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
By, Nicholas Christiano Jr.
There has been considerable discussion on the federal stimulus program and the impact it will have in bringing about an improved patient care model through the use of technology. This anticipates care providers having access to electronic health records (EHRs) that can communicate, or “interoperate,” with other health providers and health systems [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, EHR, radiation
Posted March 30, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By Neil Versel
It’s a small study group, but the results are eye-opening nonetheless: Primary-care practices cut their prescription error rates from 42.5 percent to 6.6 percent in a one-year period by adopting e-prescribing technology.
That’s the finding of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, as reported in the Journal of General [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, prescribing, Study
Posted March 24, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
Surescripts, The Nation’s E-Prescription Network, today announced that it has lowered the cost of e-prescribing services used millions of times each day by physicians, pharmacists and payers nationwide. After six years of no price increases, the announcement illustrates how replacing a manual, paper-based process with health information technology creates a more efficient and, ultimately, lower-cost [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, E-Prescription, SureScripts
Posted March 18, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
There is increasing acceptance of e-prescribing in Europe and system sales should more than triple in the next six years, according to a report on the technology by market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
According to the analysis, the European market for e-prescription systems, including integrated and stand-alone e-prescription systems, was worth $95.4 million in 2008 [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, E-Prescription, Europe
Posted March 11, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
