Electronic Prescription

By, Nicolel
E-prescribing is one important component of EHRs. Retail pharmacies are realizing the potential for e-prescribing to increase their safety and productivity, such as Walgreens. The national pharmacy chain’s electronic prescriptions recently reached 4 million in October 2009, a 185-percent increase from the year prior.
It is projected that Walgreens will fill more than 45 million [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, EHRs, Walgreens
Posted February 3, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Anthony Pensabene
Are you a doctor searching for better ways to treat your patients? Do you want to address administrative duties in an efficient and timely manner? E-prescribing software offers a viable solution. The benefits of electronic prescription have been aiding doctors for some time now while more doctors are realizing the benefits of such [...]

Tags: benefits, E-Prescribing, Electronic Prescribing
Posted January 19, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, 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

By Ursula Pennell
E-prescribing Overview:
E-prescribing has been described as the solution to improved patient safety and reducing sky-rocketing medication costs. It is estimated that approximately 7,000 deaths occur each year in the United States due to medication errors. These errors are predominately due to hand-writing illegibility, wrong dosing, missed drug-drug or drug-allergy reactions. With [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, prescriptions, SureScripts
Posted January 8, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Heather B. Hayes
The state of Delaware credits a decision a year ago to fund e-prescribing start-up costs for the top Medicaid providers in the state for a 150 percent jump in the number of Medicaid providers now using the e-health service.
The top-down approach, which included offering e-prescribing technology and training services to the top [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, Medicaid
Posted December 24, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Medicare Incentive, Medicare Law

By Kyle Hardy
A group of Virginia-based healthcare executives, pharmacists and other stakeholders has launched a new Web site to push the commonwealth toward e-prescribing.
CommonwealthRx, which was launched earlier this year to increase the volume of e-prescribing in Virginia, rolled out its new Web site at the annual meeting of the Virginia Healthcare Information and Management [...]

Tags: CommonwealthRx, E-Prescribing, MedVirginia
Posted December 16, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Hospital

Bernie Monegain, Editor
Rhode Island Gov. Donald L. Carcieri announced Monday that the state has launched a new system for tracking swine flu.
The system makes use of prescribing data provided by the state’s pharmacies via a secure electronic link. The tracking initiative is enabled by the state’s success with e-prescribing and the digital healthcare infrastructure available [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, SureScripts, swine flu
Posted December 4, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Hospital

By Neil Versel,

The new Medicare Part B fee schedule for 2010 is encouraging doctors to adopt EHRs by, for the first time, allowing practices to use real clinical data from EHRs and e-prescribing systems to report quality measures for the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and e-prescribing incentive programs. The change, according to CMS, [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, EHR, EHR reporting, Electronic Prescribing, electronic prescriptions
Posted November 20, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Hospital, Medicare Incentive

Bernie Monegain, Editor
Key changes to physician quality reporting and e-prescribing incentives are being proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.
The proposed changes add reporting measures and a way for reporting by group practice rather than individual physician, as well as provisions for EHR-based reporting. For e-prescribing, CMS aims to simplify the reporting measures.
The Physician [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, EHR, Physician Quality Reporting, prescribing electronically
Posted November 12, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, EMR, Electronic Prescription

By John Moore
Health and Human Services Department officials looked to spark the adoption of e-prescribing at a conference this week attended by some 1,400 health care professionals and industry representatives.
The meeting, held in Boston and sponsored by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, was put together in six weeks in preparation for the planned [...]

Tags: CMS, E-Prescribing, Human Services Department, RxNT
Posted October 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, EMR, Electronic Prescription