Pharmacy
The electronic prescribing rate in upstate New York increased from 12 percent in 2009 to 17 percent in the first quarter of 2010, representing 3.6 million new and renewed prescriptions on an annual basis, according to a new report. The report suggests that this number will grow significantly as the result of the technology becoming more affordable, due in part to the government's incentives for health IT adoption.
On July 13, 2010, the government released amended meaningful use objectives and measures for eligible professionals, hospitals and critical access hospitals.
The TriZetto Group Inc. announced this week a partnership with professors who founded the value-based insurance design movement to develop chronic-condition templates as options for healthcare payer customers of TriZetto's Value-Based Benefits Solution.
E-mail use between patients with diabetes and hypertension and their doctors resulted in improved quality of care scores, according to a study of patients in Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region.
The global market for clinical decision support systems will increase dramatically over the coming years, from $137.5 million in 2009 to $364 million by 2016, according to a new report from market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
Tufts Medical Center physicians are conducting live medical consultations with patients in earthquake-ravaged areas in Haiti from their facilities in Massachusetts.
For the three million veterans living in rural areas, access to healthcare remains a key barrier, Rep. Michael F. Michaud (D-Maine), chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Health, said in his opening remarks at a hearing Wednesday. But the use of wireless technology could help, he said.
The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners Healthcare, announced Wednesday encouraging initial findings from a medication adherence study, using a wireless electronic pill bottle to remind patients with high blood pressure to take their medication.
Electronic prescribing allows physicians to monitor their patients medication use in detail, and although this may require more time, a new study of asthma patients finds it can have a significant payoff.
A recent study out of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston has shown that using bar code technology, in conjunction with electronic medication administration record (eMAR), substantially reduces transcription and medication administration errors as well as related potential drug-related adverse events.