ePrescription: The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative

This great initiative ensures the safety of the patients. From now on, the legibility of a doctor’s handwriting should not determine whether a patient lives or dies. This new electronic prescription system Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc and Dell Inc will make the physicians and pharmacies to use a Web-based prescription system that will reduce the errors caused by illegible handwritten paper prescriptions. The best part of the new initiative is that involves no cost for the doctors and will require minimal training. This will encourage them to adapt to this system easily. Doctors are being invited to register for the program online. The system is expected to replace the traditional pen-paper subscription method very soon and therefore, saving thousands of patients from suffering due to wild guess made by the pharmacists to provide the drugs.