A part of the health reform is to have medical health prescription medication computerized and connected throughout the country. Whether this is a creative and innovative achievement or a royal disaster is not known. This is a new part of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that was set to begin on November 30, 2010.
Computerizing all medical health care prescription medications is an effort to reduce the number of mistakes on the part of the pharmacies in filling out the prescribed prescription medication. Many times the pharmacist has difficulty reading the handwriting of the medical health physician and loses time when telephone calls are necessary to fill properly the universal health care prescription.
Speculation is skeptical at best because most individuals do not associate with one pharmacy. Some of the perceived difficulties will occur with those individuals who only make an appointment to visit with a medical health physician once every few years when they become ill.
Those individuals who will be helped by this new computerization of medical prescriptions will be those individuals who are chronically ill or have a long-term disability that requires regular medical health physician office visits. The health insurance providers are already aware of what can happen, but this is not in effect yet.
However, even though the medical health prescription will be computerized still does not mean the patient will purchase the prescription. When the patient finds that the medical prescription is more expensive than what they can afford, what happens next? Will the pharmacist then call the united health care physician and report the patient for refusing the medical health prescription?
Supposedly, computerizing all medical health prescription medication will also reduce the opportunity of allergic reactions a patient may have to a particular prescription. Once everything is on a computer database the opportunity for error will be reduced, but it will not disappear.
The cross checking will help to reduce the amount of abuse that is rampant throughout society today, but it will not eliminate the problem. However, it will be the private hospitals and the community hospitals that will be on the front lines when this phase of the self-employed health insurance reform bill goes into effect.
Should this work out well for the private hospitals and the community hospitals, the next phase will be to have this connected with the various medical health physicians who are in private practice and through the dental practices.