is a significant part of the medical practice of the professionals. Now, the patient does not have to wait for the medical staff to get signed copies and spend in the queues at pharmacies to receive medications. 

Here, in this software, the doctors can go through the medical history of the patients and can acknowledge the allergies and past medications. Doctors can sign the prescription, which is safeguarded with the encryption from unauthorized access. This prescription is then transmitted to the pharmacy patients have listed where patients can collect the medications. 

Benefits 

Initially, e-prescribing was a way to reduce the burden of the pharmacy and staff for saving time and reduce the overheads cost. It has proved to be valuable in the medical system and pharmacies. Listed below are some critical benefits of e-prescribing software.

·      Elimination of medical errors: 

     In many instances, the pharmacies used to deliver inaccurate medicines due to reading the unclear handwriting of doctors. The pharmacist has much time to give medication that sounded familiar. These mistakes can lead to severe outcomes and affect patients' health. The use of e-prescribing has eliminated the difficulties in handwriting mistakes and enables the pharmacist to provide particular medicine to the patients.

·      Enhanced automation: 

     The medications come in various forms and strengths as necessitated for the patients. The doctors had to write the details along with the strengths of the medicine in the prescriptions. The prescription may lack some other information. But the e-prescriptions there are various sections categorized to fill all the details such as dosage, strengths, and frequency of medicines. It provides complete and precise information to the pharmacist to save patients from any kind of confusion. It facilitates enhanced decision making, reducing the risk of getting wrong prescriptions. 

·    Swiftness is the medical process: 

      In the conventional form, doctors were unable to have access to the patient's history and previous medications, and it was a hard task to track the details. All prescriptions had to be documented at one placed in a physical stack. E-prescribing software enables the doctors to go through the medications and track the history of patients at one place in just a few taps. The software can fetch the information at times it is needed and speed up the process. 

·    Instant notification: 

      E-prescribing software enables the doctors to access the full information and inform readily about the allergies other medical conditions of patients. It contains all the health-related data of the patients. In case the drug, physician is prescribing may contain that can be allergic to patients. The software recognizes and instantly provides an update and notification regarding the same. The physicians can provide alternate or any substitute for the particular drug.

·      Track the complete medication: 

     In the traditional prescriptions, physicians could not track the medication of patients. In some instances, the patients lose the prescription or started feeling better and stop the medication. In these cases, E-prescribing software will enable the doctors to have access to the knowledge of the completion of prescriptions. In case the patient has completed the cycle, doctors can provide medical consultation, which will help understand the frequency. 

·   Enhanced patient satisfaction: 

      It offers automation of clinical support and better decision making. This software provides increased comfort to the patients as they do not need to pay many visits for collecting medicines. It also protects the patients from losing prescriptions or not carrying it is required for an emergency.