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Prescription Renewals Management
Comprehensive prescription renewals management solution
Prescription Renewals Management Solutions
Numerous renewal requests come through daily and are added to an already substantial workload for a clinician. These labor-intensive requests require thorough reviews of patient histories, potential adjustments to medications, and coordination with pharmacies, patients, and insurance companies. Additional administrative burdens like this lead to increased burnout and potential medication errors.
Trained pharmacists ensure safety and quality.
AssuRxTM is a comprehensive software solution used by IKS Health’s team of trained physicians and pharmacists to deliver a centralized, standardized, and expedited process for prescription renewals that adheres to drug-class protocols. Every medication renewal request is evaluated based on customized protocols for general appropriateness, safety, and clinical relevance. Trained pharmacists validate all complex prescription renewal requests to ensure safety and quality.
Advantages of Prescription Renewals Management:
- Standardized protocols for prescription renewals; improving patient safety and reducing potential medical errors
- Improves turnaround time as 99% of prescription renewals are processed in 24 hours
- Saves 70% of clinician time spent on prescription renewal requests
AssuRx Key Benefits
Ensures Patient Safety
Every prescription renewal request is evaluated against drug-class based protocols to ensure required laboratory results, office visits, and other prerequisites are met. A pharmacist processes complex renewal requests to ensure patient safety.
Saves Staff Time
Saves time and effort for clinicians and medical staff while improving patient engagement and physician satisfaction.
Leads to Revenue Upsides
AssuRx increases the ancillary revenue by assigning prescriptions requests and recommending lab tests or office appointments for clinician review.
Cost Savings
Enhances operational insights on prescription renewal management and cuts down on staff and clinician time spent on renewal requests by 70%, saving healthcare organization's cost.
Prescription Renewals Management FAQs
Our software aggregates all renewal requests and performs checks to ensure safety and clinical efficacy, flagging exceptions separately. An evaluation is performed against drug-class based protocols to ensure required prerequisites are met. Medication orders are updated in the EHR based on relevant and defined criteria, and renewal requests are queued for any required clinical decisions and final sign-off by the physician.
More than 95% of non-controlled primary care medications prescribed for >90 days are covered, and we collaborate with clinical/pharmacy champions to configure additional protocols. Our drug class scope includes allergy, anticoagulants, antidepressants, antiepileptic, antihypertensives, asthma/COPD, birth control, cholesterol, diabetes, DMARDs non bio and biologics, GI, hormone replacement therapy, migraine, miscellaneous with and without monitoring, NSAIDs, and thyroid.
We remove the administrative chores from clinicians so they can focus on patient care. By providing timely prescription renewals and reducing medication errors with standardized protocols, we ensure patients have the medication they need when they need it. We also provide increased visibility to clinicians on prescription trends to identify potential patient safety issues.