November 4, 2011
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Last week, I attended the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) conference in Washington, DC. This conference is the largest U.S. gathering of practitioners, researchers, academics, and government/policy professionals working in informatics.
May 12, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Surescripts released its annual 2010 progress report on ePrescribing, which reported across the board increases in prescriptions being routed electronically, electronic responses to requests for prescription benefit information, and prescription histories being delivered to prescribers. One of the reports most salient findings was the 72 percent rise in prescriptions being routed electronically from 191 million in 2009 to 326 million in 2010.
April 5, 2011 David Raths
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In response to the public comments to its proposals for Stage 2 of meaningful use, the federal Health IT Policy Committee’s Meaningful Use Workgroup suggested altering several proposed thresholds and raised the prospect of a new menu item involving recording a patient’s family health history.
February 21, 2011 John DeGaspari
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Barry Chaiken, M.D., chief medical officer of DocsNetwork, Ltd., and moderator for the HIMSS11 session, Achieving Meaningful Use: From Theory to Practice, on Sunday, is confident that meaningful use will transform healthcare. “The time is now and it is going to happen,” he said. Meaningful use s the tool that will make transformation happen, he said. “We are still figuring out how it is going to happen,” he said.
July 30, 2010 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Earlier this month the Center for Studying Health System Change, based in Washington, D.C., released its issue brief, “Even When Physicians Adopt E-Prescribing, Use of Advanced Features Lags” that showed that about 1 in 3 office-based physicians routinely e-prescribed in 2008 and even fewer used advanced features like transmitting prescriptions electronically, identifying potential drug interactions, and checking formulary information. HSC senior researcher Joy Grossman, Ph.D. spoke with HCI associate editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo about these interesting findings.
July 29, 2010 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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I spoke with Joy Grossman, M.D., earlier this week on her recent electronic prescribing study with the Center for Studying Health System Change. I was initially puzzled by one of the main findings that a chunk of doctors (23.1 percent) who had e-prescribing in their practices used it only occasionally or not at all. And one step further, fewer than a quarter of doctors with systems that have advanced functions—identifying potential drug interactions, transmitting prescriptions to pharmacies electronically, and checking patient formulary information— routinely used all of them. I wondered why clinicians wouldn’t use a tool they already had that made prescribing a lot easier and helped check for drug interactions.
April 22, 2010 Daphne Lawrence
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As the volume of electronic prescribing begins to grow dramatically, what challenges and opportunities face hospital and health system CIOs? Many, say those in the trenches. Indeed, as CIOs and industry observers look out at a rapidly changing landscape, they say the time is now to prepare on a detailed, practical level to support enterprise-wide e-prescribing solutions for all affiliated physicians.
April 6, 2010 David Raths
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For an upcoming issue of Healthcare Informatics, I have been working on a feature story that identifies a handful of healthcare IT-related issues that have proven difficult for policymakers to solve.
August 28, 2009
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Now that universal e-Prescribing is destined, thanks to ARRA/HITECH, my question is, do any of the e-Prescribing solutions help the physicians write prescriptions that are both clinically and economically appropriate for patients?
July 21, 2009 Daphne Lawrence
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According to a recent report from Orem, Utah-based KLAS, pharmacy information systems earn the lowest satisfaction ratings of any area ranked. Though some pharmacy systems deliver a solid product, for many, the integration with a separate core clinical system for this high-volume area is becoming too risky.
April 16, 2009 By Michael Craige
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Consider the tactical challenges of e-prescribing adoption in the clinic setting.
