If you were forced to move from your home following a disaster, you may have run out of medications. Or you might not remember which prescription drugs you are taking or the proper dosage. Often, evacuees are unable to contact their regular doctor, clinic, or hospital. In many cases, paper medical records have been destroyed in the disaster.
It is because of this dilemma that ICERx.org was created.
ICERx.org is a secure, online service that allows licensed doctors and pharmacists anywhere in the United States to help you get information about your prescription medicines. It will help your doctors and pharmacists know which drugs you have been prescribed, the correct dosages, whether you have refills available, which doctor prescribed them, and which pharmacies have information about your prescription.
If you are an evacuee from an area affected by a disaster and you need to renew your prescriptions or get a new one, please let any doctor or pharmacist know that ICERx.org is available for their use.
ICERx.org was created by a unique collaborative of national charities, private businesses, the American Medical Association, and federal, state, and local governments to help people get vital medicines during times of disaster.
