E-Prescribing technology allows practitioners to detect potentially harmful drug interactions, avoid misreading of handwritten prescriptions, permits generic alternatives to be readily identified, and allows for lower co-pays of medications due to health plan approval alerts. The wide-spread adoption of eprescribing which will result in greater patient safety due to better medication management, decision support and improved clinician workflow. Medicare's E-Prescribing Incentive Program may motivate more physicians to convert from paper-based prescriptions to e-prescribing.
Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and EMR software system, a physician's office is better equipped to provide vastly improved patient care, along with the likelihood of improved outcomes. Also if you want to participate in the e-prescribing incentive program you must use a qualified e-prescribing system. Medication errors account for an estimated 7,000 deaths each year in the United States. E-prescribing decreasing the risk of medication errors and liability risks to physicians and other health care prescribers.