The bulk of the over 3.7 billion prescriptions issued in United States last year were still written manually, generating the need for an estimated 150 million phone calls from pharmacists to physicians' offices for clarification on handwriting, dosing and other issues. Up to 40 percent of prescriptions require reworking at the retail pharmacy before they are dispensed to the patient. Medication errors are currently responsible for an estimated 7,000 deaths per year, and approximately $77 billion is spent annually on treatment of adverse drug events.  ePrescribing will benefit patients, physicians and pharmacists by significantly decreasing medication errors, reducing the incidence of adverse drug reactions, saving physicians and pharmacists valuable time now spent on non-clinical administrative tasks, and enabling payers to improve formulary program compliance -- collectively saving millions of dollars while potentially increasing patient and physician satisfaction.

ePrescribing - the ability for a physician to electronically submit a "clean" prescription directly to a pharmacy from the point of care -- has been widely viewed as a critical element in improving the quality of patient health care and reducing medication errors. ePrescribing is an essential step in the migration to the comprehensive automation of clinical processes.

ePrescribing platform of Shritech supports real-time connectivity between physicians, payors, pharmacy benefit managers and retail pharmacies.  To encourage the adoption of our ePrescribing platform we provide payers and physicians with successful strategies and best practice models; offer extensive information on ePrescribing to educate physicians and their office staffs about the value of ePrescribing; and support lobbying efforts that urge governments to incent the adoption of ePrescribing and electronic medical records.
 

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