Oh yes, and of course there would always be 3 different sigs in those 3 spots lol
If the hospitals absorbed the costs, that would be fine. Instead they decide to push part of it on the pharmacies. The main hospital in the city informed us about a year ago that on 1/1/11 they will move to solely eRx prescribing and that if we want to do business with them we have to be fully complient with eRx.
So we now have to update all of the computers in the company, purchase a whole new Rx software package (ours is in house) all at once. Granted, corp should have been on the ball, but it still blows.
Then there is the cost of actually transmitting and recieving a Rx. Most places charge a pharmacy about $.50 per prescription. If there's an error and you have to send it back... well theres another $.50. And then another $.50 to recieve it back.
When you're making sometimes barely over a dollar on a script, that very quickly eats up what little margin you already have. All for a service which is really not needed. We have far far more problem with eRx based scripts than with hand written ones (namely with picking wrong drugs or incorrect directions).
I have yet to see the benefit yet personally.