This is a comparative effectiveness study that evaluates the safety effects of 2 types of commercially available electronic prescribing systems. The increasingly widespread adoption of electronic ...

Many healthcare leaders see the challenge as more than a technology issue. It also raises broader questions about how prescription infrastructure has evolved over time,” says Nabil Hallak, co-founder ...

While electronic prescribing has been shown to reduce medication errors and improve prescribing safety, it is vulnerable to error-prone processes. We review six intersecting areas in which changes to ...

Clinicians using an electronic prescribing system appear more likely to prescribe lower-cost medications, reducing drug spending, according to a report in the December 8/22 issue of Archives of ...

CHICAGO (May 4, 2009) – New research published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that the adoption of electronic prescribing systems may allow for greater ...

The use of electronic health record systems in doctors’ offices and hospitals has hit a major speed bump, and rightly so, with the federal government winning a $145 million civil and criminal ...

Transactional data from the Surescripts electronic prescribing network may be used to track electronic health record adoption efficiently and with regional granularity. This study compared national ...

Recent research between the intersection of health and tech brings a new development in an automatic electronic alert system used to prevent overprescribing of asthmatic drugs. "Excessive use of ...

“Electronic prescription dispensing systems typically include the steps of entering patient information electronically into an electronic medical record (EMR) system, such as disclosed by U.S.

Iowa Health System, the largest integrated health system in the state, and Allscripts have launched a program to convert a majority of Iowa's physicians from paper prescriptions to electronic ones in ...