HIXNY e-RX

HIXNY e-RX e-prescribing solution is offered by the local health care organizations you know and trust -- the hospitals, physician organizations, and health plans that constitute HIXNY membership and are committed to improving health care delivery, promoting patient safety, and lowering health care costs in our community.

Benefits to Providers

E-prescribing allows physicians to use handheld or personal computers to review drug and formulary coverage for a patient, and write and transmit prescriptions to a local pharmacy or printer. HIXNY e-RX offers faster, easier prescribing with comprehensive patient and drug information available to the physician.

  • E-prescribing is integrated with a Master Patient Index (MPI) showing patient medication history, eligibility, formulary status, and clinical decision support - all available real time from the system for faster, more accurate decision making and less data entry.
  • Workflow is streamlined by the ability to re-fill all of a patient's prescriptions at once and to designate agents to use the system such as nurses who participate in the practice's current workflow.
  • Drug interaction alerts, formulary information and other messaging help ensure accuracy as well as patient safety and satisfaction.
  • A free web-based application along with financial incentives through the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act make HIXNY e-RX a smart economic decision.

Benefits to Physician Practices 

Using HIXNY e-RX, physician practices can improve the quality of patient care, increase patient satisfaction, and increase efficiency in their offices. Staff will pull fewer charts, send fewer faxes, and make fewer telephone calls - all leading to time savings.

Benefits to Patients

HIXNY e-RX is a convenient, safe and cost-effective way for patients to have their prescriptions managed.

  • There are no paper prescriptions to handle or misplace and less waiting time at the pharmacy when picking up prescriptions.
  • Many patient safeguards are built into the system. The system performs a Drug Utilization Review (DUR) and delivers alerts to the prescribing physician if the patient has known allergies related to the prescribed medication or there are potential adverse interactions with other medicines the patient is taking.
  • Patients can save money because the physician can easily select medications that comply with the patient's formulary plan.

HIXNY e-RX Facts

  • HIXNY e-RX is conveniently offered as a standalone e-prescribing solution for non-HIXNY members, or integrated with the Health Information Exchange (HIE) for current members of HIXNY.
  • HIXNY e-RX is certified as a qualified e-prescribing system by SureScripts-RxHub, meeting established functionality standards for e-prescribing, e-refills, prescription history, patient eligibility, and formulary.
  • HIXNY e-RX is free into 2010 for physicians operating within the HIXNY upstate New York market area