Electronic Prescription

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,” [...]

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Posted August 25, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, 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

Maria A. Friedman, Anthony Schueth and Douglas S. Bell

Abstract
Although the vast majority of U.S. physicians still handwrite prescriptions, adoption of electronic prescribing is slowly growing. Major barriers to adoption remain, including the inability to electronically submit prescriptions for controlled substances and confusion about standards for data exchange. Federal and state governments and [...]

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Posted August 11, 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

by Mark Sanchez | Business Review Western Michigan

He gave up the paper pad four years ago and now only writes prescriptions for patients electronically.

While Dr. Richard Smith can’t specifically quantify the results, he knows without any doubt that e-prescribing has generated efficiencies in his medical practice.

“As you accept it [...]

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Posted July 31, 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

The AMA has created an extensive online resource.
By the close of 2008, only about 13% of physicians were prescribing electronically. The prescription pad and pen still rule in most offices.

But doctors are getting a nudge to automate their prescribing process. Physicians who prescribe electronically for their Medicare patients will be eligible for incentive payments. [...]

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Posted July 6, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

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Posted June 29, 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

The AMA has created an extensive online resource.
By the close of 2008, only about 13% of physicians were prescribing electronically. The prescription pad and pen still rule in most offices.
But doctors are getting a nudge to automate their prescribing process. Physicians who prescribe electronically for their Medicare patients will be eligible for incentive payments. This [...]

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Posted May 13, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription