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	<title>EHR Scope Blog &#187; ePrescribing</title>
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		<title>New National Drug Safety Program Implemented in Sweden</title>
		<link>http://www.ehrscope.com/blog/new-national-drug-safety-program-implemented-in-sweden/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apoteket, Sweden&#8217;s largest pharmacy chain, and Medco Health Solutions, Inc. recently announced the development of Elektroniskt ExpeditionsStod (EES), one of the first national centralized drug utilization review (DUR) programs outside of the United States. This program is intended to improve prescription safety by reducing adverse drug events and thereby reducing the drug related hospitalizations. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The E-prescribing Boom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-prescribing is one important component of EHRs. Retail pharmacies are realizing the potential for e-prescribing to increase their safety and productivity, such as Walgreens. The national pharmacy chain&#8217;s electronic prescriptions recently reached 4 million in October 2009, a 185-percent increase from the year prior.
It is projected that Walgreens will fill more than 45 million electronic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incentives for EHR Adoption: Pay Now or Pay Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Initiatives]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ehrscope.com/blog/?p=639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has announced that starting January 2010, healthcare providers will have the option to use electronic health record systems to report Medicare quality and electronic prescribing measures to CMS in some of its pay-for-performance programs. The revisions are designed “to promote adoption and use of electronic health records and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incentive Payments for E-prescribing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EHR Industry Analyst</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ehrscope.com/blog/?p=587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In its attempts to widely disperse and advocate the use of electronic prescribing (or more popularly known as e-prescribing), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun providing incentive payments of up to 2 percent to eligible physicians and other health care providers using this technology for the year 2009.
According to the Medicare E-prescribing Incentive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Prescribing in Rhode Island: Connecting Public Health and Clinical Medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public health and clinical medicine have different models of care. While little similarities exist between them, health IT may finally present a common thread.
The core principles of public health are focused on preventing and reducing the burden of disease on communities or entire populations. Public health is concerned with health and wellness; prevention of disease; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Error reduction and efficiency through E-prescribing (E-Rx)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EHR Industry Analyst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electronic prescribing is a replacement of the traditional method used by physicians to manually write down the medications for patient. This application allows health practitioners to electronically send a prescription directly to a pharmacy of patient’s choice. Transfer of information is done over a secure network that ensures privacy of individuals and rapidly connects the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New features added to the E-prescribing module of CareTracker EMR solution from Ingenix</title>
		<link>http://www.ehrscope.com/blog/new-features-added-to-the-e-prescribing-module-of-caretracker-emr-solution-from-ingenix/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EHR Industry Analyst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ingenix, the healthcare technology subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, has announced the addition of new features to the electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) functionality of its CareTracker EMR solution. The new Surescripts certified features will allow CareTracker users quick and easy to access patient medication histories and drug benefit information at the point of care.
E-prescribing is a process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Research Reveals Effectiveness of E-Prescribing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Study: e-prescribing prevents errors even if doctors override most alerts
FierceHealthIT
In a study conducted by Boston&#8217;s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, researchers have concluded that drug interaction alerts in ambulatory e-prescribing systems are effective at reducing both adverse drug events and medical costs.
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		<title>e-Prescribing Helps Doctors Pick Cheaper Drugs</title>
		<link>http://www.ehrscope.com/blog/e-prescribing-helps-doctors-pick-cheaper-drugs/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[e-Prescribing Helps Doctors Pick Cheaper Drugs
InjuryBoard.com
Only six percent of U.S. doctors currently use “e-prescribing” although doing so may improve efficiency and reduce medication errors such as a pharmacy technician misreading a doctor’s messy handwriting or dispensing a different drug with a similar name.
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		<title>Updates on eRX or e-Prescribing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsayp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updates on eRX or e-Prescribing
Keely&#8217;s Blog
Here is a good document on eRX that also summarizes the legislation going on in this area. Note that, &#8220;E-prescribing has been the subject of a significant amount of attention recently from Congress, after the introduction of legislation in both the House and the Senate that would provide financial incentives [...]]]></description>
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