Electronic Prescription

By Sally Gainsbury
Electronic prescribing systems that reduce the possibility of human error could cut clinical negligence claims by more than 70 per cent, according to US hospital chain Banner Health.
The company, which has worked with national IT programme supplier Cerner to evaluate the impact of its electronic prescribing system, said systems that reduced the possibility [...]

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Posted October 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Hospital

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

Florida’s medical examiners recently reported that prescription medicines caused more deaths in 2008 than illicit drugs. The medical examiners also reported sharp increases in deaths caused by prescription tranquilizers and painkillers, such as Oxycodone and hydrocodone.
The results of the year-end report weren’t surprising. Since the middle of last year, physicians, pharmacists and law enforcement officials [...]

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Posted July 29, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Sally Gainsbury
Electronic prescribing systems that reduce the possibility of human error could cut clinical negligence claims by more than 70 per cent, according to US hospital chain Banner Health.

The company, which has worked with national IT programme supplier Cerner to evaluate the impact of its electronic prescribing system, said systems that reduced the [...]

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Posted July 16, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

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

New research published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that the adoption of electronic prescribing systems may allow for greater efficiency at hospitals, which could result in long-term cost savings and improved quality of care. In an attempt to reduce or eliminate potentially harmful medication errors, the [...]

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