[PrvPracNP] electronic prescription system

[Barbara C. Phillips]

Good Morning,

 

Page 9 of their FAQ's say that yes, NP's and PA's may also use the service.

 

 

 

Barbara C. Phillips, NP

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Subject: [PrvPracNP] electronic prescription system

 

says 'doctors' but it might be for NPs and PAs also

 

Doctors offered electronic prescription system
Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:35 PM ET

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. doctors are being offered free access to a
system to prescribe drugs to patients electronically in a bid to reduce
errors caused by handwritten prescriptions, a coalition of companies said on
Tuesday.

The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative aims to coax physicians
and pharmacies to use a Web-based prescription system designed to prevent
medication errors often caused by illegible handwritten paper prescriptions.

At a news conference to unveil the plan, its advocates cited a 2006
Institute of Medicine report that found that more than 7,000 people die and
at least 1.5 million are harmed by preventable medication errors in the
United States annually.

They said the new system involves no cost to the doctor and requires minimal
training.

The initiative involves several leading technology companies and health care
providers, as well as politically well-connected figures including Newt
Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

"I'm very optimistic that e-prescribing is going to become commonly used,"
said Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc., a provider
of medical software that along with computer maker Dell Inc. is leading the
coalition of companies behind the plan.

Doctors are being invited to register for the program online at
(http://www.nationalerx.com).

"In the 21st century, the legibility of a doctor's handwriting should not
determine whether a patient lives or dies," said Gingrich, who founded the
advocacy group Center for Health Transformation.

"Yet the paper prescription system has remained essentially unchanged for
200 years. There is simply no excuse for medical errors when they are caused
by an antiquated system that can easily be modernized and replaced,"
Gingrich added.

Dr. Nancy Dickey, former president of the American Medical Association,
called electronic prescribing a way to improve patient safety.

"You would think if you were a pharmacist and you couldn't clearly read what
I (as a doctor) had written, that you would simply pick up the phone and
call. But it's astonishing how often they make their best guess," said
Dickey, president of the Texas A&M University Health Science Center.

Only about a fifth of U.S. doctors currently prescribe drugs electronically,
with the rest clinging to pen and paper.

 

 

Gail Neuman RNC CPHW SNP LNC
student nurse practitioner and student midwife
certified high risk OB/legal nurse consultant
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