ePrescribing involves the electronic transmission of a prescription, rather than a hand-written version. The benefits of ePrescribing include improved patient safety, streamlined medical processes and reduced healthcare costs.
Besides simply transmitting a prescription, ePrescribing applications also:
- Check for allergies to specific medications and medication classes
- Check for medication interactions
- Recommend formulary substitutions
- May display benefit plan information
- May display step-therapy, prior-authorization and tiered formulary information
- May be used on a web browser or a PDA (using a wireless PDA enhances the user experience and encourages adoption of electronic prescribing)
The Southeastern Michigan ePrescribing Initiative (SEMI) is a coalition involving the three major U.S. automakers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - as well as the United Auto Workers, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the Health Alliance Plan, Henry Ford Medical Group, Medco Health Solutions, CVS/Caremark, RxHub and SureScripts.
A recent study by the group showed:
- For 9 out of 10, ePrescribing met or exceeded expectations
- Over 70 percent are very satisfied with the ePrescribing system
- Close to 70 percent highly agree that ePrescribing improves the quality of patient care
- Nearly 65 percent of the physicians reported at least one change in a prescription due to a safety alert
Click here to see a news release and summary report of the study.
OSP defines a preferred system as one that:
- Stores all patient data in a warehouse containing all RxHub elements
- Is fully SureScript certified
- Uses prescribing tools that encompass drug-to-drug interactions and allergy alerts
- Supports handheld, laptop or PC-based use
- Offers 24/7 help to facilitate prescription processing
- Is fully HIPAA-compliant and can track all user touch-points
OSP ePrescribing Incentive Program
Oakland Southfield Physicians (OSP) is offering a program that provides financial support for electronic prescribing. Financial assistance will be provided to each participating physician assuming utilization threshold met and supporting data is available. Physicians must be continuously enrolled in the OSP BCBSM Physician Group Incentive Program (PGIP) group. To learn more about OSP's electronic prescribing initiative,
click here.
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