Electronic Prescription

By, Nicholas Christiano Jr.
There has been considerable discussion on the federal stimulus program and the impact it will have in bringing about an improved patient care model through the use of technology. This anticipates care providers having access to electronic health records (EHRs) that can communicate, or “interoperate,” with other health providers and health systems [...]

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Posted March 30, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Neil Versel
It’s a small study group, but the results are eye-opening nonetheless: Primary-care practices cut their prescription error rates from 42.5 percent to 6.6 percent in a one-year period by adopting e-prescribing technology.
That’s the finding of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, as reported in the Journal of General [...]

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Posted March 24, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Surescripts, The Nation’s E-Prescription Network, today announced that it has lowered the cost of e-prescribing services used millions of times each day by physicians, pharmacists and payers nationwide. After six years of no price increases, the announcement illustrates how replacing a manual, paper-based process with health information technology creates a more efficient and, ultimately, lower-cost [...]

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Posted March 18, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

There is increasing acceptance of e-prescribing in Europe and system sales should more than triple in the next six years, according to a report on the technology by market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
According to the analysis, the European market for e-prescription systems, including integrated and stand-alone e-prescription systems, was worth $95.4 million in 2008 [...]

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Posted March 11, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

E-prescribing in the U.S. witnessed an 181 percent increase as 190 milion prescriptions were routed electronically in 2009 versus 68 million in 2008, according to a report from e-prescription network Surescripts, in its 2009 progess report on e-prescribing. Of the 190 million, more than four million e-prescriptions were routed to mail order pharmacies.
Eighteen percent of [...]

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Posted March 8, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Weill Cornell Medical College-Led Study Is One of the First to Compare E-Prescriptions to Handwritten Prescriptions in Community-Based Practices

Should doctors around the country use e-prescribing to decrease prescription errors? A study led by physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College found that health care providers using an electronic system to write prescriptions were seven [...]

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Posted March 3, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription