With the signature of President Obama in 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) became law. The focus of HITECH was to stimulate adoption of electronic ...

Last year, the Oklahoma legislature joined a growing number of states in taking direct aim at the opioid crisis by enacting legislation designed to combat the forgery of paper prescriptions. More than ...

Gawande questioned why the e-prescribing of controlled substances like opioids, despite being allowed legally, has been adopted in practices representing only 8% of all physicians. Technological ...

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many as 75 percent of U.S. doctors will be writing electronic prescriptions within five years, thanks to new federal spending to encourage e-prescribing, according to a ...

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, announced today the release of its new certification programs for ...

Last week, Vermont became the final state to permit electronic prescribing of all controlled substances. Now providers across the country in all 50 states can prescribe controlled substances ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An automatic electronic computer alert for general practitioners helped identify and reduce excessive ...

Federal officials are seeking comments about challenges clinicians may face in meeting a January 1, 2021, deadline for electronic submission of prescriptions for opioids covered by Medicare's Part D ...

DoseSpot, a developer of e-prescribing integration platforms for medical, dental, and telehealth software, announced that its software application has completed the required third-party Electronic ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story had the wrong date in the headlines. The days of bringing some paper prescriptions to pharmacies are numbered. Starting Jan. 1, six more ...