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E-Prescribing

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E-Prescribing Consists of Four Main Elements:

• Prescription Options: Full e-prescribing provides physicians with clinical and cost information on prescription options that allows them to better counsel consumers on which medications—including generic drugs—will be the safest and most affordable choices. This information is provided to prescribers in real-time by health plans and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

• Patient Medication Histories and Safety Alerts: Comprehensive patient medication histories tell prescribers not only what they have prescribed, but what other doctors have prescribed. E-prescribing systems make this crucial information available to doctors in real-time so that they can help consumers avoid adverse outcomes from events such as drug-drug interactions. If such problems are detected, full e-prescribing systems automatically send prescribers electronic safety alerts before the prescription is sent to the pharmacy.

• Pharmacy Options: Information on preferred pharmacy options—including both retail and mail-service options—tells prescribers which pharmacies will be least expensive for consumers in terms of out-of-pocket costs. Reduced out-of-pocket costs—particularly for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions—have been shown to increase the likelihood that consumers will take their medication as prescribed.

• Transmittal to Pharmacy: Electronic data entry and transmittal of the prescription to the pharmacy helps pharmacists to avoid transcription errors due to illegible handwriting. It also cuts down wait times for patients, since pharmacies can start processing prescriptions immediately after they are written.

PCMA E-Prescribing Videos

	E-Prescribing Gains Momentum in Congress View the Video
	PCMA's New E-Prescribing TV Ad Read More Watch Video Now
	PCMA E-Prescribing TV Ad featuring Institute of Medicine (IOM) expert panelist J. Lyle Bootman View the video
	PCMA’s New Print Ad: E-Prescribing is Ready Now Download
	PCMA E-Prescribing Print Ad Download
	New Photo Gallery: The PCMA/RxHub E-Prescribing Symposium HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, Senator John Kerry, and the founder of the Center for Health Transformation Newt Gingrich addressing PCMA/RxHub’s recent E-Prescribing Symposium. View the Gallery

Senator John Kerry on PCMA’s E-Prescribing Leadership

As a leading voice for electronic prescriptions, Senator Kerry comments underscore the important role PCMA is playing in the fight to eliminate medication errors and lower costs through e-prescribing. Read Congressional Record

PCMA Research

Visante Study: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Will Save Billions and Reduce Medication Errors by Accelerating E-Prescribing

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Gorman Health Group E-Prescribing Study

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National Survey of Physicians Regarding E-Prescribing

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Research

No Research for this category in 2010

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Press Releases

August 2010

08.25.2010

PCMA: New AARP Study on Brand-Name Drug Price Increases Underscores Need for Greater Use of PBM Cost-Saving Tools

July 2010

07.27.2010

PCMA: New Generic Pharmaceutical Study Finds Savings of $824 Billion Over the Last Decade

07.13.2010

PCMA Statement on Final EHR ‘Meaningful Use’ Rules

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