Sorry about the delay in my posts, I am now in New York. The hospital I will be working at has the eclipse system. A change from the cerner system, but as learned in a previous post, there are many types of EMR systems. So in this post I will talk about the eRx system. One of the features of an EMR is the ability to send prescriptions directly to the pharmacy of choice. Right now all scripts except for narcotics can be prescribed online. There are penalties from Medicare and Medicaid if prescribers do not meet the set number. There are exceptions for physicians who work in a field where they prescribe mostly narcotics, like anesthesiologists. This was a recent major breakthrough, since previously only physicians who were in rural areas without internet, or had few pharmacies in the area where exempted. The next major breakthrough will be when narcotics are able to be prescribed electronically. Right now, federally you are allowed to erx narcotics with a program that fits the requirements. Many states, however, have not yet approved narcotic erx because they don't have the correct system.