Mail-order pharmacies send out clinical services

For best quality, send only original orders to pharmacies.

Vol. 34 No. 5 • May 2009 • P&T® 227 Interestingly, one of the features of document-imaging technology—the ability to magnify the order image—might actually be contributing to the problem. Although magnification can sometimes be helpful, it should not be necessary when clearly written original documents are scanned. However, magnification has become somewhat of a crutch or a work around for bare...

The role of mail service pharmacies.

A comparison of costs of Medicare Part D prescriptions dispensed at retail and mail order pharmacies.

BACKGROUND Plan sponsors encourage the use of mail order pharmacies because they believe mail order dispensing will lower their prescription drug costs. Health plans and pharmacy benefit management companies (PBMs) usually offer patients substantially lower copayments to incentivize them to use mail order pharmacies. A number of health plans and PBMs now require patients to use these pharmacies...

Assessment of ePrescription quality: an observational study at three mail-order pharmacies

BACKGROUND The introduction of electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) or ePrescriptions in ambulatory health care has been suggested to have a positive impact on the prescribing and dispensing processes. Thereby, implying that ePrescribing can improve safety, quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. In December 2007, 68% of all new prescriptions were transferred electronically in Sweden...

Out-of-net host addresses for mail

There is now interest in sustantially extending the scope of the computer mail system used in the ARPANET to allow communication of voice, fax, graphics, as well as text information between users in different networks as wells as within the ARPANET. The discussion of a transition from the current ARPANET sndmsg environment and mechanisms to a more general internet environment and richer mechani...