Newbie Questions

[yeyeman9]

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I have a few newbie quesitons, probably not the first one with newbie questions here 😛 haha. I know NOTHING about medicine, so it is obvious that perhaps this questions will seem pretty silly but I need to know for a project I am working on. So any help from you guys will be greatly appreciated:

1)How exactly does the written-prescription to pharmacy system works? I mean, how does the pharmacists know it is a real doctor who is sending the prescription, and what is the process like? i.e. do you have to enter some kind of info into the computer for something...etc.

2)Do doctors pay for those little prescriptions notes where they write? If so how much?

3)approx. how many pharmacies are there in the US?

That is pretty much it for now. Basically i am working on a system to make this whole written prescription to pharmacists easier. Easier for everyone, the doctors, the pharmacists and must of all the patient.

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.

Cheers!
Jose

 

[Sparda29]

I have a few newbie quesitons, probably not the first one with newbie questions here 😛 haha. I know NOTHING about medicine, so it is obvious that perhaps this questions will seem pretty silly but I need to know for a project I am working on. So any help from you guys will be greatly appreciated:

1)How exactly does the written-prescription to pharmacy system works? I mean, how does the pharmacists know it is a real doctor who is sending the prescription, and what is the process like? i.e. do you have to enter some kind of info into the computer for something...etc.

2)Do doctors pay for those little prescriptions notes where they write? If so how much?

3)approx. how many pharmacies are there in the US?

That is pretty much it for now. Basically i am working on a system to make this whole written prescription to pharmacists easier. Easier for everyone, the doctors, the pharmacists and must of all the patient.

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.

Cheers!
Jose

#1 - The state where the physician practice issues official prescription pads to the physicians.
#2 - I don't know.
#3 - Tens of thousands.

 

[yeyeman9]

Thanks sparda!

So basically the pads they have are somehow official, therefore the pharmacies know if they are real or not?

If that's the case, is there any other way the pharmacies can determine if they are real or not? Some sort of doctors license or something? lets say a doctor emails a pharmacy with a prescription, can the pharmacy somehow tell whether it is a real doctor or not and can they accept it as an official prescription?

 

[fauxden]

Looking to write your own scripts or something....? Hah

 

[yeyeman9]

Looking to write your own scripts or something....? Hah

Lol. Seems like that doesn't it? I hadn't even thought about the fact that it sounded like that 😛. But no, I am not 🙂.

 

[Dr Wario]

I think it is legal for scripts to be written on toilet paper, at least it seems that way after I get them from many of my patients.

 

[eagles22]

I have a few newbie quesitons, probably not the first one with newbie questions here 😛 haha. I know NOTHING about medicine, so it is obvious that perhaps this questions will seem pretty silly but I need to know for a project I am working on. So any help from you guys will be greatly appreciated:

1)How exactly does the written-prescription to pharmacy system works? I mean, how does the pharmacists know it is a real doctor who is sending the prescription, and what is the process like? i.e. do you have to enter some kind of info into the computer for something...etc.

2)Do doctors pay for those little prescriptions notes where they write? If so how much?

3)approx. how many pharmacies are there in the US?

That is pretty much it for now. Basically i am working on a system to make this whole written prescription to pharmacists easier. Easier for everyone, the doctors, the pharmacists and must of all the patient.

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.

Cheers!
Jose

The system already exists. There's an electronic prescription system that many doctors use.

How are you going to try to improve a system that's existed for quite a while that you know nothing about?

 

[Ackj]

A lot of this will vary by state as well. NY has some pretty specific rules about their official prescription pads and e-prescribing. I can't really say about other states, although I have seen some out of state prescriptions that look nowhere near official (although apparently are).

 

[yeyeman9]

I actually didn't know a system like this already existed. Thats a shame.

I am from Puerto Rico, and that actually doesn't exist here just yet.

Could you tell me which ones are the most used? If there is more than one...cause I found this one: http://nationalerx.com/

Thanks.

 

[spacecowgirl]

We use
http://www.surescripts.com/