E-Prescribing while travelling out of the United States

We often get the question of whether or not E-Prescribing is possible outside of the Unites States.  Generally, the answer is no.  It all depends on which Country you are visiting and if it is blocked by the servers that deploy ScriptSure and ID.me service.  We cannot say with absolute certainty you will be able to.  Officially, ID.me application does not service IPs external to the U.S.  That means you won't get your approval request to your phone for controlled medication orders.  

The ScriptSure application is accessible from the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Bahamas as examples, but Eastern European countries are blocked (as well as several other Countries).

What to do when if you will be travelling?

Most providers will ask someone in the U.S. to cover their patient medication renewal requests while out of Country, but that may not be an option for everyone.

Some providers have opted to proactively write prescriptions for impending renewals and set the FILL DATE to a date in the future.  You can send a prescription to the pharmacy today and then set the fill date to 30 days from now.  The pharmacy will receive it, but not fill it until that fill date. The fill date is on the prescription preview window (circled in red below).  This allows to write prescriptions now and send them for medication renewals that you know your patients will need.  This may be option for many.

As a side note, the electronic prescribing network is only configured for U.S. Pharmacies and U.S. providers, so you cannot prescribe to a foreign (outside of the U.S.) pharmacy.