How is patient privacy protected with ePrescribe Iowa?
ePrescribe Iowa offers physicians and patients the highest level of security available, with multiple and redundant layers of protection. ePrescribe Iowa uses the same tools and techniques that protect credit card transactions, including firewall, intrusion prevention and detection systems and protection for the program’s remote servers. Because all patient information is stored on remote servers in a secure location, patient privacy will not be compromised even if a physician’s computer or phone is stolen. To further protect privacy, all patients are assigned a private identifier that ties their medication record to their physician, and only their physician can access the record. Allscripts is legally required never to divulge information identified by the federal HIPAA regulations as “personal health information.” And Allscripts has developed an elaborate process for verifying the identity of prescribers and confirming that they are authorized by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency t
