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More physicians are participating in “pay for reporting” programs that focus on using quality measures and electronic prescribing, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Its data also shows that physicians are...

Physicians have been encouraged to switch from paper records to electronic systems in their offices, and the push seems to be working. In 2010, 50.7% of office-based doctors used some type of electronic medical records system -- more than twice the...

By Ken Terry Terry Hashey, a family physician in Jacksonville, Fla., remembers how the e-prescribing application in his electronic health record helped him when a new patient presented at his office with an acute problem. She had just flown in from out...

By Rich Silverman American health care providers write close to 3 billion prescriptions per year, according to a number of estimates, with about 80% of them being written by hand.  A recent study conducted by the Weill Cornell Medical School in New York...

By Anthony Pensabene Are you a doctor searching for better ways to treat your patients? Do you want to address administrative duties in an efficient and timely manner? E-prescribing software offers a viable solution. The benefits of electronic...

By Brian Robinson Electronic prescribing, often described as the lowest hanging fruit in health IT, could be set to make a big leap forward as organizations in states such as Iowa look to provide free e-prescribing services for physicians and federal...

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...

By Neil Versel, The new Medicare Part B fee schedule for 2010 is encouraging doctors to adopt EHRs by, for the first time, allowing practices to use real clinical data from EHRs and e-prescribing systems to report quality measures for the Physician...

By Mary Mosquera, Healthcare providers will have the option to use electronic health record systems to report Medicare quality and electronic prescribing measures to CMS in some of its pay-for-performance programs next year, according to an announcement...

By Sally Gainsbury Electronic prescribing systems that reduce the possibility of human error could cut clinical negligence claims by more than 70 per cent, according to US hospital chain Banner Health. The company, which has worked with national IT...

By John Moore The Health and Human Services Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration are reviewing the feedback they have received on DEA proposed rule on e-prescribing for controlled substances, but the final rule might not emerge this...

Molly Merrill, Associate Editor 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,...

by Mahoney, Diana "E-prescribing saves lives, it saves money, and it's time we implement it," according to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt. Streamlining the bloated health care system "is an economic imperative for our country. We...

By News Sentinel staff Tennessee is recognized as one of the top five most improved states in routing prescriptions electronically. Surescripts, a health information network that operates the country's largest electronic prescribing network,...

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...