Electronic Prescription

By Elizabeth Cooney
Patients who do not take their medications as prescribed pay a price in poorer health, more frequent hospitalizations, and a higher risk of death. Collectively, they also incur up to $290 billion annually in increased medical costs, according to a Boston-based health policy group that urges making the issue part of the [...]

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Posted August 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

The Department of Health and Human Services (”HHS”) issued comprehensible, no surprises guidance under the final HIPAA privacy rule that went into effect on April 14, 2001. From the perspective of all but the health care provider community, the guidance was pretty much a nonevent; HHS addresses issues that are primarily of relevance to providers. [...]

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Posted August 10, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription

Over the past two years, about 84 million 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 [...]

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Posted April 27, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription