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21. A Toolset for E-Prescribing Implementation in Independent Pharmacies (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - In pharmacies that are not yet enabled for electronic prescriptions, the prescription is converted into … Requirements for Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans Medicare Part D prescription drug plans … Profile Each Prescription! … utilize, the degree to which e-prescriptions are integrated into the overall flow of prescription … In addition to handling the basic standards for prescriptions and prescription claims, Medicare Part

22. Tool 7.4: Sample MD to Pharmacy Outreach | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Partner: We would like to let you know that physicians at our practice are now able to send electronic prescriptions … Our physicians can also send new prescriptions directly to the computers at these pharmacies without … faxing, phoning, or writing a paper prescription. … This connection will ensure that you can receive new prescriptions on your computer as well as the ability

23. Enabling Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - This deficit has meant that prescriptions for controlled substances must be manually written or signed … , and historically have not been transmitted electronically along with other prescriptions. … were to: 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 Prescriptions Monitoring … Program (PMP) to monitor prescription fraud and nonmedical use of controlled medications.

24. Determinants of physician use of an ambulatory prescription expert system | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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    September 01, 2005 - Determinants of physician use of an ambulatory prescription expert system Authors:  Schectman … whether MD experience with and attitude towards computers is associated with adoption of ambulatory prescription … Intervention:  Installation of an electronic prescription writing system Evaluation Method:  Attitude … Description:  Commercially available prescription expert system called Practice Partner version 7.5 enabled … Some felt their patients preferred hand-written prescriptions.

25. Christakis DA et al. 2001 "A randomized controlled trial of point-of-care evidence to improve the antibiotic prescribing practices for otitis media in children." | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/christakis-da-et-al
    January 01, 2023 - antibiotics for otitis media decreases the duration of therapy from 10 days and decreases the frequency of prescriptions … Proportion of prescriptions for otitis media that were for <10 days and frequency with which antibiotics … antibiotics for otitis media decreases the duration of therapy from 10 days and decreases the frequency of prescriptions … The system prints out a copy of the prescription, which providers sign." … which are entered by Workflow-Related Findings "During the baseline period, 50.7% of all prescriptions

26. E-prescribing Impact on Patient Safety, Use and Cost (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2007 - relative to a written prescription). … Any prescriptions filled during that time were matched with the original prescription to form a “co-exposure … received an e-prescription • Patients receiving e-prescriptions were slightly more likely to be … Patient characteristics Intervention Control Total Patients Ever got e-prescription Never got e-prescription … relative to before the first e-prescription.

27. Schectman JM et al. 2005 "Determinants of physician use of an ambulatory prescription expert system." | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2005 - Determinants of physician use of an ambulatory prescription expert system. … in system adoption and degree of usage, though 72% of physicians reported predominant usage (>50% of prescriptions … was more time consuming and also more likely to believe that their patients preferred hand-written prescriptions … Forty-three percent of physicians felt using the e-Rx was faster than handwriting prescriptions. … Twenty-four percent of physicians would prefer to continue with handwritten prescriptions.

28. Impact of Office-Based E-Prescribing on Prescribing Processes and Outcomes - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2011 - Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing), which allows prescribers to write prescriptions electronically … Ninety-seven percent of respondents reported that they were able to send prescriptions electronically … least half of physicians said that their use of e-prescribing made it easier for them to take care of prescription … refills themselves, have staff take care of refills, batch process refills, write an initial prescription … those using e-prescribing for more than three years averaged 33 e-prescriptions per week.

29. Rivkin S 1997 "Opportunities and challenges of electronic physician prescribing technology." | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/rivkin-s-1997
    January 01, 1997 - transfers, and problematic prescriptions requiring review." … "Some offices were able to enter prescriptions through this system only when fully staffed. … [One] office said this tool was used only when patients had multiple prescriptions." … "However, many physician offices continued to phone in prescriptions or write them out by hand since … In fact, prescriptions would often sit on the fax machine until the patient arrived ...

30. AHRQ's Guide to Evaluating Health Information Exchange Projects - Appendix D (pdf file)
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    November 14, 2014 - e-prescribing system in an outpatient practice, the office manager believed they were making a large number of prescription … errors, maybe as high as one in every four prescriptions, or 25 percent. … , you might observe the following: Before After Number of Errors in 100 Sampled Prescriptions 27 3 … Since the number of observed events (prescription errors) is so small both before and after implementing … the e-prescribing system, the errors may have shown up in the sampled prescriptions by chance.

