Electronic Prescription

Four pharmacy organizations say they support the Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to allow electronic prescribing of controlled substances but called for further clarification on the new e-prescribing rule, Modern Healthcare reports.
On March 31, DEA published in the Federal Register its interim final rule on e-prescribing of controlled substances. According to DEA public affairs officer Barbara [...]

Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, Pharmacy Groups
Posted July 1, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Jim Frederick
WASHINGTON (Jun. 1) Capping a decade-long -– and ultimately victorious -– battle by pharmacy and technology interests to modernize all facets of the prescription prescribing and dispensing process, the Drug Enforcement Administration has struck down legal impediments to the electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
In an announcement this afternoon, the DEA issued its interim [...]

Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, NACDS
Posted June 11, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

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 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

By John Moore
The Health and Human Services Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration are reviewing the feedback they have received on DEA proposed rule on e-prescribing for controlled substances, but the final rule might not emerge this year.
DEA published the proposed rule earlier this year, which would impose security requirements for e-prescribing of controlled substances. [...]

Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, eHealth, Electronic Prescribing, HHS
Posted October 15, 2009 by admin under EMR, Electronic Prescription, Hospital