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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/krall-m-et-al-1995
January 01, 1995 - select code diagnoses, and directly order laboratory, Imaging, and other tests, internal referrals, and prescriptions … select code diagnoses, and directly order laboratory, imaging, and other tests, internal referrals, and prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/lesselroth-bj-felder-rs
January 01, 2023 - The APHID program does not overwrite any data in the health record, nor does it change any medication prescriptions … A small number of providers reviewed medication fill activity or recently expired prescriptions to validate
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/assessment-pediatric-look-alike-sound-alike-lasa-substitution-errors/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - errors have been studied in the pediatric population, the frequency of LASA-specific errors in pediatric prescriptions … highest risk of causing child harm through LASA errors and refining a method for "flagging" individual prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/eRxReport.pdf
April 01, 2008 - Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) sponsors, Medicare Advantage (MA)
Organizations offering Medicare Advantage-Prescription … Concerns over “lost” prescriptions, not being able to transmit
prescriptions electronically for Schedule … clarification or
incorrect prescriptions. … comply with these standards when electronically transmitting prescriptions and prescription
related … Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (PDP): A stand-alone plan that only offers prescription
drug coverage
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/eRxReport_041607_1.pdf
April 01, 2008 - Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) sponsors, Medicare Advantage (MA)
Organizations offering Medicare Advantage-Prescription … Concerns over “lost” prescriptions, not being able to transmit
prescriptions electronically for Schedule … clarification or
incorrect prescriptions. … comply with these standards when electronically transmitting prescriptions and prescription
related … Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (PDP): A stand-alone plan that only offers prescription
drug coverage
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/best-practices-integrating-clinical-decision-support-clinical-workflow
January 01, 2023 - 9.2 percent in the low intensity group and 7.3 percent in the high intensity group, but the rate of prescriptions … intensity group and increased by 4.3 percent in the high intensity group; however, the rate of statin prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/decision-support-emergency-department-improve-medication-safety
January 01, 2023 - More than half of older adults discharged from the ED leave with a new prescription medication. … Across all sites, prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medications reduced after EQUIPPED was implemented … the model used or the EHR in place, EQUIPPED proved successful at all sites in significantly reducing prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs026877-vandenberg-final-report-2022.pdf
January 01, 2022 - More than half of older adults
discharged from the ED leave with a new prescription medication.1,2 … We aim to reduce PIMs in an ED to less than 5% of all prescription. … to
monthly PIM prescription proportions prescribed to patients aged 65 years and older and discharged … prescriptions would decline and that
prescriptions for the muscle relaxant alternative baclofen would … same due to the lack of an order set that suggested any alternative prescription
guidance.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluating-impact-acpoecds-system-outcomes/annual-summary/2009
January 01, 2009 - the e-prescribing system on medication errors and preventable ADEs was estimated by evaluating 5,000 prescriptions … before and 5,000 prescriptions after e-prescribing implementation. … After adjusting for site, prescriber, and prescription type, e-prescribing tasks took marginally longer … At all three sites, nurses spent only 1.1 minutes/hour on prescription-related tasks. … non-significantly greater amount of time conducting computer-related tasks (3.4 minutes/hour), and conducting prescription-related
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digital.ahrq.gov/technology/electronic-prescribing
January 01, 2023 - Understanding the information needs of pharmacy staff using CancelRx: A qualitative study of the use of prescription … Understanding the information needs of pharmacy staff using CancelRx: A qualitative study of the use of prescription … Pharmacy e-prescription dispensing before and after CancelRx implementation. … Patient Outcomes
Impact of CancelRx on discontinuation of controlled substance prescriptions … Impact of CancelRx on discontinuation of controlled substance prescriptions: an interrupted time series
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/experience/morrow-j-2004-davies
January 01, 2004 - "Electronic prescriptions can be managed via fax and e-mail directly from the chart, greatly reducing … Physicians are able to track prescription refill frequency. … It manages orders, procedures, prescriptions, lab results and other data previously collated into patient … "Prescriptions, referrals and orders are generated automatically, again reducing hassles for the patient … support staff to be in the office until 6:00 or 6:30 p.m. finishing paperwork and returning calls for prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/enabling-electronic-prescribing-and-enhanced-management-controlled-medications/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - narcotics, stimulants, sedatives) is expected to increase access to needed medications and reduce risks of prescription … evaluation of a safe, secure, and efficient system for electronic transmission of controlled substance prescriptions … project is developing and testing a data interface between the e-prescribing system and the Massachusetts Prescription … Specific Aims:
Develop, implement, and verify a system of safe and secure electronic transmission of prescriptions … Develop and test the interfacing of this e-prescribing system with the Massachusetts PMP to monitor prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/THQITStoriesWeissman2010.pdf
December 31, 2007 - Electronic prescribing: Lowering Patients’ Prescription Drug Costs
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Electronic Prescribing6 Lowering Patients’ Prescription … Drug Costs
The high cost of prescription drugs drives up the cost of health
care and puts muchneeded … therapeutically equivalent lower cost
medications by 3.3 percent and save approximately $3.26 per
prescription … Once logged into the system, physicians review a
patient’s drug history and electronically fax new prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/scaling-equipped-clinical-decision-support
January 01, 2024 - More than half of older adults receive a new prescription when leaving the ED, contributing to this risk … A prospective evaluation was done measuring the change over 12 months in the proportion of PIM prescriptions … written for older adults at discharge from the ED against all prescriptions written for this population … More than half of older adults discharged from the ED leave with a new prescription medication. … Across all sites, prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medications reduced after EQUIPPED was implemented
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digital.ahrq.gov/2018-year-review/research-spotlights/prototype-computerized-provider-order-entry-system-reduced
January 01, 2018 - Historically, doctors wrote prescriptions in Latin so that patients could not read the reason the medication … However, if the patient has several prescriptions, they may confuse their medications. … If the indication was recorded in the CPOE, pharmacists would have more information about the prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/simon-sr-et-al-2007
January 01, 2007 - considerably fewer reported being able to order laboratory tests electronically (46.8%) or transmit prescriptions … than half of the physicians who had systems with clinical decision support, transmittal of electronic prescriptions … Electronic health records (EHR)
Type of Health IT Functions
Functions studied included electronic prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/hoch-i-et-al-2003
January 01, 2003 - [Link]
Abstract
"More than 20% of approximately 35,000 patients filling a diuretic prescription … complete historical records of patient demographic data, physician data, laboratory results, and filled prescriptions … The inclusion criteria was that they had to have written at least 20 diuretic prescriptions over a 5
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/optimizing-medication-history-value-clinical-encounters-elderly-patients/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - systems are integrated with pharmacy chains, making medication histories and information on unfilled prescriptions … Physicians who used the e-prescribing application and network to transmit prescriptions to pharmacies … medication were coded into themes including general information, knowledge of the drug, discussion of the prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/organization/massachusetts-department-public-health
January 01, 2023 - Description
This project developed the capability to electronically create and securely transmit prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/08-1094.pdf
January 02, 2025 - The first exemption provided for
entities transmitting prescriptions or
prescription-related information … However,
prescriptions paid for in cash that are
not adjudicated through insurance
claims systems, … Commenters stated that if all
facsimiles of prescriptions and
prescription-related information were … Therefore, we applied a
more conservative 7 percent increase in
generic prescriptions. … (2) Prescription.