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

So-called “e-prescribing” systems that allow doctors to select lower-cost or generic medications can save $845,000 per 100,000 patients per year, according to a study funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Complete use of e-prescribing systems with formulary decision support could reduce prescription drug spending by up [...]

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Posted April 29, 2009 by admin under E-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