Charlie Fidelman, The Gazette
“It will take several more months before your doctor can send your prescription directly, electronically, to your pharmacist, but Montrealers will finally be plugged into the provincial system of computerized health records.
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Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“By now, you’re probably well aware that e-prescribing offers financial benefits — not the least of which includes meeting Stage 1 of CMS’ meaningful use incentive program. But did you know that e-prescribing is also linked with improved patient outcomes and medication compliance rates?
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Sarah Kliff, The Washington Post
“There’s a lot of interest in health care right now in digitizing doctors’ decision-making, using computer databases to assist in diagnoses and treatments (Exhibit A: Wellpoint’s pilot project using Dr. Watson, the Jeopardy-winning super-computer, to assist doctors in the exam room).
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Today’s Sydney Morning Herald picks up on a study that showed electronic prescribing systems in two Australian teaching hospitals dramatically reduced medication errors.
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Amy Corderoy, smh.com.au
“Electronic prescribing systems could drastically cut previously intractable hospital medication errors, a study of two Sydney hospitals has found.
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Westbrook JI et al, PLoS Med, 9(1)
Background
Considerable investments are being made in commercial electronic prescribing systems (e-prescribing) in many countries. Few studies have measured or evaluated their effectiveness at reducing prescribing error rates, and interactions between system design and errors are not well understood, despite increasing concerns regarding new errors associated with system use. This study evaluated the effectiveness of two commercial e-prescribing systems in reducing prescribing error rates and their propensities for introducing new types of error.
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chiscosayans, doctordoctores
“La medicina en los próximos años deberá realizar profundos cambios para adaptarse a la situación actual. En un entorno como el presente, con grandes dificultades económicas, vemos como la necesidad de disminuir los costes sanitarios es fundamental para que el sistema siga siendo sostenible. Por otra parte, los pacientes cada vez exigen una atención más rápida y eficaz.
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Stroetmann KA
The European eHealth Strategies study analyzed policy development and strategy planning, implementation measures as well as progress achieved with respect to national and regional eHealth solutions in 34 European countries, with emphasis on barriers and enablers beyond technology. The focus was on infrastructure elements and selected solutions emphasized in the European Union eHealth Action Plan of 2004.
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Dominic Tyer, Digital Intelligence Blog
“The European Commission is to set up an eHealth network to help drive technological innovations such as tele-monitoring and e-prescriptions, and improve the safety and efficiency of patient care.
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Robert Teague, Washington Report
“In a country where half of all hospitals, and virtually all primary care physicians, use a nationally networked electronic medical record (EMR)system, Denmark leads the rest of the world in digital care.
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Apiscam
“La receta electrónica, más desarrollada en España que en ningún otro país de la Unión Europea, ha visto sin embargo frenado su desarrollo conforme la crisis económica y la necesidad de contener el gasto se han hecho patentes. Hasta ahora está casi al cien por cien en Andalucía y Extremadura, muy extendida en Baleares y Canarias, en desarrollo avanzado en Cataluña y en fase más atrasada en el resto, destacando el caso de Madrid, que apenas se ha iniciado.
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Luke Gale, CMIO
“Prescriptions handwritten by 78 providers’ offices over the course of approximately one year contained more than two errors per prescription written, an error rate that researchers believe could be significantly lowered through the use of e-prescribing systems, which automatically resolve instances of illegibility; a rate that could be further improved through the use of systems with clinical decision support (CDS).
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services last week boasted that the percentage of doctors who had basic electronic health records doubled between 2008 and 2011. That’s certainly a good sign. So is the increase in the percentage of physicians who say they plan to show Meaningful Use. More than half of doctors now say they aim to attest to Meaningful Use, vs. 41 percent in 2010.
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Cole Petrochko, MedPage Today
“Primary care physicians who adopted electronic health records (EHR) for the first time improved the quality of outpatient treatment, but doctors who simply upgraded EHR systems had a higher rate of prescribing errors, researchers reported here.
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Anne Steciw, Health IT Pulse
“Physicians and pharmacists who have already begun e-prescribing are pioneers of sorts, struggling to break through the tangle of technology and workflow, and clearing a path for others to follow. A new study published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association examined the experiences of some of these pioneers, concluding that while e-prescribing technology has matured, there is still room for improvement.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“More than half of all office-based doctors are prescribing electronically, according to data released by the e-prescribing network Surescripts.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“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.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality finds that physician practices and pharmacies are both keen on e-prescribing’s ability to improve safety and save time – but that both groups face barriers to realizing its full benefit.
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AHRQ news
“Physician practices and pharmacies generally view electronic prescribing as an important tool to improve patient safety and save time, but both groups face barriers to realizing the technology’s full benefit, according to a study funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The study is published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Grossman JM et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
A core feature of e-prescribing is the electronic exchange of prescription data between physician practices and pharmacies, which can potentially improve the efficiency of the prescribing process and reduce medication errors. Barriers to implementing this feature exist, but they are not well understood. This study’s objectives were to explore recent physician practice and pharmacy experiences with electronic transmission of new prescriptions and renewals, and identify facilitators of and barriers to effective electronic transmission and pharmacy e-prescription processing.
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