I have been e-prescribing with one program or another for about 5+ years. It took a while for the local pharmacies to figure out I was doing that. Once they knew to expect it, when a patient showed up asking for a prescription, they would automatically look in the computer. Prior to that, they would look on the fax machine. It took a while for them to know where to look, and not assume we had not sent it.
That is an advantage of a smaller community, where all the pharmacies know who I am. But, as above, mostly the issues seem to lie with the pharmacies, not the e-prescribing system.
I cannot say that AC is my favorite e-prescribing program... I liked the Allscripts web-based system a lot better... but having it integrated with the rest of the record is vital.
Last edited by dgrauman; 07/06/2011 9:43 PM.
