ePrescribing
Greenway’s ePrescribing software provides physicians the ability to send electronic prescriptions to the patient’s preferred pharmacy after confirming the prescription is on the patient’s formulary list and electronically process refill request. Patient demographics, allergies and medication history are displayed with each inquiry to provide greater accuracy and efficiency to the prescription filling process.
What is ePrescribing?
Our integrated ePrescribing solution gives PrimeSUITE providers the ability to submit electronic prescriptions to the patient’s preferred pharmacy. Prescriptions can be sent directly to the pharmacy from the point-of-care through PrimeSUITE.
Within the ePrescribing solution, the provider also has the ability to view and import the patient’s medication and prescription history as provided by pharmacy benefit management (PBM). The electronic prescription can also be checked against the patient's formulary listing.
If a provider needs to access patient medication records remotely, our ePrescribing solution can also be accessed on a supported PDA or via a web browser. When a prescription is generated remotely, the medication is automatically synchronized with the PrimeSUITE medication list.
What are the features?
- Submit electronic prescriptions directly to the patient’s preferred pharmacy via PrimeSUITE or remotely via a web browser or PDA
- Process renewal requests within our ePrescribing solution
- View formularies based on the patient's insurance coverage
- View the patient's PBM medication history and select medications from the PBM to import into the PrimeSUITE medication list
- Submit prescriptions to mail order pharmacies
- Access a comprehensive pharmacy listing within PrimeSUITE
Did you know?
Starting January 1, 2009, physicians who use electronic prescriptions for Medicare patients are eligible for 2% increase on their Medicare reimbursement payment.
Who benefits from ePrescribing?
Studies have shown that ePrescribing will save physicians and care providers up to three hours a day. Physicians and care providers are able to see FDA safety alerts, the patient’s drug history, drug allergies and formulary requirements before drugs are prescribed. This is a proactive way to reduce errors as well as time spent pulling charts and communicating with pharmacies about handwriting inquiries, medication coverage and renewal authorizations.
Patients will have a much lower risk of physical harm due to paper prescription errors. ePrescribing reduces out-of-pocket costs with formulary messages. In addition, ePrescribing cuts time spent at the pharmacy since the pharmacy will have already received the electronic prescription prior to the patient's arrival.
Physicians will also save time by not having to re-enter data for renewal request because they are received electronically and the patient’s chart is automatically updated to reflect the refill. Customer relationships will also improve because prescriptions will be filled faster.
What are some problems with paper prescriptions?
- 1.5 billion people become ill or die each year from errors
- $2 billion goes to cover these errors each year
- Physicians write down drugs that can be dangerous taken with existing medications
- Illegible handwriting can lead to nurses writing down the wrong drug/dosage or pharmacists filling a prescription with the wrong drug/milligram dosage