Effects of Electronic Prescribing on patient safety
Effects of Electronic Prescribing on patient safety: Electronic prescribing software enables electronic communication of prescriptions to pharmacies from the health care provider. The possibility of e-prescribing is to lessen the time gap between the point of care and point of service in regards to patient safety; it also involves in reducing medication errors, and value-added quality of care. Benefits: *Introduction of electronic treatment of drug can give many benefits *Reducing Medical Errors *Increase in on-time workflow *Time Management *A strategy for avoiding possible mistakes Electronic Prescription has the potential to ease patient involvement with medication awareness. It actually creates patient-friendly interfaces. Patients have access to their electronic medication records while health care professional has also login into the same interface which builds the rapport between patient and provider. Whenever a health care provider visits patients during ...