Electronic Prescription

By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter
(HealthDay News) — Starting next year, doctors can earn additional money from Medicare if they use electronic prescribing systems, U.S. health officials said Monday.
The bonus program, which will continue for four years, is designed to streamline the prescription process and cut down on errors. In 2009 and 2010, Medicare [...]

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Posted June 30, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Ann Carrns
Second of an occasional series on health information technology.
Fayetteville, Ark. – Dr. Marek Durakiewicz initially welcomed the opportunity to send prescriptions to drugstores electronically, using free computer equipment provided by a state pilot program.
The chief of staff at Hickman Community Hospital in Centerville, Tenn., Durakiewicz recognized the potential benefits of “e-prescribing.” [...]

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Posted June 29, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

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Posted June 29, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

A new report from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s research arm predicts that U.S. hospitals will spend about $4.7 billion on health IT this year and about $6.8 billion by 2014, Health Data Management reports.
For the report, titled “Essentials of the U.S. Hospital Market, 4th Edition,” HIMSS Analytics surveyed 5,100 hospitals.
The researchers projected [...]

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Posted June 26, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Adoption of electronic prescribing has increased significantly since 2006, but further action must be taken to continue its growth, according to e-prescribing network Surescripts’ annual National Progress Report on E-Prescribing, Healthcare IT News reports.
Report Details, Findings
The report details the status of e-prescribing adoption and use in the U.S. from 2006 through 2008.
According to the report, [...]

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Posted June 26, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

The percentage of medical prescriptions routed electronically from a physician’s office to a pharmacy hit 6.4 percent in North Carolina in 2008, giving the state a sixth-place national ranking, according to survey by St. Paul, Minn.-based Surescripts, a medical networking company.
Surescripts, formed as a result of the 2008 merger of RxHub and Surescripts, has been [...]

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Posted June 24, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Tennessee posted the second best improvement among states last year in use of computers by doctors to send prescriptions electronically to pharmacists, according to the latest ranking by the nation’s largest e-prescribing network.
Overall, health-care providers statewide issued more than 1.78 million electronic prescriptions in 2008, representing more than 4 percent of prescriptions eligible to be [...]

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Posted June 24, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Consulting firm predicts 75 percent adoption of e-prescribing by 2014
By Nancy Ferris
The stimulus law’s incentives for providers to adopt health information technology will double the rate of e-prescribing and result in a $22 billion reduction in drug and medical costs in the next decade, according to a study commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association.
If [...]

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Posted June 22, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Lorraine Savage
Everyone, it seems, wants doctors to e-prescribe. Physicians are facing an onslaught of government incentives, state and local urgings, and healthcare and consumer organizations’ guilt to make the transition from antiquated paper prescription pads to 21st century electronic prescription systems.
Medicare Incentive Program
The biggest step toward universal e-prescribing was the passage on [...]

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Posted June 22, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

By Kate Berry and Robert Tennant, MA
MGMA Connexion — More and more medical groups are adopting electronic prescribing (eprescribing) technology. Writing and transmitting prescriptions electronically, rather than by pen and paper or fax, can help a medical group significantly improve patient safety and simplify administrative processes. Both the public and private sectors have sought to [...]

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Posted June 22, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription