AHRQ Researches E-Prescribing Practices
- 10/14/2009
- Author: Audrie Bretl Roelf
- Category: Benchmark Blog
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) plans to collect information from physicians and pharmacies that electronically transmit prescriptions in the hope of identifying what helps and what hinders the adoption of e-prescribing.
AHRQ will interview physicians, medical directors, information technology administrators, pharmacists, and others at 110 organizations over two years, according to a notice in the September 1 Federal Register.
In addition to gaining physician and pharmacy perspectives on e-prescribing, AHRQ will look at how physicians use data regarding the list of accepted drugs from the patient’s health plan and how pharmacies feel about changes in communication with physician practices regarding accepted drugs with e-prescribing.
The study will help the Health and Human Services Department, state and local government, and private health care organizations design ways to promote the adoption and effective use of e-prescribing.
Do any of you use e-prescribing in your organization? How has it worked? Have you received any feedback from pharmacists regarding e-prescribing? Let us know what your experience has been thus far.
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