e-Prescribing
The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 provides economic incentives to encourage physicians to adopt eRx technologies.
E-Prescribing: Why the Fuss? (from FPM)
-- "If its increased safety and other benefits haven't convinced you to get into e-prescribing, maybe Medicare's promised financial incentives will."
e-Prescribing Readiness Assessment
-- This online tool was developed by the Center for Improving Medication Management.
AMA's ePrescribing System Finder
-- Download product detail summaries and find vendor contact info.
National eRx Patient Safety Initiative (free eRx tool)
-- Free eRx software, based on Allscripts ePrescribe from Allscripts™, is available to all physicians in the United States.
DrFirst
-- DrFirst partners with EMR vendors in order to provide integrated eprescribing through the practice's preferred software application.
zixcorp.
-- The zixcorp. product enables prescriptions to be ordered through a secure wireless mobile PDA or secure Web site and delivers them electronically to pharmacies.
Health Information Technology
