Figure 1.

Perceptions of the impact of e-prescribing on patient safety, overall and by e-prescribing technology solution, % of sample

The participant survey asked “how do electronic prescriptions (submitted by your computer directly to the pharmacy’s computer) compare to other prescription methods you use… in terms of patient safety?” From left to right, the dark grey bars represent the percentage of participants who responded “much better”, the light grey bars “somewhat better”, the white bars “no change”, and the black bars “somewhat worse.” No respondents indicated that electronic prescribing was “much worse” than other prescription methods in terms of patient safety.