AHRQ Takes a Look at E-Prescribing Issues

According tot his post on FierceHealthIT the AHRQ wants to know how many medical practices have successfully implemented functional e-prescribing systems and what factors hurt and help adoption.

The biggest problem that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has encountered is that most e-prescribing systems do not have the same features, and so rolling out with a national system might be difficult. Also, pharmacies are having trouble with e-prescribing software and integrating it into workflow. Because of this, the AHRQ is planning to conduct a 2 year survey which will include physicians, medical directors, IT administrators, pharmacists and other relevant staff members at 110 organizations as participants.

Study on e-prescribing to start

According to Government Health IT, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality will begin the collection of information in order to help other agencies with the transition e-prescribing. They will be in contact with pharmacies and physicians who already use the process to find out their troubles and find other reasons many doctors aren't making the switch. They'll then use this information to work with health care organizations to work towards the adoption and valuable approaches to increase e-prescribing. Read the full article here.


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