GARDEN CITY, NY (May 20th, 2008) - Doctations, Inc., developer of unique internet-based medical system DocPatient.com, announced today that it has partnered with electronic prescription information provider SureScripts. The partnership will allow DocPatient.com to further empower its physician-patient relationship utilities by offering secure access to vital patient prescription records. Doctations has completed certification as a SureScripts Certified Solution™. Through the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange™, operated by SureScripts, DocPatient.com users will now be able to electronically and securely exchange prescription information with community pharmacies.
This includes prescription refill requests, which physicians can receive via their office computer instead of their fax machine. Refill authorizations, or denials, can then be electronically communicated back to the pharmacy with a just a few clicks of a computer mouse, thereby eliminating many of the faxes and phone calls associated with the traditional refill process. New prescriptions can also be sent electronically, directly to pharmacy computers before a patient ever leaves their physician’s office.
In 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that more than 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by medication errors. In the same report, the IOM recommended that all prescriptions be written and received electronically by the year 2010.
Doctations, which has already integrated services on DocPatient.com for healthcare providers, patients, doctors, medical transcriptionists and medical billers, provides a secure platform for communication and information retrieval between patients, doctors and healthcare providers. With the addition of SureScripts, physicians visiting DocPatient.com will be able to find important prescription information they wouldn’t be able to get ahead of time without the service.
“Integrating SureScript’s Pharmacy Health Information Exchange™ into DocPatient.com’s existing clinical community allows the doctor-patient relationship more efficiency,” said Dr. Louis Cornacchia III, M.D., F.A.C.S., and President and CEO of Doctations, Inc. “Having an online prescription service tied-in with our existing services brings us one step closer to integrating that relationship.”
About Doctations, Inc.
Doctations™ Inc., is a company dedicated to creating innovative new, internet-based means of transacting healthcare. The goal is to make healthcare more accessible to patients, and to substantially improve the process of generating medical documentation in all venues of healthcare: the physician’s private office, the physician group’s office, the ambulatory surgery center, and hospitals. We bring users the benefit of electronic medical records without the burden or expense of difficult-to-use software. We also believe that free-market forces with appropriate government regulation is the best means of achieving improved doctor-patient relationships have concluded that the internet provides an excellent means for achieving this vision and for catalyzing change that will improve healthcare for patients and doctors.
For more information, please visit: www.doctations.com.
About SureScripts
Founded by the pharmacy industry in 2001, SureScripts® operates the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange™, which facilitates the secure electronic transmission of prescription information between physicians and pharmacists and provides access to lifesaving information about patients during emergencies or routine care. Working collaboratively with health plans, health systems, technology vendors and health policy leaders, SureScripts is committed to improving the safety, efficiency, and quality of the prescribing process. More information about SureScripts is available at www.surescripts.com.
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