Doctors in the U.S. will have access to free, Web-based electronic medicine prescribing software within a month, a group of health-care providers and technology vendors announced Tuesday. The goals of ...

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A coalition of technology companies and healthcare providers Tuesday announced a $100 million program to offer free access to electronic prescribing software to all U.S. physicians. The National ...

"Once again, Brown-Wilson's research proves that doctors can get the best performance from a completely free EMR," said Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion. "Our community is the largest group of ...

The deal among a county medical society, the state's largest health plan and a medical records software company aims to provide the software to all the doctors in the state. Nevada’s largest health ...

E-prescribing reduced many types of prescribing errors, including route errors, strength errors, use of inappropriate abbreviations and refill errors, and completely eliminated illegibility issues.

Weno Exchange is offering a free e-prescribing service to dental providers who need to electronically prescribe controlled substances (EPCS) to satisfy Medicare's Every Prescription Conveyed Securely ...

December 8, 2008 — Electronic prescribing with formulary decision support to prescribe medications was effective in reducing costs, according to the results of a study reported in the December 8/22 ...

Wellpoint, a participant in the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative, this week is set to disclose plans for a pilot electronic-prescribing project in Ohio. This and other recent efforts by ...

Until recently, providers were prohibited from electronically prescribing controlled substances, but requiring electronic prescriptions for these drugs could be the key to fight opioid abuse. In a ...

Electronic prescriptions have become the default method for prescribing and dispensing in primary care in England, new figures confirmed. The number of items issued electronically to community ...