How to Renew a Prescription

If you need a renewal of a prescription when no more refills are available please contact your pharmacist

Doing so allows me to submit renewals electronically using a secure online server. The system prevents errors* in the following ways:

1. Prescriptions are always legible
2. The system checks doses and frequency against standards and warns me if I don’t prescribe properly
3. The system stores allergy information and alerts me if I try to prescribe a medication that you are allergic to.
4. The system checks for dangerous interactions between drugs.
5. The system keeps an accurate record of your prescriptions
6. In the event of a drug recall the system allows me to promptly notify all affected patients.

At this point nearly all prescription renewals from my practice are submitted electronically.

* The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science has reported that as many as 100,000 deaths occur in the United States each year due to preventable medical errors. Medication errors are a large portion of the total. Medication-related errors occur frequently in hospitals. But hospital patients represent only a fraction of the total population at risk of experiencing a medication-related error. In 1998, nearly 2.5 billion prescriptions were dispensed by U.S. pharmacies at a cost of about $92 billion. Numerous studies document errors in prescribing medications; dispensing by pharmacists; and unintentional nonadherence on the part of the patient. Medication errors account for one out of 131 outpatient deaths.