What if the patients pharmacy only receives faxes?
If the pharmacy selected to receive the prescription does not have electronic prescription capability, the electronic prescribing application you use may present options to Fax or Print. Or, as you write new prescriptions your application may have the capability to determine if the pharmacy can receive the prescription electronically, or via fax. Please check with your vendor for specifics on this process for your system. Pharmacies receiving faxed based communications will not be able to send you refill requests electronically until they establish their own connection to the SureScripts.
If the pharmacy selected to receive the prescription does not have electronic prescription capabilities, the electronic prescribing application you use may present options to fax or print. Or, as you write new prescriptions, your application may have the capability to determine if the pharmacy can receive the prescription electronically or via fax. Please check with your vendor for specifics on this process for your system. Pharmacies receiving fax-based communications will not be able to send you refill requests electronically until they establish their own connection to Surescripts. If you would like to encourage non-connected pharmacies to e-prescribe, communication resources are available by clicking here. More than 95% of the nation’s pharmacies use systems that can be enabled for e-prescribing. More than 75% currently process prescriptions electronically.
