The survey found that only 24 percent of seniors think rural doctors should be exempt from having to use e-prescribing.

Of the seniors polled, 21 percent take four to five prescriptions each month to treat chronic conditions and 28 percent take more than five each month.  Only 14 percent said that they did not take any prescriptions.

Due to the amount of prescriptions being taken by those polled, 50 percent said that they often worry about negative reactions to new drugs.

"The E-MEDS Act addresses the single greatest barrier to e-prescribing adoption: lack of urgency in the physician community to modernize the way they prescribe. Unless all physicians face real consequences for continuing business as usual, few will begin e-prescribing and seniors will pay the price," said PCMA president and CEO Mark Merritt.