We Have a Brainstorming Activity For You!

(If you are a doctor, don’t think like one – think like a patient). Imagine that you go to the doctor’s office and get a prescription for some sort of medicine you need within the next few days. A couple of days later you are getting ready to leave the house to fill your prescription… but you can’t find it.

You’ve looked everywhere, exhausted all possible places it could be hiding, but that little piece of paper has once again disappeared.

Now what do you do? You have to call your doctor’s office, talk to the receptionist, then maybe the nurse, and then, if you’re lucky, you may get a chance to speak with your doctor…and tell him/her that you lost your prescription. As the doctor… that's annoying, isn’t it? But of course you write a new prescription and have the patient notified that they can come pick it up.

Back to being the patient...  

You realize that you have to drive all the way back to your doctor’s office to pick up that tiny piece of paper and then take it back to your pharmacy. That's a lot of extra work, isn’t it? What a frustrating day you must have had! But the worst part when you come home to find that your original prescription was lying on the kitchen table the entire time! Just under a newspaper from the day before. Great.

We’ve all experienced a very similar scenario and it is frustrating beyond belief.

Are you wishing that in this day of modern technology, there were was just a simple platform that could magically send your prescription right to your pharmacy?

Well… there is! Inforia Inc. has the option of including eScripts when you get our Caregiver Desktop EHR system. The scenario we just gave you is the exact reason why we have this feature. E-prescribing is a very efficient tool and a big part of Meaningful Use Stage 2. There are actually bonuses for participants who use e-prescribing in accordance with the stimulus rules, and, unfortunately, there is also a penalty if you don’t.

Check out this short, but informative easy-to-read article about the part e-prescribing plays in Meaningful Use Stage 2. There is even a fun interactive graphic that explains everything in even simpler terms!