By Heather B. Hayes
The state of Delaware credits a decision a year ago to fund e-prescribing start-up costs for the top Medicaid providers in the state for a 150 percent jump in the number of Medicaid providers now using the e-health service.
The top-down approach, which included offering e-prescribing technology and training services to the top [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, Medicaid
Posted December 24, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Medicare Incentive, Medicare Law
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
Rhode Island is the first state in the U.S. to begin tracking swine flu outbreaks using e-prescription data.
State public health officials are electronically monitoring possible H1NI outbreaks based on e-prescription data from pharmacies that dispense Tamiflu and three other antiviral drugs used to treat seasonal flu and swine flu.
One hundred percent of [...]
Tags: H1NI, SureScripts, swine flu
Posted December 17, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By Kyle Hardy
A group of Virginia-based healthcare executives, pharmacists and other stakeholders has launched a new Web site to push the commonwealth toward e-prescribing.
CommonwealthRx, which was launched earlier this year to increase the volume of e-prescribing in Virginia, rolled out its new Web site at the annual meeting of the Virginia Healthcare Information and Management [...]
Tags: CommonwealthRx, E-Prescribing, MedVirginia
Posted December 16, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Hospital
By Brian Robinson
Electronic prescribing, often described as the lowest hanging fruit in health IT, could be set to make a big leap forward as organizations in states such as Iowa look to provide free e-prescribing services for physicians and federal legislation starts to drive nationwide adoption of the technology.
The Iowa program, called ePrescribe Iowa, is [...]
Tags: Allscripts, Electronic Prescribing, HealthNet
Posted December 9, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
Bernie Monegain, Editor
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The number of physicians using electronic prescribing will have more than doubled in 2009, executives of the e-prescribing network Surescripts said.
More than 140,000 – 23 percent of all office-based physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the United States – are e-prescribing today, officials said. And at the [...]
Tags: Electronic Prescribing, prescribers, SureScripts
Posted December 8, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Hospital
Bernie Monegain, Editor
Rhode Island Gov. Donald L. Carcieri announced Monday that the state has launched a new system for tracking swine flu.
The system makes use of prescribing data provided by the state’s pharmacies via a secure electronic link. The tracking initiative is enabled by the state’s success with e-prescribing and the digital healthcare infrastructure available [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, SureScripts, swine flu
Posted December 4, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Hospital
