Electronic Prescription

Last week, the American Medical Association and 103 other medical societies sent a letter urging HHS to revise a Medicare policy that would penalize physicians for not electronically prescribing medications, Healthcare IT News reports.
Under the policy, physicians who do not e-prescribe in the first six months of 2011 would face penalties starting in 2012.
AMA said [...]

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Posted December 24, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR

Surescripts will expand its nationwide E Prescription network to further support digitized medical records and the electronic exchange of clinical information.
Announced earlier this week, the company said it is leveraging the success of its e-prescribing experience and its open, neutral network to enable the nationwide exchange of clinical messages, including up-to-date summaries of patients’ recent [...]

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Posted December 3, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Electronic Prescription

Surescripts, the national e-prescribing network, announced in October that it is opening up its network to support the exchange of all types of clinical information.
Through a partnership with technology vendor Kryptiq, headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., Surescripts will offer tools that can be used with electronic medical record systems and E Prescription systems that will enable [...]

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Posted November 15, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

NEW ORLEANS – Surescripts is expanding its nationwide E Prescription network with a new service that will allow for the exchange of clinical health information, officials announced Monday at the MGMA 2010 annual conference in New Orleans.
Officials said the new service will make it easier for physicians, pharmacies, PBMs, health systems, electronic health record systems [...]

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Posted November 2, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EMR, Electronic Prescription

The Obama administration used about half of a 50-page report on innovations targeted by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to underscore the importance of health and medical IT to the nation’s economic future.
The stimulus legislation, passed in February 2009, was designed to jumpstart the economy.
In presenting the report, Vice President Joe Biden, who was [...]

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Posted October 26, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, 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 [...]

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Posted October 18, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Electronic Prescription

The use of e-prescribing nearly tripled last year, but still only accounts for the minority of prescription transactions in the U.S., according to a new report.
In 2009, of the 1.63 billion prescriptions written in the U.S., 190 million prescriptions — or 12% — took place electronically, according to the results of an annual audit of [...]

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

WASHINGTON – Massachusetts ranks first in the nation when it comes to the use of electronic prescribing, announced officials Tuesday at the Fifth Annual Safe-Rx Awards held on Capitol Hill. Nationwide the number of physicians using e-prescribing has grown to 200,000.
“To argue that there are 200,000 physicians e‑prescribing is really reassuring,” said David Blumenthal, MD, [...]

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

The number of office-based U.S. health care professionals who use electronic prescription systems has increased significantly in recent years, according to data released Tuesday by electronic prescribing network operator Surescripts, Reuters reports.
Charting E-Prescription Adoption
According to Surescripts, about 200,000 office-based prescribers — or about one-third of office-based health care workers — currently use e-prescribing systems. The [...]

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

ALEXANDRIA, VA – Officials at Alexandria, Va.-based SureScripts say it is reducing what pharmacies, pharmacy vendors and pharmacy benefit managers pay for e-prescribing.
According to company officials, it has been six years since Surescripts, which operates the nation’s largest E Prescription network, has had a price increase.
“Our decision to lower prices fulfills a public promise made [...]

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Posted September 15, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription