Study: N.C. ranks high in electronic prescription transfers

The percentage of medical prescriptions routed electronically from a physician’s office to a pharmacy hit 6.4 percent in North Carolina in 2008, giving the state a sixth-place national ranking, according to survey by St. Paul, Minn.-based Surescripts, a medical networking company.
Surescripts, formed as a result of the 2008 merger of RxHub and Surescripts, has been [...]

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Posted June 24, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

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E-Prescription Adoption Picking Up

Over the past two years, tens of thousands of U.S. clinicians have traded in their paper prescription pads for electronic prescribing software.
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek
More doctors have traded in their paper prescription pads for e-prescribing over the last two years. However, the bulk of e-prescriptions are being generated by doctors using standalone e-prescribing software, [...]

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Posted May 7, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription

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