For e-prescribing to realize its full potential for improving the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of prescription drug delivery, important work remains to be carried out. Significant strides ...

Imagine the challenge a pediatrician faces when seeing a new patient and trying to determine what medications they might be taking, especially if the patient’s parents didn’t write them down before ...

Digital health tools that allow providers to electronically prescribe controlled medications can improve care management and curb drug misuse if they're used correctly. Digital health technology has ...

To prevent drug diversion, prescription forgery and “physician shopping” while also improving patient safety and physician satisfaction, hospitals are implementing electronic prescriptions for ...

In a report to Congress released yesterday, HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt announced the results of an electronic prescribing pilot project that support the adoption of new electronic prescribing ...

With nearly two decades of retail management and project management experience, Brett Day can simplify complex traditional and Agile project management philosophies and methodologies and can explain ...

WASHINGTON — Thirteen U.S. pharmacy software vendors have voiced support for electronic prescribing efforts, each committing to a formal campaign to educate pharmacists on the benefits of ...

In ancient Babylon, healers wrote some of the earliest known prescriptions for medicines by carving instructions into clay tablets. Two and a half millennia later, doctors have given up the stylus, ...

Historically, a retail pharmacy unable to fill an initial electronic prescription for Schedule II-V controlled substances could not transfer it to another pharmacy – even if the two pharmacies were ...

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 ...