eHealth Initiative and the Center for Improving Medication Management to Present Report Detailing Both Impact of E-Prescriptions on U.S. Health Care System and Guidelines for Achieving Optim...( Four years of paperless prescript...),Health

Four years of paperless prescription use yields practical guides for physicians, consumers, employers, health plans and policy makers

WASHINGTON, MAY 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The non-profit eHealth Initiative (eHI) and the Center for Improving Medication Management today announced the publish date of a widely anticipated report detailing the impact of electronic prescribing or "e-prescribing" on physicians, consumers, employers, health plans and policy makers nationwide. Based on research as well as actual use of paperless prescribing since 2004, the report summarizes the national experience with e-prescribing technology - from its pilot phase in several states such as California, Massachusetts, Michigan and Rhode Island, to present day use in all 50 states and Washington, DC - and outlines additional steps that should be taken to realize optimal results in health care improvement.

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The report will be released on June 11 in conjunction with a conference in Washington, DC organized by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the eHealth Initiative: Health IT, Electronic Medical Records, Personal Health Records - Transforming Patient Care. For more information about the conference, go to http://www.nacdsfoundation.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1134.

Based on the combined efforts and experience of over 35,000 prescribers and approximately 40,000 pharmacies, the new report comes four years after the eHealth Initiative's seminal 2004 report: Electronic Prescribing: Toward Maximum Value and Rapid Adoption (http://www.ehealthinitiative.org/assets/documents/eHIFullReport-Electronic Prescribing2004.pdf), w
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