A National Web Conference on Electronic Prescribing (e-RX) Standards
Event Date:
September 17, 2007 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET
Overall Purpose:
Electronic prescribing (e-RX) has enormous potential to positively impact health care quality and efficiency. It is widely accepted that adoption of technology standards is critical to enabling a widespread electronic prescribing infrastructure that can be effectively used by physicians, pharmacies, providers, and payers. In 2006, HHS funded five pilot studies that evaluated the performance and applicability of three well established "foundation" standards and six emerging "initial" standards.
Rochelle Woolley, one of the pilot evaluators will present an overview of the standards tested, evaluation objectives, methods and outcomes. Key to this discussion will be the findings and recommendations for naming final standards for the Medicare Modernization Act's (MMA) e-RX program. The principal investigators from two of the pilot studies will then present the highlights from their pilot projects. Douglas Bell will discuss the RAND pilot, which focused on New Jersey physicians in an e-prescribing program sponsored by Horizon BlueCross/Blue Shield of New Jersey. Michael Bordelon will discuss the Achieve pilot, which was the first ever Long Term Care E-prescribing study. These investigators will also share their insights on impacts to workflow, economics, quality of care, and pathways to adoption.
Event Materials:
- Presentation Slides (PDF, 665 KB)
- Event Transcript (PDF, 123 KB)
- Recording of the Presentation