E-Prescriptions Can Be Better for Consumers
Why the alternative to the pen-and-paper Rx is faster, more accurate and easier to monitor
by Barbara Stepko, AARP, July 31, 2018|Comments: 0
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Like VHS tapes and road atlases, doctors’ prescription pads are fast becoming a thing of the past. In fact, e-prescribing is now the primary way physicians are writing and sending prescriptions to pharmacies to be filled, via computers or handheld mobile devices.
In states such as Maine, Minnesota and New York doing so is the law. In Arizona, Iowa and North Carolina it soon will be. And Congress’ Every Prescription Conveyed Securely Act of 2018 would mandate e-prescriptions for controlled substances in Medicare Part D by 2020.
And while, yes, this means that more people potentially have access to your medical records, the trend also comes with benefits that go far beyond no one's having to decipher a doctor’s chicken scratch.
https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-2018/doctors-e-prescriptions-patient-benefits.html?intcmp=AE-HEA-R1-C1-ART
