Open AccessE-Prescribing: Benefit, Barrier, and Adopting Challenge in Electronic Prescribing
Author(s) -
Rasmi Zakiah Oktarlina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2075-5384
pISSN - 1997-9797
DOI - 10.3329/jom.v21i2.50213
Subject(s) - medicine , electronic prescribing , affect (linguistics) , adaptation (eye) , health information technology , health records , electronic health record , healthcare system , patient safety , information system , meaningful use , medical emergency , family medicine , nursing , medical prescription , health care , linguistics , philosophy , physics , electrical engineering , engineering , optics , economics , economic growth
E-Prescribing system provides prescribing drugs electronically that can be a stand-alone system or be integrated with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) system. When implementing an E-Prescribing system, we need to consider it’s benefits and barriers, also adopting factors that can affect the success of the implementation. The main advantage of using an E-Prescribing system is to increase patient safety, meanwhile, the biggest barriers and challenges are it’s cost-related and adaptation by health facilities and related health workers. This article review provides information about E-prescribing and it’s elements to help for a better understanding of the system and to give some insights before adopting the e-prescribing system.
J MEDICINE JUL 2020; 21 (2) : 98-101