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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some e-prescribing systems rely too much on patients to remember details about their medications and are vulnerable to delays when pharmacy networks crash, according to members of an HHS workgroup.

Furthermore, physicians responded differently to all levels of alerts. The researchers concluded the correlation between intermediate and high-level alerts is insufficient to identify physicians who ...

The four-year bonus program aims to improve the prescription process and cut down on the frequency of drug errors, which injured 1.5 million Americans annually, according to the Institute of Medicine.

While many e-prescribing systems have features to provide access to important external patient information, including drugs prescribed by physicians in other practices, physician practices face ...

Just in time to take effect along with the Medicare prescription drug benefit on Jan. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has made official its starter set of standards for Medicare ...

E-prescribing reduced many types of prescribing errors, including route errors, strength errors, use of inappropriate abbreviations and refill errors, and completely eliminated illegibility issues.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors who trade in their prescription pads for electronic prescribing systems may be able to significantly cut down on medication errors, a small study suggests.

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 ...

Medical cannabis remains the only controlled substance in the state for which physicians cannot monitor patient use, confirm dosing, or intervene when patterns of risky behavior emerge ...