Improve The Prescription Efficiency Of Your Cosmetic Surgery Practice Using The Best Electronic Prescribing Software

 The COVID 19 pandemic has highlighted the importance and urgency of integrating remote solutions into patient care and has led to a major shift in the number of e-prescriptions in recent times. In the medical world, Electronic prescription or Eprescription is a solution that allows doctors and physicians to electronically generate a prescription and send it directly from a healthcare provider to a patient's pharmacy of choice. Although these technologies are not new, they were not widely used in the United States just a decade back. The software has proven to be very beneficial for the practice of cosmetic surgery. After completing a long, arduous cosmetic operation, every surgeon feels fatigued. If at that point they have to hand-write a prescription, then of course that prescription becomes more prone to errors. A hastily scribbled prescription dispensed by the doctor can lead to errors when patients deliver it to the pharmacy. On the other hand, electronic prescribing software provides peace of mind throughout the prescribing process in any cosmetic surgery practice and increases efficiency. This is not just a messaging system, but is placed in advanced pharmacy software systems for patient care management in the new clinical direction seen in cosmetic and plastic surgery practices. Many patients and caregivers are only now beginning to see the value of this technology in healthcare.

 

Benefits that a cosmetic surgery practice can derive from a well-integrated Electronic Prescription software

·         Convenient for the patients: - When a person leaves a cosmetic surgeon’s chamber with a hand written prescription, he has to drive to a nearest pharmacy shop and wait for your turn.  But with the convenience of electronic prescription, he has no such worry. Before he leaves the surgeon’s chamber, a staff working in the practice might have sent the prescription electronically over a secure, encrypted network connection straight to the preferred pharmacy of the patient. It is beneficial for the pharmacy as typically, this gives enough time to them to fill the prescription while you are traveling to that location. It is immensely beneficial to the patients as well as he won’t have to wait and can have his prescribed medicines without wasting any time.

 

·         Error free prescription: - Electronic prescription software related to the cosmetic practice is very clear in terms of treatment and dosage and requires less interpretation from the pharmacist. When the software is integrated with EHR software of the cosmetic surgery practice, surgeons can compare drug choices and study data to choose the most appropriate medication for every individual patient. The solution is proven to reduce prescription and medication errors and ensure patients have the most accurate information about how to take a particular drug. The solution reduces the risk of incorrect dosage, which can harm the patient.

 

·         Better monitoring of controlled substances: - The software enables the surgeons and physicians to keep track of how many controlled substance prescriptions a surgical patient has received and allows them to track and monitor data from multiple pharmacies as needed.

 

 

·         Increased prescription efficiency: - Handwritten prescriptions are both tedious and expensive in terms of medical staff and time investment, as they often have to be prepared and approved individually. On the other hand, cosmetic eprescribing allows the surgeons to automatically refill a number of RXs at once, giving them sufficient time to review them. This can both increase efficiency and reduce the prescribing error rate. Cosmetic surgeons can also quickly authorize emergency refills in cases where patients have left their medications at home and are traveling or on an extended office tour.

 

 

 

Across the cosmetic surgery spectrum, the electronic prescribing software solution has proven to offer surgeons and other medical professionals the opportunity to save valuable time, reduce medication errors, improve patient experience, coordinate care and increase operational efficiency in the cosmetic surgery practice.

For more information and best IMS (intelligent medical software) integrated cosmetic EHR software specifically built to serve every aspect of cosmetic and aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery, dermatology, medical spa, and wellness practices in the US, contact CosmetiSuite today.