Electronic Prescription

By Joseph Conn
The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued an interim final rule regulating electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
The 334-page rule also contains a request for comments. The rule affords prescribers the option of writing e-prescriptions for controlled drugs and also applies to pharmacies and hospitals.
According to a summary of the rule, it will “reduce paperwork [...]

Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, prescribers
Posted April 7, 2010 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

The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy has submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on a proposed rule addressing changes to Medicare Part B payment policy. Specifically, AMCP commented on incentives for e-prescribing and on the revision of requirements for approved compendia for the determination of medically-accepted indications for off-label uses [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, e-prescribing system, electronic prescriber, prescribers
Posted August 9, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Anne Zieger
In the past, prescribing electronically was confusing to many doctors. Today, however, e-prescribing sounds like a reasonable idea, and its benefits–largely improving prescription accuracy and safety–are well known to most. While the technology continues to be a bit clunky, its use is climbing rapidly. Today, more than 120,000 doctors are using e-prescribing, or [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, prescribers, prescription, SureScripts
Posted July 15, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

If your medical practice has not yet implemented electronic prescribing, you are among about 70 percent of physicians in the nation. You also may be missing out on free money.
On January 1, Medicare began paying a 2-percent bonus to physicians who use a qualified e-prescription system on 50 percent of their Medicare patients. That incentive [...]

Tags: EHR system, Electronic Prescribing, Electronic Prescription USA, prescribers, SureScripts
Posted July 9, 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

By Joe Carlson/ HITS staff writer

A proposed rule from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that would allow tightly monitored use of computer technology to electronically transmit prescriptions for controlled substances is meeting with resistance from some in the healthcare community.

Although many drugs may already be prescribed through electronic means, the DEA still [...]

Tags: e-Rx rules, prescriber, prescribers
Posted July 1, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Consulting firm predicts 75 percent adoption of e-prescribing by 2014
By Nancy Ferris
The stimulus law’s incentives for providers to adopt health information technology will double the rate of e-prescribing and result in a $22 billion reduction in drug and medical costs in the next decade, according to a study commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association.
If [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, prescribers, prescribing
Posted June 22, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

ALEXANDRIA, VA – 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 [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, Electronic Prescribing, prescribers, SureScripts
Posted June 18, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

$22 Billion Savings from E-Prescribing Under New Law Will Pay For Modernizing the Nation’s Entire Health IT Infrastructure
WASHINGTON — Financial incentives for physicians to adopt health information technology (HIT) included in the recent economic stimulus bill will increase the number of prescribers using electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) to more than 75 percent over the next [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing Adoption, PCMA, prescribers
Posted June 9, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription