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Report offers national e-prescribing plan
Despite considerable political pressure on physicians to adopt e-prescribing, few have gotten on board. In fact, only 2 percent of prescriptions eligible for electronic routing were transmitted that Read more...
E-prescribing advocates harness patient pressure
If vendor SureScripts gets its way, e-prescribing should develop a much higher profile among consumers, doctors and pharmacies over the next few weeks. Last Tuesday, the company kicked off what Read more...
Coalition wants e-prescribing included in Medicare reform
A coalition of 44 healthcare industry organizations have come together to ask Congress to to include e-prescribing mandates in Medicare reform legislation. The members want legislators to adopt the Read more...
Medical groups advocate e-prescribing
In the past, much of the push toward e-prescribing has come from government officials or technology vendors. Now, that seems to be changing. This week, a group of five medical organizations have Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: MA still e-prescribing friendly
For the second year in a row, Massachusetts has been named the country's most e-prescribing friendly state. According to an audit, Massachusetts sent 4 million prescriptions electronically, or more Read more...
Study: E-prescribing boosts safety, quality
A new study commissioned by an e-prescribing network suggests that physicians are pretty comfortable with the technology. The study, which was conducted among physicians participating in a Read more...
Google begins storing medical records
After more than a year of coy hints, Google has come out and taken a ground-breaking step. Starting with somewhere between 1,500 and 10,000 Cleveland Clinic patients, all of whom will be volunteers, Read more...
DEA allows e-prescriptions for controlled drugs
In a step which could make e-prescribing far more workable than it had been before, the DEA has released proposed regulations which would remove federal rules forbidding e-prescribing for controlled Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Brooklyn HIE to begin operations; Mass. e-prescribing up in 2007; and much more...
> The Brooklyn Health Information Exchange has begun developing an enterprise master person index in preparation for beginning operations this summer. Read more...
Trend: E-prescribing top HIT issue for 2008
It's looking like e-prescribing is going to be the hottest health IT issue under discussion in 2008, according to a growing list of observers and stakeholders in the industry. For one thing, much Read more...
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