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 [...]

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Posted March 11, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

E-prescribing in the U.S. witnessed an 181 percent increase as 190 milion prescriptions were routed electronically in 2009 versus 68 million in 2008, according to a report from e-prescription network Surescripts, in its 2009 progess report on e-prescribing. Of the 190 million, more than four million e-prescriptions were routed to mail order pharmacies.
Eighteen percent of [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, E-Prescription, SureScripts
Posted March 8, 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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