e-prescribing news from FierceHealthIT
NewsStudy: E-prescribing significantly cuts hospital error rates
Medication error rates fell substantially in two Australian hospitals after they introduced commercial electronic prescribing systems, according to a study published in PLoS Medicine. Although the Read more...
Unreliable info causes provider skepticism of e-prescribing
Holes in formulary and benefit (F&B) information and medication history of patients have caused some provider skepticism of e-prescribing, a study recently published in the Journal of the Read more...
eHealth network promotes IT in Europe
Telemonitoring and e-prescribing will be the focus of a new eHealth network being pushed by the European Commission, according to a post on the Digital Intelligence Blog. National authorities, Read more...
Verizon health ID management expands to cover EHRs, HIEs
Verizon is expanding its cloud-based identity-management services for healthcare providers. Verizon Universal Identify Services-Healthcare, founded in November 2010, now supports new identity Read more...
'Hardship' exemption in final eRx rule helps docs avoid penalties
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in the just-published final rule on its e-prescribing incentive program, added an important new "hardship" exemption to penalties that otherwise Read more...
CMS e-prescribing proposal slammed over physician penalties
The American Medical Association (AMA) and 91 specialty societies criticized the government's proposed new rules on electronic prescribing in comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Read more...
Surescripts' reaction to e-prescribing study doesn't erase the need for improvement
A recent paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) found that about one in 10 computer-generated prescriptions contained errors, and that two-thirds of Read more...
AMA interactive tool helps docs identify HIT priorities
The American Medical Association's AMAGINE subsidiary has introduced an interactive online tool to help physicians identify their health IT priorities and see how those compare with their peers' Read more...
CMS wants more exemptions for docs to avoid e-prescribing penalties
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed giving physicians additional "hardship" exemptions that will prevent them from being penalized by Medicare for not prescribing Read more...
Incomplete, inaccurate patient info causing e-prescribe headaches
Many physicians don't use the community medication histories and the formulary information available to them in electronic prescribing systems because the data is incomplete and the systems are Read more...
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