31. Return on Investment Calculator for Pharmacy E-Prescribing Toolset (xls file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/tool-5.1-erx-net-benefit-calculator.xls
    September 29, 2011 - and send refill requests electronically, alongside the traditional types of prescriptions (i.e. fax-in … pharmacy system vendor for handling e-prescriptions. … below New prescription by fax 13 New prescription by phone 3 New prescription by walk in 23 New … by fax 14 72 90 10% New prescription by phone 68 81 120 10% New prescription by walk in 34 73 120 … New prescription by fax 1 New prescription by phone 2 (3) New prescription by walk in 3 New prescription

32. Prescription Screening Form | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Prescription Screening Form Description This is a form to classify prescriptions … Document Source Statewide Implementation of Electronic Health Records PDF Prescription

33. Enabling Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/enabling-electronic-prescribing-and-enhanced-management-controlled-medications/annual-summary/2012
    January 01, 2012 - project developed and tested a data interface between the e-prescribing system and the Massachusetts Prescription … Develop and test the interfacing of this e-prescribing system with the Massachusetts PMP to monitor prescription … improved and in many cases the prescription was ready when the patient arrived at the pharmacy. … for controlled substances (e.g., incorrect drug or dose was prescribed, prescription altered, or reported … lost and required replacing), but not others (counterfeit prescription was discovered).

34. Understanding CancelRx: Impact on Clinical Workflows, Medication Safety Risks, and Patient Outcomes – Final Report (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs026584-pitts-final-report-2022.pdf
    January 01, 2022 - Optimal implementation of CancelRx would facilitate identification of all prescriptions that … prescriptions in the pharmacy system. … and generation of a new prescription for both pharmacy types. … contribute to multiple active prescriptions at the pharmacy. … With duplicate prescriptions in the pharmacy, multiple prescriptions may need to be deactivated to ensure

35. E-Prescribing Impact on Patient Safety, Use, and Cost | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Approximately 7.4 million filled prescriptions, over 212,000 of which were e-prescriptions, were included … Over 35,000 clinicians and over 1.5 million patients were identified with a filled prescription claim … Of these 1,198 clinicians wrote one or more e-prescription that was filled by 64,749 patients. … Early results also indicated that patients getting e-prescriptions had less severe potential drug-drug … Primary medication non-adherence: analysis of 195,930 electronic prescriptions.

36. Measures of Impact for BLUES project (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/resource/Karen_Fox_IQHIT_Q4_Measures_of_Impact_for_BLUES_Project.pdf
    April 16, 2009 - (1) Appropriate drug prescriptions; (2) Formulary compliance; (3) Patient compliance with medication … Timely refills of medication -% of patients receiving appropriate care for medication therapy -% of prescriptions … complying with formulary -% of prescriptions filled** -% of prescriptions filled timely* **Limited … only (not prints, faxes) -% of patients receiving appropriate care for medication therapy -% of prescriptions … complying with formulary -% of prescriptions filled** -% of prescriptions filled timely*

37. Prescribing Patterns of Preferred or Formulary Medications (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2009 - After implementation of this functionality, Zoloft® prescriptions decreased from 4.7 to 2.4 percent … of total selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) prescriptions (from 1,042 to 738 total Zoloft … ® prescriptions).4 Researchers in an urban academic medical center implemented decision support for … Compared with the control group, the prescription ratio for high­cost drug classes was 17.5 percent … The tier 2 prescription rate decreased by 5.2 percent (95% CI, −5.9 to −4.5 percent) in the intervention

38. Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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    Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs … Intervention:  Compared new prescription costs for providers using an electronic prescribing system with … control clinicians matched by pharmacy billed amount, number of patients treated, and number of new prescriptions … group, and the mean cost for new and refilled prescriptions was $4.99 lower (p=.01). … Six month savings for new prescriptions and their refills was estimated as $3,450 per clinician.

39. Enabling Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/r18hs017157-carrow-annual-summary-2012.pdf
    January 01, 2012 - project developed and tested a data interface between the e-prescribing system and the Massachusetts Prescription … Develop and test the interfacing of this e-prescribing system with the Massachusetts PMP to monitor prescription … improved and in many cases the prescription was ready when the patient arrived at the pharmacy. … for controlled substances (e.g., incorrect drug or dose was prescribed, prescription altered, or reported … lost and required replacing), but not others (counterfeit prescription was discovered).

40. Closing the Communication Gap Between Prescribers and Pharmacists to Decrease Medication Safety Risks | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - orders between electronic health records and pharmacies, showed an immediate and persistent reduction in prescriptions … a patient’s medication, the prescription change is updated in the provider’s electronic health record … always reflected in a pharmacy’s medication list for the patient, which can lead to erroneously filling prescriptions … The tool allows pharmacists to have patients’ current prescription information and notifies them when … a provider discontinues a patient’s prescription.