$50 Prescription Transfer Coupon From Rite Aid

[go4reward]

Want to earn a free extra bucks if you have any prescription?
http://www.riteaid.com/pharmacy/prescription_transfer.jsf

Its deadline is good until 3/31/09

[sosocratic]

If you want to chase deals and hop from pharmacy to pharmacy then that is understandable. However, if you are going to do that then you should move all of your prescriptions and fill all at the same pharmacy until you move them all to somewhere else again. Review for medication interactions is an important safety check that cannot be done if the prescriptions are spread out across several different pharmacies. Doing this with several different doctors writing them is a real recipe for disaster.

[Investar]

Review for medication interactions is an important safety check that cannot be done if the prescriptions are spread out across several different pharmacies. Doing this with several different doctors writing them is a real recipe for disaster.

I'm straying off the subject here (Slick Deals) but -- I long for the day my Doctor walks into the exam room with a laptop rather than a folder of dog-eared papers. My records will be searchable. As it is now, I have to remind him of this or that and try to remember about when it was so he can find his notes! And when he sends the prescription to the pharmacy of my choice thru the laptop (and my copy prints out on my home computer) the e-doc can carry codes to the relevant interactive warnings. The doctor should be aware of all the drugs I take, regardless their source. It makes no sense the pharmacies are our gatekeepers here. I know there is a lot of (well founded) concern about medical privacy but as it is now, the medical profession's system is working with a system three decades out of date. 

[sosocratic]

About 25% of docs are using electronic records now and there are internet based prescribing websites that any can sign up for at any time with little to no purchase of equipment. Any basic prescription program should be able to check for interactions however all programs miss some. The problem is that interactions cannot be checked if all the meds are not in the database. That happens commonly when there are several different prescribers. At least if you use the same pharmacy for all prescriptions then someone will have the complete list.

The searchability of the records varies quite a bit between products. The real problem is that none of them communicate with each other. The real benefits of EMR's will come when all the docs can access all the information. That is where the government is going wrong with this. They are pushing for everyone to get the systems when they should be concentrating on making a universal standard by which they all communicate analogous to HTML for the Internet. All docs should be able to pull up all of your records using whatever product they have chosen to use just as we all can see this web page whether we are using a Mac, OE, netscape, or firefox for browsers. What we have now (and what Obama is trying to force everyone to buy more of) amounts to little more than a way to make nicely typed notes (which then will have to be printed and scanned into the next doc's system).

[go4reward]

The only problem is: not all doctors are subscribe this universal database. The coupon is good for people have no complicated prescriptions like you have mentioned.

[sosocratic]

The only problem is: not all doctors are subscribe this universal database. The coupon is good for people have no complicated prescriptions like you have mentioned.

No, the problem is that there is no universal database.

The coupon in not the problem. The problem is the fragmentation of the information. In some cases, if you are not careful, the coupon can increase this fragmentation. If you keep all of the information together, by transferring all of your prescriptions in this case, then there is no problem. If you fill your prescriptions at different pharmacies based on the prices of different meds then you may be creating an unsafe situation for yourself.