• Improving the Prescribing Process

    What can PrescribeIT® do for you? Watch our video to learn about e-prescribing, including the benefits for clinicians and patients.

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  • PrescribeIT® 2021 at a Glance

    2021 was a year to build, reflect and prepare for the realities of a post-pandemic health system.

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    With our online courses for prescribers and pharmacists, you can learn more about PrescribeIT® and build your knowledge about e-prescribing.

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Canada Health Infoway is working with Health Canada, the provinces and territories, and industry stakeholders to operate and maintain a national e-prescribing service known as PrescribeIT®.

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e-Prescribing: Finding Balance Between In-Person and Virtual Care

More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians like myself have gained experience providing virtual care to their patients. With the lifting of social distancing protocols also allowing for more in-person appointments where needed, an optimal balance is beginning to take shape.

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Canadians’ Perceptions of e-Prescribing

We live in an age where technology enables people to instantly communicate with one another. So, it may come as a surprise to some that many prescriptions are still handwritten or printed and sent to pharmacies using a fax machine. In fact, a 2021 survey of Canadian physicians revealed 43% still use fax to send prescriptions.

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Enhancing the Safety and Integrity of Canada’s Health System

The pandemic has fast tracked the role technology plays in health care and it has presented Canada with an opportunity to be a global innovator. One way Canada is making strides is the way prescriptions are written and shared, which is being transformed by PrescribeIT.

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Modernizing Collaboration

Technology has changed most forms of communication. So why are you still using a fax machine? PrescribeIT® replaces missed phone calls and stray faxes with clinical communication — straight from your electronic medical record or pharmacy management system.

 

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Peace of Mind

PrescribeIT® is the peace of mind of knowing your prescription is transmitted electronically directly from your doctor’s electronic medical record (EMR) to your pharmacy’s management system, increasing medication safety.

 

Seamless Integration

PrescribeIT® seamlessly integrates with existing EMRs and pharmacy management systems.

Fewer Medication-related Errors

PrescribeIT® reduces the need to transcribe handwritten, emailed and auto-faxed prescriptions.

Patient Choice of Pharmacy

Patients direct prescriptions to the pharmacy of their choice.

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ELNA Medical Becomes the First Major Clinic Network in Canada to Rollout PrescribeIT®

Montreal — Canada Health Infoway (“Infoway”) and Montreal-based ELNA Medical (“ELNA”), Canada’s largest integrated network of medical clinics and owner of Medicentres Canada, are pleased to announce the rollout of the innovative PrescribeIT® e-prescribing service at all 26 Medicentres family care clinics throughout Alberta.

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PrescribeIT Continues to Gain Momentum and Achieve Significant Milestones

TORONTO — Canada Health Infoway’s (Infoway) PrescribeIT® service continues to experience significant growth in the number of retailers, prescribers, pharmacies and technology partners who have signed on to the service, bolstered by a commitment from all provinces and territories to make prescribing easier and more convenient for clinicians and patients.

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Canada Health Infoway and Loblaw Companies Limited Announce Rollout of PrescribeIT in Ontario and New Brunswick

(TORONTO) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw) are pleased to announce that Shoppers Drug Mart and Loblaw pharmacy locations in Ontario and New Brunswick are now enabled with PrescribeIT®, Infoway’s national e-prescribing service.

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Events

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