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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

E-prescribing reduced many types of prescribing errors, including route errors, strength errors, use of inappropriate abbreviations and refill errors, and completely eliminated illegibility issues.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the election approaches, recommendations about changes to the healthcare system abound. As we consider these proposals, it is critical to remember how much health innovation depends on dynamic ...

The Mississippi Division of Medicaid and Shared Health, one of the country’s largest health information exchanges, have launched a system for electronic health records and electronic prescribing for ...

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 ...