Electronic Prescription

By Lorraine Savage
Everyone, it seems, wants doctors to e-prescribe. Physicians are facing an onslaught of government incentives, state and local urgings, and healthcare and consumer organizations’ guilt to make the transition from antiquated paper prescription pads to 21st century electronic prescription systems.
Medicare Incentive Program
The biggest step toward universal e-prescribing was the passage on [...]

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Posted June 22, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

The UK’s largest rollout of a hospital electronic-prescription system is nearing completion in Birmingham.
The ePrescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system will manage medicines for the more than 1,800 hospital beds at Heartlands, Solihull and Good Hope hospitals, as well as their take-out prescriptions.
The system includes access to the Multilex Drug Data File database, which [...]

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Posted May 26, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription