National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative

The National e-Prescribing initiative will also target patients with this free for physician service.   Now there is no reason not to use e-Prescribing.  There is a permanent link on this site to this website for information and access at any time.  This is sponsored by some of the largest folks in the IT business today and is at no cost for the physician.  If you are not using an EMR that is already established with e-Prescribing, take a look and see what can be had for free.  Shortly, the patients will be looking as the marketing campaign expands...BD

We’re all patients – which places us all at risk of medical error. Prescription medication errors injure 1.5 million Americans and claim more than 7,000 lives each year.
Medication errors are not only a danger to us as patients but also a major contributor to the high cost of healthcare that we all bear. The goal of NEPSI is to reduce medication errors and healthcare costs by making electronic prescribing (eRx) accessible and desirable to every physician and medication prescriber in America.
eRx places the patient at the center of the equation by reducing the need for people to convey and manage their own prescription information. All patients need to do with eRx is pick up their prescriptions!
eRx benefits patients by creating a highly secure and private means to transfer prescription information:
Improves patient safety and quality of care
Eliminates handwriting, which can lead to prescription errors
Checks and alerts for drug interactions, dosage levels and patient-specific factors including prior adverse reaction.

Ask your physician to register for eRx today!
Coming soon: Find physicians using eRx NOW™ in your area.

Source: Patients - National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative