What is now making e-prescribing stand out from other modules?
Though there are other PDA-based medical applications, none of them can be implemented as quickly as e-prescribing. For instance, Electronic Medical Record (EMR) management implementations can take up to two years. PocketScript can be up and running in one to two weeks. During installation of the wireless access points, patient demographics are also pulled into the system, enabling the physician to use it readily. There is yet another reason that e-prescribing stands out – it doesn’t require the physician to alter behavior or modify office workflow, nor does it unduly influence current prescribing routines. The only change is that it saves time for the doctor and the pharmacist. What kind of cost-benefit or ROI analysis does ZixCorp employ to convince the doctors of the product’s value? The savings in time is huge and immediate! For a practice that gets 100 prescription renewal requests a day, e-prescribing cuts the time it takes to process a prescription renewal in half. This means th
