Electronic Prescribing


The Power Point presentation from the CMS conference on electronic prescribing held in Boston October 7, 2008 titled "The Business Case for Providers: Economics of Adoption" is available by clicking here (slides in this presentation may be viewed but not copied, or otherwise used or distributed without permission). To learn more about the conference click here.


The Power Point presentation from the presentation on electronic prescribing presented at the HIMSS Summit in San Diego on 6/25/07 is available by clicking here (slides in this presentation may be viewed but not copied, or otherwise used or distributed without permission)

The Power Point presentation from the Electronic Prescribing presentation given at HIMSS 2007 Annual meeting in New Orleans is available by clicking here (slides in this presentation may be viewed but not copied or distributed without permission)

his page also includes links to materials from the HIMSS 2005 meeting held in February.

The Electronic Prescribing Handout from HIMSS conference February 14, 2005 is available by clicking here (This handout includes the slides from the talk except the slides with large amounts of graphics which made the file to large)

A Word document containing just the list of references from the Electronic Prescribing talk is available by clicking here.

Electronic Prescribing Web Links:
 
  1. Point-of-Care Partners, LLC (POCP) is a consortium of independent general management and marketing health care IT consultants with a strong current ePrescribing practice. A free e-newsletter is available that contains very useful information http://www.pocp.com
  2. Electronic prescribing: criteria for evaluating handheld prescribing systems and an evaluation of a new, handheld, wireless wide area network (WWAN) prescribing system by Orin M. Goldblum, M.D., Dermatology Online Journal 7 (1):1  http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol7num1/media_review/ephysician/goldblum.html
  3. DEA site on Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances -     http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/ecomm/e_rx/index.html
  4. MedsInfo project of MA-SHARE initiative in Massachusetts -  http://www.mahealthdata.org/ma-share/projects/medsinfo.html
  5. SureScripts web site: http://www.surescript.com/index.htm
  6. RxHub web site: http://www.rxhub.net
  7. CMS site on MMA (Medicare Modernization Act): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicarereform
  8. Link to RAND study on expert recommendations for electronic prescribing systems:  http://www.rand.org/health/eRx
  9. Recommendations For Comparing Electronic Prescribing Systems: Results of An Expert Consensus Process: Douglas S. Bell 1*, Richard S. Marken 2, Robin C. Meili 3, C. Jason Wang 4, Mayde Rosen 5, Robert H. Brook 6, RAND Electronic Prescribing Expert Advisory  http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w4.305
  10. Links regarding the e-prescribing rule for the MMA (Medicare Modernization Act)  published by CMS February 4, 2005:
    1. The news release is at http://www.dhhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20050127.html.
    2. The proposed rule is at http://www.regulations.gov/freddocs/05-01773.htm.
    3. Submit comments by going to http://www.cms.hhs.gov/regulations/ecomments/ and following directions there by April 5.