Pharmacy
A recent study out of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston has shown that using bar code technology, in conjunction with electronic medication administration record (eMAR), substantially reduces transcription and medication administration errors as well as related potential drug-related adverse events.
Web tools that were developed as a result of the National Demonstration Project on the patient-centered medical home, an initiative by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and its subsidiary TransforMED, are featured in a report published on Monday that include all of the findings of the two-year project.
A recent study finds that remote online visits with dermatologists achieved equivalent clinical outcomes for acne patients. Also, doctors and patients ranked the e-visits as convenient and time-saving and said they could be used as a model for chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.
Capital BlueCross, of Harrisburg, Pa. has announced a three-year renewal agreement with McLean, Va-based Prematics, Inc. for their electronic prescribing service. More than 1,000 practitioners who provide care for a million patients across central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley use the service.
Kevin Hutchinson serves on the federal Health Information Technology Standards Panel, advising President Barack Obama's national coordinator for health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, on the development and use of health information interoperability standards.
"ePediatrics" could become more common, as parents are requesting more electronic communication with their children's doctor, according to a new poll.
Officials at Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based provider of free electronic health record software, announced Wednesday that the company has launched a free e-prescribing system for physicians.
CVS Caremark has announced an agreement with Allscripts to replace its own e-prescribing solution with the Allscripts model.
The people behind Paperfree Tampa Bay foresee the $18 million initiative as President Barack Obama’s vision made good. They have set their sights for the 10-county, 8,000-physician e-prescribing pilot launched Monday on no less than 100 percent adoption. They’ll achieve it, they say, by going to physicians door-to-door and providing the help they...
