By Neil Versel
Just as predicted at the end of 2008, e-prescribing volume nearly tripled in 2009, according to prescription transaction network Surescripts. And the growth has picked up this year.
Surescripts reports that U.S. prescribers wrote 191 million electronic prescriptions in 2009, up from 68 million a year earlier. That accounts for about 12 percent of [...]
Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, SureScripts
Posted April 27, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
Health care industry experts expect recent policy changes to spur more physicians to start prescribing medications electronically in the coming years, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Trends in E-Prescribing
A recent report from the electronic prescribing network Surescripts found that the number of prescriptions submitted electronically increased from 68 million in [...]
Tags: CMS, DEA, E-Prescribing
Posted April 22, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By Timothy W. Martin
Doctors are increasingly prescribing medications electronically, abandoning the traditional paper scripts that can result in drug errors due to hard-to-read writing or coverage denials by a patient’s insurer.
The number of e-prescriptions nearly tripled last year to 191 million from the previous year’s 68 million, representing about 12% of the 1.63 billion original [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, Electronic Prescription, SureScripts
Posted April 20, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By Rich Silverman
American health care providers write close to 3 billion prescriptions per year, according to a number of estimates, with about 80% of them being written by hand. A recent study conducted by the Weill Cornell Medical School in New York found that about 4 of every 10 handwritten prescriptions had an error while [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, Electronic Prescribing, MIPPA
Posted April 15, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By Janice Simmons
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is posting in the Federal Register on Wednesday an interim final rule that would permit hospitals, healthcare providers, and pharmacies to use electronic prescriptions in the dispensing of controlled drugs. Comments on the rule will be open for 60 days.
The rule is similar to a regulation proposed by [...]
Tags: Biometrics, DEA, E-Prescribing
Posted April 13, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By Joseph Conn
The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued an interim final rule regulating electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
The 334-page rule also contains a request for comments. The rule affords prescribers the option of writing e-prescriptions for controlled drugs and also applies to pharmacies and hospitals.
According to a summary of the rule, it will “reduce paperwork [...]
Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, prescribers
Posted April 7, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
