Don’t Wait for a Mandate
3 Reasons That Make e-prescribing a Best Practice Now
Why is e-prescribing Needed
Medical complexity for senior patients is high, requiring more medications and interventions.
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12
Average number of medications taken by skilled nursing residents
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16-27%
Nursing home residents affected by medication errors
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200,000
U.S. deaths from preventable medical mistakes and infections
Benefits of e-prescribing
Improved Patient Safety
e-prescribing reduces transcription and communication errors, and checks for drug interactions.
*In states that have enacted e-prescribing laws, errors rates dropped in the first year of implementation.
Greater Efficiency
Time Savings: 43.5 hours per month
* Estimate assumes an average time savings of 5 minutes per prescription, using an average census of 87 and monthly prescriptions of 6 per resident.
No need for special prescription pads, faxes, follow-up phone calls
Provides automated, standardized, and consistent ordering
Compliance with State & Federal Mandates
Verification of identity and authority to dispense
Accurate and validated workflows support audit tracking
PointClickCare’s e-prescribing solutions
Source:
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3995494/
- https://www.pintas.com/blog/the-most-dangerous-medications-for-nursing-home-residents/
- https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.14683
- https://skillednursingnews.com/2020/04/cms-releases-nursing-home-staffing-resident-data-to-help-states-make-ppe-testing-decisions/
- 2021 Internal Data on Medication Use in PointClickCare Senior Care Facilities.
