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.

E-prescribing rates have hit an all-time high in the United States, with nearly 70 percent of physicians electronically prescribing medicine, according to an ONC report. However, the e-prescribing ...

Electronic prescribing of controlled substances reduces fraud and keeps patients from getting multiple prescriptions for the same drug, but only three states require it and one doesn't even enforce ...

Prediction: 75 percent of physicians will adopt e-prescribing by 2014. Determining how much health-related productivity loss is avoidable is a slippery fish.

JotPsych today announced JotRx, an integrated e-prescribing system that lets clinicians move from session recording to note completion to prescription, all without leaving the patient record.

The market for global e-prescribing is poised for healthy growth over the next four years. Here are five things to know about the global e-prescribing market, according to a Persistence Market ...

Doctors in the U.S. will have access to free, Web-based electronic medicine prescribing software within a month, a group of health-care providers and technology vendors announced Tuesday. The goals of ...

Study conducted by Walgreens and operator of an electronic network shows doctors' use of e-prescribing services leads to increase in filled prescriptions Thirteen U.S. pharmacy software vendors have ...

As a health IT company, Wise Hospice Options integrates with many different systems, particularly electronic health records. The company has integrated with more than 15 EHRs throughout the 21 years ...

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.

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - As many as 75 percent of U.S. doctors will be writing electronic prescriptions within five years, thanks to new federal spending to encourage e-prescribing, according ...