electronic prescribing (eRx)

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E-Prescribing Growth To Pop As Penalties Approach

Michelle McNickle | InformationWeek | January 14, 2013

E-prescription adoption will grow in 2013, but challenges persist in connectivity, funding and state regulations, says Black Book study.
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Electronic Prescribing Reaches Milestone

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | May 21, 2014

Surescripts, which bills itself as the country’s largest health information network, routed more than a billion electronic prescriptions in 2013.  The number represents a majority – 58 percent – of all eligible prescriptions in the United States, sent by 73 percent of all office-based physicians...

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Health IT interoperability by example

John W. Loonsk | Healthcare IT News | August 31, 2015

The health IT interoperability area is so confused now that we really need to look to some very practical examples of where interoperability has been solved, at least at an entry-level, and stop some of the hand-wringing, angst, and casting about. The federal government moving into the next administration and the post – Meaningful Use era, particularly needs to focus its attention and programs to develop "entry-level" interoperability to justify the public's 30 billion dollar EHR investment and make EHR data serve broader health outcomes for patients and populations...

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