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 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 [...]
Tags: benefits, E-Prescribing, Electronic Prescribing
Posted January 19, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By Brian Robinson
Electronic prescribing, often described as the lowest hanging fruit in health IT, could be set to make a big leap forward as organizations in states such as Iowa look to provide free e-prescribing services for physicians and federal legislation starts to drive nationwide adoption of the technology.
The Iowa program, called ePrescribe Iowa, is [...]
Tags: Allscripts, Electronic Prescribing, HealthNet
Posted December 9, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
Bernie Monegain, Editor
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The number of physicians using electronic prescribing will have more than doubled in 2009, executives of the e-prescribing network Surescripts said.
More than 140,000 – 23 percent of all office-based physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the United States – are e-prescribing today, officials said. And at the [...]
Tags: Electronic Prescribing, prescribers, SureScripts
Posted December 8, 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, [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, EHR, EHR reporting, Electronic Prescribing, electronic prescriptions
Posted November 20, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Hospital, Medicare Incentive
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 [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, Electronic Prescribing, Electronic prescribing systems
Posted October 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Hospital
By John Moore
The Health and Human Services Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration are reviewing the feedback they have received on DEA proposed rule on e-prescribing for controlled substances, but the final rule might not emerge this year.
DEA published the proposed rule earlier this year, which would impose security requirements for e-prescribing of controlled substances. [...]
Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, eHealth, Electronic Prescribing, HHS
Posted October 15, 2009 by admin under EMR, Electronic Prescription, Hospital
Molly Merrill, Associate Editor
Electronic prescribing has seen significant growth in adoption and use of critical components, according to the annual National Progress Report on E-Prescribing.
The report, released by Alexandria, Va.-based Surescripts, documents the status of e-prescribing adoption and use in the United States from 2006 through 2008.
According to the report, more than 100,000 prescribers are [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, e-prescribing growth, Electronic Prescribing, electronic prescription benefit
Posted September 10, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Hospital
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,” [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, E-Prescription, Electronic Prescribing, Electronic Prescription, prescriber
Posted August 25, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By News Sentinel staff
Tennessee is recognized as one of the top five most improved states in routing prescriptions electronically.
Surescripts, a health information network that operates the country’s largest electronic prescribing network, announced that Tennessee ranked second behind Vermont and just ahead of Kansas, Illinois and Missouri on the top five list. Recognized as the country’s [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, Electronic Prescribing, prescribing, SureScripts
Posted August 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
