Clinicians using an electronic prescribing system appear more likely to prescribe lower-cost medications, reducing drug spending, according to a report in the December 8/22 issue of Archives of ...

This is a comparative effectiveness study that evaluates the safety effects of 2 types of commercially available electronic prescribing systems. The increasingly widespread adoption of electronic ...

A new study finds that physicians who use an e-prescribing system with formulary decision support can boost drug cost savings. The report was funded by the Department of Health and Human Services' ...

While electronic prescribing has been shown to reduce medication errors and improve prescribing safety, it is vulnerable to error-prone processes. We review six intersecting areas in which changes to ...

Modal e-prescribing alerts were more than three times more effective in preventing prescribing errors than non-modal alerts, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

As a health IT company, Wise Hospice Options integrates with many different systems, particularly electronic health records. The company has integrated with more than 15 EHRs throughout the 21 years ...

A federal measure that encourages using electronic systems for prescriptions beginning in January will help deliver safer and more efficient care to patients while also cutting costs, a Purdue ...

According to statistics published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, U.S. researchers estimated medication errors affect at least 1.5 million people every year and cost the health-care system in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The future has arrived for U.S. doctors when it comes to prescribing medications. Starting next month, Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and ...

Hospitals will benefit from an extra £75m announced to speed up implementation of electronic prescribing systems, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said today on the BBC Victoria Derbyshire programme. A ...