Post date: Sep 1, 2012 7:36:18 PM
The E-prescribing Task Force of the Ohio Health Information Partnership published its survey results in the form of a Improving E-prescribing in Ohio white paper. While the majority of physicians and pharmacists agreed that e-prescribing helps, the large minority that did not is worthy of noting.
Do you believe that e-Prescribing has improved patient safety? Physicians saying no (41%), Pharmacists saying no (47%).
The top three problems reported by physicians: missing prescriptions at the pharmacy (45.51 percent), difficulty choosing the correct drug from the list of choices (44.8 percent), and duplicate pharmacy refill requests (39.1 percent).
For 35% of pharmacists who did not consider e-prescribing generally accurate, 40% reported errors 11%-50% of the time.
The survey results are worth reading.