“Electronic prescribing is plagued by numerous interface problems and communications gaps between physician offices and pharmacies, according to a study recently published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association. Some of the deficiencies reflect underlying structural problems in the electronic prescribing software that many physicians use.
Conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the study is based on 114 phone interviews performed in 2010 with representatives of 24 physician practices, 48 community pharmacies, and three mail-order pharmacies actively transmitting or receiving e-prescriptions via Surescripts.”
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek, 23 November 2011
Article (Grossman 2011)
