Electronic prescribing or e-prescribing is a digital application that securely provides bidirectional electronic information exchange between payers/PBMs, pharmacies, prescribing providers, directly or through an intermediary network. E-prescribing includes routing prescriptions that ensures prescribed drug against the patient's health formulary of covered drugs, obtains prior authorization, gains any known patient drug allergies, identifiesany drug-drug interactions, provides access to patients' medication history from external sources, and sends or receives acknowledgement of prescriptions filled. The major capability of e-prescribing is to support important process in care delivery, such as medication management, medication reconciliation, and prior authorization, this in turn is driving the e-prescribing market growth.
Factors that drive the growth of the global e-prescribing market include rise in focus of developed government initiatives and incentive programs toward adoption of e-prescribing solutions, rise in focus on the reduction of fraud and abuse of controlled substances, and increase in need to curtail escalating healthcare costs. However, e-prescribing solutions are costly to integrate in the EHR or HIT systems and rise in concerns associated with security & workflow of digital healthcare records are major factors that hinder the e-prescribing market growth. Furthermore, increase in development of healthcare infrastructure and rise in adoption of e-prescribing in the developing countries across Asia-Pacific are opportunistic factors of the global e-prescribing market.
The e-prescribingmarketis segmented on the basis of component,deployment,end user, and region. Bycomponent, it is categorized into solutionsand services.On the basis of deployment, it is divided on-premise and cloud. Depending on end user, it is classifiedinto hospitals, office-based physicians, and pharmaceuticals.By region, the market is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.
The market players operating in the e-prescribing marketinclude Allscripts Healthcare, LLC, Athenahealth, Inc., Cerner Corporation, Change Healthcare, DrFirst.com, Inc., eClinicalWorks, Epic Systems Corporation, Medical Information Technology, Inc., Practice Fusion, Inc., and Surescripts.
KEY BENEFITS FOR STAKEHOLDERS
- The study provides an in-depth analysis of the current & future trends of the market to elucidate the imminent investment pockets.
- Information about key drivers, restraints, and opportunities and their impact analysis on the global e-prescribing market size is provided.
- Porter's five forces analysis illustrates the potency of the buyers and suppliers operating in the global e-prescribing industry.
- The quantitative analysis of the market from 2018 to 2026 is provided to determine the global e-prescribing market potential.
KEY MARKET SEGMENTS
By Component
- Solutions
- Services

By Deployment
- On-premise
- Cloud

By End User
- Hospitals
- Office-based Physicians
- Pharmaceuticals

By Region
- North America
o U.S.
o Canada
- Europe
o Germany
o France
o UK
o Rest of Europe
- Asia-Pacific
o Japan
o China
o India
o Rest of Asia-Pacific
- LAMEA
o Latin America
o Middle East
o Africa

KEY MARKET PLAYERS
- Allscripts Healthcare, LLC
- Athenahealth, Inc.
- Cerner Corporation
- Change Healthcare
- DrFirst.com, Inc.
- eClinicalWorks
- Epic Systems Corporation
- Medical Information Technology, Inc.
- Practice Fusion, Inc.
- Surescripts