e Rx passes 1 billion mark, SureScripts reports

By Joseph Conn

Electronic prescription network as handles more than 1 billion e recipes moved the bulk of e-Rx country last year by SureScripts, traffic. More than 70% of doctors are now e prescriber. Delaware, for the second year in a row, as the top state for e-Rx, with 81% of its physicians routinely reported with the technology, SureScripts.

The data are part of the SureScripts ' 2013 national progress report and the SafeRx rankings. "

All scheduled drugs excluded - and currently e-prescribing some permitted 48 States of a certain level - 1.04 billion recipes, including 106 million mines, according to SureScripts acting CEO Paul Uhrig were e prescribed i.e. 32% in 2013, more than in the year before.

Another way saw, were 58% of all "eligible" securities (written and completed within a hospital are also excluded) routed electronically over the network according to the report.

In 2001, the two most important pharmacy associations, the National Association of chain drug stores and community pharmacist was association with both formed to promote the introduction and use of electronic prescribing of SureScripts. In 2006, SureScripts claimed only 16,000 e recipes.

E-prescribing lever, the Medicare improvements for patients joined the Federal and applied providers act 2008 and the American recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which set both incentive payments and the threat sanctions by Medicare to encourage the use of the technology available.

Research shows that "There is no doubt", that both computer science in general have increased the incentives under MPPA and the ARRA using health and e-prescribing particular Uhrig said. And when providers begin to use the technology, to hold them, to use it, European Commission research shows, he said.

Patients are also more inclined to pick their initial notes, if they are written and electronically, Uhrig said. "If you have a paper script, put it in the glove box; Forget and never go." But if they know that the recipe was actually sent and waiting for them, they tend to go more and more frequently in the pharmacy.

Why Delaware?

Cooperation, said Uhrig. Prescribers, pharmacies, and health information technology developers have to work before a prescription from e-initiative can unfold, he said. And in Delaware, the level of cooperation is at its highest.

But it grows everywhere in the United States, show the SureScripts data. While Delaware among the top every year since 2007 5 States began ranking list was, Minnesota No. 2 for the second year in a row. In the meantime, 10 for the first time in the past year moved Wisconsin (No. 4), North Dakota (6) and Connecticut (7) at the top.

In the year 2013, at least 45% of eligible prescriptions routed electronically all States, a percentage rate that is high enough, been no. 1 by a margin of 13 percentage points, according to the report in 2009 would be.