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- Universal e-prescribing recommended for US
All prescribers and pharmacies should be using e-prescriptions by 2010,
US
experts on drug error prevention have recommended. (Read More)
- Institute of Medicine Issues New Report; Medication Errors Injure 1.5
Million People and Cost Billions of Dollars Annually
Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at
least
1.5 million people every year, says a new report from the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academies. The extra medical costs of
treating
drug-related injuries occurring in hospitals alone conservatively
amount to
$3.5 billion a year, and this estimate does not take into account lost
wages
and productivity or additional healthcare costs, the report says.
(Read More)
- E-prescribing may cut errors
Hundreds of Metro Detroit doctors have already replaced pen-and-paper
prescriptions with electronic orders -- the key recommendation in a
national
study released on Thursday that says drug errors harm or kill 1.5
million
Americans a year. (Read
More)
- Governor signs Executive Order creating new Division of Patient Safety
In an effort to reduce the number of medical errors that claim the
lives of
more than 4,000 Illinoisans and nearly 100,000 Americans each year,
Governor
Rod R. Blagojevich today proposed sweeping and comprehensive changes to
cut
down on errors and improve patient safety. Medical errors cost $1.5
billion
a year - in Illinois alone - contributing to higher insurance premiums,
higher costs for hospital visits and treatments, higher co-pays, higher
insurance rates for doctors and higher costs of prescription drugs. At
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, the Governor today proposed that all
providers use "e-prescribing"
(ReadMore)
- Physicians go mobile.
PDAs have led the way, but smart phones and tablets are gaining ground.
As
for software, the most widely used applications are in the clinical
reference category. But devices linked wirelessly to hospital systems
and
other resources can avail themselves of a wider range of applications.
Emerging areas include e-prescribing and physician order entry.
(Read More)
- Rhode Island ranked No. 1 in U.S. for e-prescribing efforts
Rhode Island doctors may still be a long way from giving up their
prescription pads, but in 2005, they filed more prescriptions online
than
doctors in any other state, two national pharmacy groups and
SureScripts, an
electronic prescription network, said
(Read More)
- Katrina Lessons Should Help Planning Health-Data Access In Other Crises
As the nation prepares for this new hurricane season, government and
private
sector leaders should heed lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina on
how to
help health care providers access victims' medical information.
(Read More)
- A lot can go wrong with prescriptions; e-prescribing aims to change
that
Several months ago, A.J. Petro, 75, a retiree living in Berkeley, went
to
his local drugstore with prescriptions for his wife and himself. It's a
necessary ritual Petro performs regularly - carrying the slips of paper
from
the doctor's office, with medication and dosage scribbled thereon by
the
doctor's hurried hand, and delivering them to a pharmacist's assistant.
He
then sits, or wanders the drugstore aisles, waiting while the medicines
are
prepared. But on this particular day, something went wrong. The
pharmacist
misread the doctor's handwriting.
(Read More)
- Texas Pharmacists Launch Campaign to Help Thousands of Lone Star State
Physicians Start E-Prescribing for Patient Safety, Convenience
Getting Physicians and Pharmacists Connected Could Save Half a Billion
Dollars Annually. The Texas Pharmacy Association and many of the
state's
community pharmacies announced the launch of a statewide campaign
designed
to seize an immediate opportunity within the state to cut healthcare
costs
and save lives.
(Read More)
- Insurers tout efforts to promote health IT
Health insurance companies nationwide are promoting the use of clinical
information technology to help improve patient care and hold down cost
increases, according to a new report from the industry's trade
association.
(Read More)
- OPM plans e-prescribing pilot for some feds
The Office of Personnel Management is asking health plans to work with it to launch a pilot e-prescribing program within the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program next year. (
Read More)
- New Law Exception and Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbor for E-Prescribing and Electronic Health Record Technology
The rules are designed to improve patient safety, efficiency, and quality of care by removing existing barriers to adoption and use of health information technology by physicians. (Read More)
- Physicians are increasingly using Web checks, online searches, E-mail, blogs, audio files, and other Internet technologies in conducting their everyday practices.
"Leading the shift towards the 'digitization' of health information, the data reveal continued growth of physicians using electronic medical records or electronic prescribing," Manhattan Research reported. "In fact, 142,000 physicians report they are actually using the Internet during patient consultations."(Read More)
- Payer E-Prescribing Program Grows
Physicians in the program also have increased their drug cost savings in 2006 by 3% by adhering to formulary information generated by the system. This is double the savings they recorded in 2005, program executives say. (Read More)
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