Electronic prescription is used because it can keep files for doctors' prescriptions, and if anything happens in the future, it can give doctors and patients an explanation, which also greatly reduces the waste of paper.

Second, the role of electronic prescription is:

The separation of medicine and medicine is an important part of the new medical reform in China. As an important means of separating medicine from medicine, electronic prescription circulation can enable patients to purchase medicine by prescription, and guide some patients who come back to the hospital for further medication to the outside of the hospital, thus improving the utilization rate of hospital resources.

Third, the advantages of electronic prescription:

Prescription format is standardized, prescription handwriting is neat and clear, and it contains comprehensive information. Moreover, it can provide doctors with a lot of reference information through the doctor workstation, such as pharmacological action, usage and dosage, incompatibility, adverse reactions, precautions, pharmacy inventory, drug prices and other information.

Information such as specifications and units of drugs are also automatically prompted by the computer, which avoids writing mistakes. At the same time, the doctor workstation can also provide the patient's past medication, which is convenient for doctors to inquire and serves as an important reference for doctors to use drugs.