Emerging and Encouraging Trends in E-Prescribing Adoption Among Providers and Pharmacies

作者：Gabriel Meghan H^*; Furukawa Michael F; Vaidya Varun

来源：American Journal of Managed Care, 2013, 19(9): 760-764.

Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the growth in provider (physician, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant) adoption of e-prescribing and the growth in pharmacies actively accepting e-prescriptions using nationally representative data from December 2008 to December 2012. Additionally, this study explored e-prescribing adoption variation by urban and rural counties. %26lt;br%26gt;Study Design: Descriptive analysis of nationally representative, transactional e-prescribing data. %26lt;br%26gt;Methods: Data for this analysis were from Surescripts. Surescripts is a leading e-prescription network utilized by a majority of all chain, franchise, or independently owned pharmacies in the United States routing prescriptions for more than 240 million patients through their network. %26lt;br%26gt;Results: The total number of prescribers, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants e-prescribing via an electronic health record (EHR) on the Surescripts network has increased from 7% to 54%. Additionally, the number of pharmacies actively accepting e-prescriptions is 94%. These increases in pharmacies actively accepting e-prescriptions and the provider%26apos;s e-prescribing mirror the increase in the volume of e-prescriptions sent on the Surescripts network. %26lt;br%26gt;Conclusions: This analysis shows that the vast majority of pharmacies in the United States are able to accept e-prescriptions and over half of providers are e-prescribing via an EHR.

• 出版日期2013-9