Healthcare Innovation July 16, 2024
David Raths

Functionalities such as prescription completeness and delivery of real-time benefit information are on the horizon, ONC says

A recent blog post by staff members at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT looks back at successes in expanding e-prescribing rates across the country and also looks ahead at the work that still needs to be done.

The authors, Meghan Gabriel, Tricia Lee Rolle and Chelsea Richwine, briefly describe the 20-year history of federal and state policy changes and incentives that have helped drive the adoption of e-prescribing. This started in 2003, when Congress passed the Medicare Modernization Act. In 2006, all states enacted laws to allow e-prescribing of most drugs that require a prescription.

Now, most prescribers...

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