Electronic Prescribing
Medication safety is everyone’s business – starting with your doctor and pharmacy. As your advocate, Humana encourages your doctor to prescribe your medications electronically rather than on a prescription pad.
Electronic prescribing – also called “e-prescribing” – can reduce medication errors and increase patient safety.
What is Electronic Prescribing?
E-prescribing simply means that – instead of handing you a prescription on paper – your doctor sends your prescription order, or any prescription-related information, to your pharmacy of choice over a secure Internet connection or through an e-prescribing network. So you simply show up at your pharmacy to pick up your prescription.
How E-Prescribing can benefit you:
- Convenience - eliminates the need for you to drop off your prescription and wait for it to be filled.
- Improved Medication Safety - by physicians entering prescriptions electronically in a standard format, decreases many of the opportunites for errors.
- Better management of medication costs - e-prescribing systems can access your insurance information and physicians can prescribe medications that are covered on your prescription drug plan This may save you money on your drug costs!
- Easy Refills - E-prescribing also allows your pharmacist to communicate with the doctor electronically, and can speed up the process of refilling your medications.
Find out if your doctor and pharmacy have e-prescribing capabilities at Surescripts.com
