Electronic Prescription

The Drug Enforcement Agency recently released its much-anticipated Interim Final Rule (IFR) on electronic prescription of  controlled substances. While additional clarification is needed from DEA, the rule opens the door for electronic transmission of controlled-substance prescriptions to pharmacies and removes a  significant barrier to the overall use of electronic prescribing.
However, until industry transaction standards that [...]

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Posted September 9, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

This week, the Medical Group Management Association sent a letter to CMS urging the agency to modify provisions of its proposed 2011 physician fee schedule relating to the electronic prescription and electronic health record programs, Modern Healthcare reports (Lubell, Modern Healthcare, 8/25).
The letter comments on CMS’ proposed rules for the Medicare Part B physician fee [...]

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

ROCHESTER, NY – The electronic prescribing rate in upstate New York increased from 12 percent in 2009 to 17 percent in the first quarter of 2010, representing 3.6 million new and renewed prescriptions on an annual basis, according to a new report. The report suggests that this number will grow significantly as the result of [...]

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Posted August 19, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

With a regulatory stroke, the Obama White House has swept away the last serious legal hurdle set by the federal government to the nationwide conversion of the healthcare system to the electronic prescription and transmission of prescription drugs.
The breakthrough came in June when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration struck down legal impediments to the electronic [...]

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

The rate of electronic prescribing in upstate New York increased from 12% in 2009 to 17% in the first quarter of this year, a new report by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield found, Healthcare IT News reports (Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 7/15).
The report also concluded that the percentage of physicians across the U.S. who use the technology [...]

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Posted August 4, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

by Mahoney, Diana
“E-prescribing saves lives, it saves money, and it’s time we implement it,” according to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt.
Streamlining the bloated health care system “is an economic imperative for our country. We have to get down to making the system better, and [e-prescribing] is one piece of a large puzzle,” [...]

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Posted August 25, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

It steers doctors toward lower-cost drugs, study finds

By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter
An electronic prescribing system that tells doctors which drugs are the least expensive can save millions a year, a new study finds.
“One of the challenges physicians face is that they don’t know which drugs are preferred or not preferred,” said Dr. [...]

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Posted August 19, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription