According to statistics published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, U.S. researchers estimated medication errors affect at least 1.5 million people every year and cost the health-care system in ...

Clinicians using an electronic prescribing system appear more likely to prescribe lower-cost medications, reducing drug spending, according to a report in the December 8/22 issue of Archives of ...

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.

The researchers concluded the correlation between intermediate and high-level alerts is insufficient to identify physicians who are at high risk of making serious prescribing errors. Read the study ...

While many e-prescribing systems have features to provide access to important external patient information, including drugs prescribed by physicians in other practices, physician practices face ...

Recent study findings show electronic prescribing systems fall short in identifying physicians at higher risk of making a serious prescribing error for quality assurance purposes, according to a study ...

The four-year bonus program aims to improve the prescription process and cut down on the frequency of drug errors, which injured 1.5 million Americans annually, according to the Institute of Medicine.

Just in time to take effect along with the Medicare prescription drug benefit on Jan. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has made official its starter set of standards for Medicare ...

A federal measure that encourages using electronic systems for prescriptions beginning in January will help deliver safer and more efficient care to patients while also cutting costs, a Purdue ...

Most facility operators responding to a new survey say that their next technology-related purchase will be an e-prescribing system. That’s according to findings relayed in the Aug. 9 McKnight’s Super ...

Hospitals will benefit from an extra £75m announced to speed up implementation of electronic prescribing systems, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said today on the BBC Victoria Derbyshire programme. A ...