HIE Reaches 1 Million E-Prescriptions

my1HIE, LLC (My One Health Information Exchange) announced recently that more than 1 million e-prescriptions have been sent from more than 700 affiliated healthcare providers throughout southeastern Michigan.

my1HIE has worked with physicians to help them actively adopt the usage of e-prescribing through their myWorkspace Physician Web Portal. Working with its member physicians organizations, my1HIE has been able to educate and train providers and their staff on the improved care and safety and the time and cost benefits that e-prescribing offers to them and their patients.

With continued double digit adoption rates and increased e-prescribing usage, my1HIE healthcare providers have accounted for more than 1 million of the estimated 8 million electronic prescriptions written by the state of Michigan, making my1HIE the largest group of independent physicians e-prescribing in the state.

E-prescribing is an option offered through my1HIE that allows healthcare providers to use any PC with Internet access to write and transmit prescriptions instantly to a pharmacy. Providers receive alerts on patient drug allergies, drug interactions, and therapeutic duplication, access insurance plan eligibility and formulary compliance, authorize renewals and refills, and easily track a patient’s medication history.

Approximately 7% of the prescriptions written were changed or cancelled due to drug-to-drug interactions and allergy-to-drug interactions, allowing my1HIE physicians to help prevent an unknown number of unnecessary patient illnesses, hospitalizations, and even deaths. An additional 60,000 formulary alerts were identified at the point-of-care, which saved patients money by providing a more affordable alternative.

Source: my1HIE

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