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 ...

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.

Health information network Surescripts has named the winners of its 2015 White Coat of Quality Award, which recognizes health systems and vendors for achieving zero content errors in e-prescribing.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors who trade in their prescription pads for electronic prescribing systems may be able to significantly cut down on medication errors, a small study suggests.

An article that appeared in the July 19 Buffalo News, "Report shows local increase in electronic prescriptions," noted that 27 percent of doctors in Western New York currently use an e-prescribing ...

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 ...

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 ...