Electronic Prescription

by Mark Sanchez | Business Review Western Michigan

He gave up the paper pad four years ago and now only writes prescriptions for patients electronically.

While Dr. Richard Smith can’t specifically quantify the results, he knows without any doubt that e-prescribing has generated efficiencies in his medical practice.

“As you accept it [...]

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Posted July 31, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Florida’s medical examiners recently reported that prescription medicines caused more deaths in 2008 than illicit drugs. The medical examiners also reported sharp increases in deaths caused by prescription tranquilizers and painkillers, such as Oxycodone and hydrocodone.
The results of the year-end report weren’t surprising. Since the middle of last year, physicians, pharmacists and law enforcement officials [...]

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

Zero-In RX is a one-stop shop for electronic prescribing information and resources for physicians

Earlier this year the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a new online learning center to provide physicians with the information and tools they need to make informed decisions about electronic prescribing (ePrescribing). Today, the AMA unveils enhanced tools for ePrescribing and [...]

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

State policymakers hope incentives help drive up adoption rates.
By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff.

A bill pending in Massachusetts has a goal of pushing more electronic prescribing in a state already tops in such activity.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Peter J. Koutoujian, would provide tax incentives to any corporation with licensed physicians that [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, e-prescribing technology, Electronic Prescribing, SureScripts
Posted July 27, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer

This month marks the one-year anniversary of the merger of the two largest electronic-prescribing exchanges, SureScripts and RxHub, creating a market-dominant, privately held, for-profit company just in time for the federal government to all but mandate that physicians e-prescribe.

So, how is the merger going? The answer depends [...]

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Posted July 24, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription

by June Q. Wu/Plain Dealer Reporter
Ohio doctors seem reluctant to give up their prescription pads, according to findings by Surescripts, the largest national prescription network.

The state lags far behind the nation’s leaders when it comes to sending prescriptions electronically over the network, which covers all major chain pharmacies, such as CVS and Walgreens, [...]

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

Plain Dealer Reporter
Ohio doctors seem reluctant to give up their prescription pads, according to findings by Surescripts, the largest national prescription network.

The state lags far behind the nation’s leaders when it comes to sending prescriptions electronically over the network, which covers all major chain pharmacies, such as CVS and Walgreens, as well as [...]

Tags: Doctors, E-Prescribing, e-prescriptions, electronic prescriptions, medical errors, SureScripts
Posted July 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

More physicians are transitioning to electronic prescribing as the number of incentives for doing so grows, the Wall Street Journal reports.

In the past year, the number of physicians prescribing medicines electronically has more than doubled to roughly 70,000, or about 12% of office-based physicians, the Journal reports.

Incentives
This month, CMS began offering a [...]

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Posted July 20, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Now all physicians can access guidance on everything from selecting a system to calculating incentive earnings.

By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff.
The American Medical Association has unveiled its enhanced online e-prescribing learning center and opened it up to all physicians.

The learning center, first launched April 1, offers a one-stop shop for physicians seeking information [...]

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Posted July 20, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

By Sally Gainsbury
Electronic prescribing systems that reduce the possibility of human error could cut clinical negligence claims by more than 70 per cent, according to US hospital chain Banner Health.

The company, which has worked with national IT programme supplier Cerner to evaluate the impact of its electronic prescribing system, said systems that reduced the [...]

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Posted July 16, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription