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By Mary Mosquera The American Academy of Family Physicians will offer its primary care members a Web-based service that enables secure electronic communication between providers over the Surescripts network. The electronic prescribing network will...

Surescripts announced yesterday it would expand its electronic prescribing network to offer health information exchange services for all types of clinical information, including the basic health record sharing envisioned under the federal Nationwide...

Surescripts, the Nation’s E-Prescription Network, today announced that eight vendors representing nine physician software products have completed Gold certification. The resulting Gold Solution Provider status is granted to vendors with software...

By Pamela Lewis Dolan, A new report finds a significant uptick in the number of physicians who prescribe electronically. But the e-prescribers still only account for about one in four physicians, or 26% of office-based doctors. The numbers come from...

By Neil Versel Just as predicted at the end of 2008, e-prescribing volume nearly tripled in 2009, according to prescription transaction network Surescripts. And the growth has picked up this year. Surescripts reports that U.S. prescribers wrote 191...

By Timothy W. Martin Doctors are increasingly prescribing medications electronically, abandoning the traditional paper scripts that can result in drug errors due to hard-to-read writing or coverage denials by a patient's insurer. The number of...

Surescripts, The Nation's E-Prescription Network, today announced that it has lowered the cost of e-prescribing services used millions of times each day by physicians, pharmacists and payers nationwide. After six years of no price increases, the...

E-prescribing in the U.S. witnessed an 181 percent increase as 190 milion prescriptions were routed electronically in 2009 versus 68 million in 2008, according to a report from e-prescription network Surescripts, in its 2009 progess report on...

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...

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee Rhode Island is the first state in the U.S. to begin tracking swine flu outbreaks using e-prescription data. State public health officials are electronically monitoring possible H1NI outbreaks based on e-prescription data from...

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...

Bernie Monegain, Editor Rhode Island Gov. Donald L. Carcieri announced Monday that the state has launched a new system for tracking swine flu. The system makes use of prescribing data provided by the state's pharmacies via a secure electronic link. The...

Bernie Monegain, Editor Surescripts will adopt a new version of a technical standard that's recommended by federal regulators as part of a $19 billion incentive program to encourage greater use of electronic health records. The standard – referred to...

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...