“Electronic prescribing will soon become a standard medical practice in the United States. Initiatives promoting clinicians’ use of ePrescribing are achieving remarkable results. Starting this year, Medicare is increasing reimbursements to doctors using ePrescribing. By 2012, physicians not using this technology will be penalized with lower Medicare reimbursements.
Key medical organizations have endorsed a timely transition to ePrescribing, and a growing number of health plan sponsors are supporting ePrescribing programs that put the technology into physicians’ offices. Finally, the merger between major networks SureScripts and RxHub is setting the foundation for uniform ePrescribing standards. As a result of these and other efforts, an estimated 100 million ePrescriptions were “written” in 2008, a 300 percent increase from 2007.”
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Sumit Dutta, Advance, 7 December 2009
