E-prescrib​ing Improves Safety and Efficiency​, Yet Barriers to Reaching Full Potential Remain

A new AHRQ-funded study, conducted interviews with representatives of 97 organizations, including 24 physician practices, 48 community pharmacies and three mail-order pharmacies using e-prescribing, focused on how e-prescribing is being used for new prescriptions and renewals, the barriers to use, effects on pharmacies’ prescription processing, and strategies to support more effective use of these features.  “Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: Experiences of physician practices and pharmacies,” published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association states physician practices and pharmacies generally were positive about the electronic transmission of new prescriptions,  but prescription renewals; connectivity between physician offices and mail-order pharmacies; and manual entry of certain prescription information; continue to pose problems as increasing numbers of physicians adopt the technology in response to federal incentives.  Find the study abstract at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed.
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