Electronic Prescription

By Lebowitz & Mzhen
In a recent news that our Baltimore, Maryland Attorneys have been following, doctors are reportedly increasingly leaving behind paper when prescribing medications, and depending more and more on electronic prescriptions, or “e-prescriptions”—in an effort to avoid pharmacy misfills and medication errors, along with hard-to-read doctor handwriting, or even prescription fraud, as our [...]

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Posted May 17, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Weill Cornell Medical College-Led Study Is One of the First to Compare E-Prescriptions to Handwritten Prescriptions in Community-Based Practices

Should doctors around the country use e-prescribing to decrease prescription errors? A study led by physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College found that health care providers using an electronic system to write prescriptions were seven [...]

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Posted March 3, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Ursula Pennell
E-prescribing Overview:
E-prescribing has been described as the solution to improved patient safety and reducing sky-rocketing medication costs. It is estimated that approximately 7,000 deaths occur each year in the United States due to medication errors. These errors are predominately due to hand-writing illegibility, wrong dosing, missed drug-drug or drug-allergy reactions. With [...]

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Posted January 8, 2010 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

By Tonia Rose – Staff Writer
Florida is among 11 states without electronic means to track the dispensing of controlled substances, but as of May, a new law was passed by the Florida General Assembly and has Kentucky lawmakers hoping the pill pipeline will cease.

During a sentencing hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court in [...]

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Posted August 3, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

by June Q. Wu/Plain Dealer Reporter
Ohio doctors seem reluctant to give up their prescription pads, according to findings by Surescripts, the largest national prescription network.

The state lags far behind the nation’s leaders when it comes to sending prescriptions electronically over the network, which covers all major chain pharmacies, such as CVS and Walgreens, [...]

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Posted July 22, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

More physicians are transitioning to electronic prescribing as the number of incentives for doing so grows, the Wall Street Journal reports.

In the past year, the number of physicians prescribing medicines electronically has more than doubled to roughly 70,000, or about 12% of office-based physicians, the Journal reports.

Incentives
This month, CMS began offering a [...]

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Posted July 20, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Ann Carrns | Kaiser Health News
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — At first, Dr. Marek Durakiewicz welcomed the opportunity to send prescriptions to drugstores electronically, using free computer equipment provided by a state pilot program.

Durakiewicz, the chief of staff at Hickman Community Hospital in Centerville, Tenn., recognized the potential benefits of “e-prescribing.” Special software [...]

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Posted July 2, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Electronic Systems Shown to Reduce Dangerous Errors; A Cure for Poor Penmanship
With a host of new incentives, doctors are finally beginning to scrap pen and paper in favor of electronic prescriptions.
Medicare began paying doctors a bonus if they switch their patients over to e-prescribing. Some private health plans also have begun offering extra payments along [...]

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Posted June 16, 2009 by admin under Medicare Incentive