Electronic prescribing (or e-Rx) can be very helpful if the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system saves the information as part of the patient's medical record.
All physician and caregiver offices should be migrating to an all-electronic prescription system. If physicians who use EHRs are not e-prescribing, prescriptions should be captured by scanning the paper prescription into the EHR or fully documenting the name, dose, quantity, instructions, and refill amount.
Physicians and caregivers should know the source of drug and clinical decision support information in their EHRs, because they may be held accountable to the clinical standards of care for their specialty and for the information in FDA-approved drug labels or drug alerts.
Always verify with the CURES system for patient safety and security. All refill medication requests should be processed through your electronic system.
Authored by
Allan Ridings and Joseph Wager
Senior Risk Management & Patient Safety Specialists
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