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 ...

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 ...

Modal e-prescribing alerts were more than three times more effective in preventing prescribing errors than non-modal alerts, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

According to statistics published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, U.S. researchers estimated medication errors affect at least 1.5 million people every year and cost the health-care system in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The future has arrived for U.S. doctors when it comes to prescribing medications. Starting next month, Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and ...

A federal measure that encourages using electronic systems for prescriptions beginning in January will help deliver safer and more efficient care to patients while also cutting costs, a Purdue ...

As a health IT company, Wise Hospice Options integrates with many different systems, particularly electronic health records. The company has integrated with more than 15 EHRs throughout the 21 years ...

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 ...

Hospitals will benefit from an extra £75m announced to speed up implementation of electronic prescribing systems, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said today on the BBC Victoria Derbyshire programme. A ...

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 ...