By using an electronic medical record system or e-prescribing application certified to connect to the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, your practice can experience dramatic efficiency gains and enhanced patient safety.

• Save Time. Prescription refill authorization requests are sent directly to your computer. You can then review and respond to all of your pending requests with a few keystrokes. This streamlined process reduces pharmacy faxes and phone calls and allows you to complete refill authorizations in much less time.
• Enhance Productivity. The reduction in pharmacy faxes and phone calls associated with refill requests, legibility issues, drug incompatibility or ineligibility will provide you with more time to devote to patient care.
• Improve Patient Safety. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) 1.5 million preventable medication errors occur in the United States each year. Pharmacy connectivity can help prevent medication errors and the injuries they cause.
• Access Single View of Patient Rx History Across Community Pharmacies. Accessing a single view of a patient's Rx History across providers during a patient's office visit helps to decrease the risk of preventable medication errors and increase your ability to manage a patient's adherence and compliance.

Simply automating the renewal authorization process can immediately yield dramatic efficiency gains. Fewer pharmacy faxes and phone calls will give you and your staff more time for patient care and reduce the amount of time your practice spends on administrative functions that are not reimbursable. How many hours varies by practice size and number of patients and prescribers, but anecdotal evidence suggests 2 to 4 hours a day.

Here's How it Works:

1. Patient calls pharmacy to request a prescription renewal.
	2.Pharmacy software system routes the refill authorization request through a secure network to your computer.
3. You or your staff review the request and approve or deny with a few keystrokes.
	4. Authorization arrives at the pharmacist's computer within seconds.

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