Advantages of e-Prescription over hand-written prescriptions

Electronic prescriptions have the following advantages to offer over traditional handwritten ones:

1. They remove the perils of illegible handwriting
2. Trap errors such as drug-drug interactions by automatically triggering alerts
3. Give physicians ready access to medication histories
4. They can provide Pre-stored prescription templates by disease type, which can potentially save the physician time by not having to rewrite the same for a different patient.
5. Cheaper and alternate drug option prompts: Applications are designed to provide cheaper alternatives such as generics or another drug from a different class but similar action, which can mean savings for the patients.