“Electronic drug prescribing is growing rapidly, at long last—but it still represents only a small percentage of prescribers and the number of prescriptions being written. According to the latest figures released by Surescripts, the company that provides the connectivity between physician practices and pharmacies, the number of actively e-prescribing physicians and midlevel practitioners grew from 36,000 at the end of 2007 to 74,000 in December 2008. In the first quarter of this year, it jumped another 39 percent to 103,000 clinicians. The December figure represented only 12 percent of office-based prescribers, although that advanced again to 17 percent in the first three months of 2009.”
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare, 22 April 2009
