ePrescribing provides a relatively low cost environment enabling providers with limited resources to adopt technology. ePrescribing improves the level of care for all your members by providing easy access to a healthplan’s formulary, eligibility and member prescription history.

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ePrescribe Florida Steering Committee

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF)
• Humana
• UnitedHealthcare
• AvMed

ePrescribe Florida Advisory Council

• CIGNA HealthCare
• Aetna

Save Time

• Tuffs Health Plan – Savings of up to two hours per day for physicians and office personnel and one hour per day for pharmacists. 1
• Henry Ford Foundation - Over 70K prescriptions were changed or canceled due to formulary warnings 3
• AHRQ - Estimated 30% of all non e-Prescriptions require pharmacy callbacks, e-Prescribing will reduce pharmacy callbacks by 80%. 7

Save Money

• Tuffs Health Plan - Cost savings of up to $.40 per member per month (PMPM) due to an increase of preferred and generic prescribing 1
• Henry Ford Foundation  - Of 1.7 million prescriptions sent electronically in 2006 Generic use rate improved from 57% to 68% which was calculated to have saved $1.44 million 3
• Milliman / RxHub - Primary care physicians using electronic prescribing have the potential to generate annual generic drug savings of $175 to $260 per member per year. 5

Save Lives

• Tuffs Health Plan – 8.9 fewer safety errors per physician per year 1
• Henry Ford Foundation  - 1.7 million prescriptions sent electronically in 2006.150K prescriptions were canceled due to drug-drug interaction warnings, 11K prescriptions canceled due to drug-allergy warnings and$540K estimated savings from reduced ADEs.3
• Institute of Medicine (IOM) - 1.5 million Americans are injured by medication errors. 25% of these injuries are preventable. 4
• AHRQ - ePrescribing systems can avoid more than 2 million ADEs annually, of which 130,000 are life-threatening. 7