For e-prescribing to realize its full potential for improving the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of prescription drug delivery, important work remains to be carried out. Significant strides ...

Imagine the challenge a pediatrician faces when seeing a new patient and trying to determine what medications they might be taking, especially if the patient’s parents didn’t write them down before ...

With the signature of President Obama in 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) became law. The focus of HITECH was to stimulate adoption of electronic ...

Electronic prescribing (“e-prescribing”) allows health care providers to submit prescriptions to a pharmacy electronically, using a secure software system. E-prescribing increases patient safety, ...

With nearly two decades of retail management and project management experience, Brett Day can simplify complex traditional and Agile project management philosophies and methodologies and can explain ...

Federal officials are seeking comments about challenges clinicians may face in meeting a January 1, 2021, deadline for electronic submission of prescriptions for opioids covered by Medicare's Part D ...

The health IT arm of the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule this week that federal leaders say will remove red tape and enable faster prior authorization and real-time ...

Historically, a retail pharmacy unable to fill an initial electronic prescription for Schedule II-V controlled substances could not transfer it to another pharmacy – even if the two pharmacies were ...

In a health plan–sponsored e-prescribing initiative, participating PCPs' mean e-prescribing rate was 1 prescription per 4 pharmacy claims, but some PCPs achieved high use. Using records from an ...

First Databank, or FDB), owned by Hearst Health, announced in March at HIMSS22 the launch of the country's second e‑prescribing network, FDB Vela. For more than 15 years, the country has been served ...