Impact of Federal Incentive Program on e-Prescribing Adoption - 11:30AM-12:30 PM ET, Friday, August 16, 2013

                       

Rapid Response: Impact of Federal Incentive Programs on e-Prescribing Adoption

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is a cooperative agreement partner of National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC).

Program Description: 

In the mid-2000s, only 6% of office-based providers were e-prescribing. To encourage and accelerate adoption, federal incentives such as Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPAA) and HITECH were put into place. As a result, e-prescribing by office-based physicians grew from 7% in 2008 to 54% in 2012. On Friday, August 16 from 11:30AM-12:30PM EST, panelists will discuss the growth, trends, and evolution of e-prescribing adoption. They will also examine the methodology and results of a recent e-prescribing adoption study conducted by Surescripts and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published in Health Affairs, the impacts of federal incentive programs on e-prescribing, and what is in store for the future. After the presentations, panelists will take questions from the audience.

FEATURING: 

• Michael Furukawa, PhD - Director, Office of Economic Analysis, Evaluation, and Modeling, HHS 
• Max J. Sow -   Director of Business Intelligence, Surescripts 
• Seth Joseph - Vice President, Pharmacy Business,  Surescripts 

We invite you to join NeHC University’s program, Rapid Response: Impact of Federal Incentive Programs on e-Prescribing Adoption. You can register for this program here: http://www.nationalehealth.org/ePrescribing. This is a free program. 

Questions? Email NeHC University at university@nationalehealth.org.