Electronic Prescription

The latest audit of electronic prescription activity in all 50 states reports that one of every three physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the United State is e-prescribing.
At the fifth annual Safe-Rx Awards in September, held for the first time at the U.S. Capitol, Surescripts, the nation’s largest e-prescribing network, announced that Massachusetts ranked [...]

Tags: Certified Prescription, E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, eRx, SureScripts
Posted October 18, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Electronic Prescription

Key step in national initiative toward adoption of electronic health records
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), Chicago, Ill. and the Drummond Group Inc. (DGI), Austin, Texas, were named today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as the first technology review bodies that have been authorized to test [...]

Tags: Comprehensive Ambulatory EHR, EHR, electronic health records, meaningful use ehr, meaningful use of ehr, Outpatient EHR
Posted August 31, 2010 by admin under EHR, EMR

The rate of electronic prescribing in upstate New York increased from 12% in 2009 to 17% in the first quarter of this year, a new report by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield found, Healthcare IT News reports (Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 7/15).
The report also concluded that the percentage of physicians across the U.S. who use the technology [...]

Tags: Certified Prescription, E-Prescribing, E-Prescribing Systems, E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
Posted August 4, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Electronic Prescription

By Angela Martin
Payers and health plans have pushed for new incentives for electronic prescription in 2009. For example, in January, Medicare paid doctors a bonus if they exchanged their prescription pads over to e-prescribing. Various private health plans have also offered extra payments along with free equipment.
What the stats say: According to Web sources, the [...]

Tags: EHR, prescribing, Standalone
Posted February 5, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, Electronic Prescription

Benefits from EHR and e-prescribing investments come under very broad, diverse categories but are very individual and specific to the retrospective context of an investment, according to a study by the European Commission. There is no single correct strategy for implementing EHRs and e-prescribing systems, yet the results of the study give grounds for optimism [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, EHR, European Commission
Posted January 13, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR