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2007

SureScripts CEO Ready to Build Next Health IT Initiative
Media Newswire, December 18, 2007
In 2007, more than 35,000 prescribers electronically connected to more than 40,000 community pharmacies and generated more than 35 million electronic prescription transactions. In 2008, e-prescription transaction volume will nearly triple.

Are E-Prescriptions the Right Medicine?
The Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2007
The comments by Sen. Kerry and Mr. Gingrich "E-Prescriptions," (editorial page Nov. 16) concerning "e-prescribing" are, in large part, on the mark. Eliminating poor handwriting will create a safer and more efficient medication use process.

First Health Services and RxHub Announce Partnership Agreement to Provide ePrescribing Services for Medicaid Recipients
Business Wire, October 19, 2007
“The secured access to 11 million Medicaid and Senior Prescription Drug Program (SPAP) lives managed by First Health Services will provide authorized physicians with the critical patient information needed at the point of care. This allows physicians to make informed decisions at the point of prescribing and enables physicians to send electronic prescriptions to the patient’s choice of pharmacy.”

EPrescribing option makes sense for all
Nashua Telegraph, September 25, 2007
Last week, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire – the state's largest health insurance provider – and the New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative announced the start of ePrescribing, a statewide electronic prescribing program aimed at every physician

Pharmacy benefit managers push Medicare e-prescribing
A Med News, August 13, 2007
In a PCMA-commissioned study, the Gorman Health Group concluded that requiring doctors and pharmacies to handle all Part D prescriptions electronically by 2010 would reduce federal health care costs by $29 billion and avoid 1.6 million adverse drug events over the next decade.

Marshall Sponsors Free Electronic Prescribing
The State Journal, July 18, 2007
Through a partnership with the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative, Marshall University's Center for Rural Health will offer West Virginia doctors free use and training of software that will let them write prescriptions electronically.

E-Prescribing: A Cure for Medical Malpractice?
Law Technology News, June 20, 2007
Beyond conveying prescriptions, systems can alert doctors to potential drug interactions or dosing problems, eliminate handwriting errors, automate the time-consuming renewal process, provide data on a patient's drug plan, and potentially cut thousands of pharmacy calls to doctors. Hospitals, insurers, technology companies, regional collaboratives and pharmacies have been working to advance adoption of e-prescribing.

ProVation Medical to Offer One-Click Access to Electronic Prescribing Solution
Business Wire, May 18, 2007
eRx NOW™ is an easy-to-use, web-based e-prescribing solution that is safe, secure, requires no downloading and no new hardware. It is being offered by Allscripts as part of NEPSI, which was developed in response to the high number of medical errors that plague the US healthcare system. The $100 million NEPSI initiative, led by Allscripts and Dell, is comprised of a coalition of healthcare, technology and provider companies dedicated to improving patient safety by offering free electronic prescribing to every physician in America.

First EHNAC E-Prescribing Network Accreditation
Hartford Business News, April 15, 2007
The focus of the EHNAC ePrescribing Accreditation is on transmission timeliness for both electronic and fax ePrescribing transactions, timeliness of transaction processing, compliance with industry standards using NCPDP, X12, HL7 formats, and security and privacy for new prescriptions and renewals.

E-Prescribing Soon to Be Reality in W.Va.
WBoy, March 15, 2007
The law previously would not allow prescriptions to be sent through an electronic intermediary. As part of his 2007 legislation agenda, Manchin proposed SB69 to correct that problem.

GM and WellPoint are partners in e-prescribing pilot
A Med News, February 12, 2007
General Motors Corp. and WellPoint Inc. announced on Jan. 22 that they will pay for software and hardware costs to encourage 100 doctors in Ohio to test electronic prescribing.

LighthouseMD to Underwrite Cost of ePrescribing Technology for Rhode Island's Physician Practices in 2007
GEN News, January 8, 2007
The ePrescribing underwriting initiative follows Rhode Island Gov. Donald L. Carcieri's allotment of $20 million to create a secure health care information exchange network, linking physician practices to pharmacies. In this network, electronic health records (EHRs) are shared, allowing for safer, faster prescription fulfillment for patients.

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