An E-prescription is a digital version of a paper prescription. During your consultation, your healthcare provider can send you an email with your electronic prescription. E-Prescribing is a prescriber’s ability to electronically send an accurate, understandable prescription directly. Electronic Prescribing (E-prescribing) solutions is highly beneficial to the healthcare industry. Some include improved patient safety, fewer medication errors due to handwritten prescriptions. Others include fewer medication errors due to misunderstood phoned-in prescriptions, and a lower risk of lost or misplaced written prescriptions.

The hospital has a high revenue growth in 2018 among all the segments in the global e-prescribing market and is expected to continue this trend over the coming years. The e-prescribing market size was valued at $885.6 million in 2018 and is projected to reach $4,152.7 million by 2026.

Microsoft E-prescription

The E-prescriptions app automates the process of sending prescriptions to patients in an electronic format without any manual intervention from admins. Doctors can pull up their appointment details and quickly generate an e-prescription for each appointment which lands in a patient’s email inbox.

How E-prescription Works

• The patient will book an appointment using Microsoft bookings, selecting the time, day, and doctor.
• The doctor checks the “E-Prescriptions Doctor app”, where all the appointments for the day are.
• Doctor and patient can have the meeting via Microsoft teams.
• Using the “E-Prescriptions Doctor app”, the doctor will write the prescription to the patient and send it using the app.
• The patient will receive the prescription in the mailbox.

E-Prescription Components

Firstly, E-Prescriptions app uses Power Platform and the Bookings app, for the patients to book an appointment with the doctor at a desired date and time. Secondly, the doctor’s team acknowledges the appointment, conducts the consultation, and generates an e-Prescription. As a result, the patient receives the email during the booking of the appointment.

End User Experience

Once the doctor uses our solution to send the prescription to the patient. The patient will receive an email with a PDF attached that include the e-prescription. For reference check the following image:

As part of the benefits for patients of using e-prescription, fewer medication errors due to handwritten prescriptions, fewer medication errors due to misunderstood in prescriptions.

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