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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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Calendar of Events

AAFP Scientific Assembly September 18-20, 2008 San Diego Ca
Booth #4411

Pri-Med
New York October 3-5, 2008 Booth #447

AAO American
Academy of Ophthalmology November 8-11, 2008. Atlanta Ga Booth #2910

Pri-Med South Ft.
Lauderdale Fl February 13-15, 2009 Booth #1205

Pri-Med Midwest Rosemont
IL March 5-7, 2009 Booth #1425

Pri-Med
Southwest Houston TX March 19-21, 2009 Booth #856

Pri-Med
West Anaheim Ca May 7-9, 2009 Booth #266

Pri-Med
New York Oct. 2-4, 2009 Booth #TBD

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OA Systems Completes SureScripts Certification for Electronic Prescribing Connectivity Between Physicians and Pharmacies (Read More)

New E-Prescribing Software Eliminates Handwritten Prescriptions (Read More)

OA Systems, Inc. Accepted as Member of American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Partners for Patients Program (Read More)

OA Systems Has Successful Open House (Read More)

OA Systems signs on with SureScripts to send electronic prescriptions to over 90 percent of pharmacies nationwide via RxCureT (Read More)

OA Systems Moves to Larger Facility (Read More)

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