To prevent drug diversion, prescription forgery and “physician shopping” while also improving patient safety and physician satisfaction, hospitals are implementing electronic prescriptions for ...

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, announced today the release of its new certification programs for ...

In ancient Babylon, healers wrote some of the earliest known prescriptions for medicines by carving instructions into clay tablets. Two and a half millennia later, doctors have given up the stylus, ...

Fast on the heals of a CVS move to expand online services that provide secure Google Health Account downloads for pharmacy customers, Walgreen announced that it had filled 3.1 million prescriptions ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed an association between implementation of a state-mandated electronic prescribing policy ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Four large supermarket companies with a total of more than 2,200 pharmacies recently signed up for a system that will allow them to receive electronic prescriptions from physicians.

Change Healthcare on Friday said it's finished setting up a new electronic prescription service, which it has tested with vendors and retail pharmacy partners. The new service could help provide some ...

Beginning on October 24, 2019, every licensed health care practitioner in Pennsylvania (excluding veterinarians) will be required to electronically prescribe controlled substances (regardless of the ...

The use of electronic health record systems in doctors’ offices and hospitals has hit a major speed bump, and rightly so, with the federal government winning a $145 million civil and criminal ...