SureScripts, the ePrescribing network owned by the large pharmacy chains, announced that it will be providing medication history and patient formulary and eligibility information later in the year. SureScripts will use technology from Initiate software, a vendor of enterprise master patient index software, which will integrate information from the various pharmacies on the network. SureScripts is important for ePrescribing's advance as it gives a network for application vendors to "plug into" without having to create their own connection to pharmacies. Now with medication histories and other data added, the information should be more valuable to clinicians and patients. ePrescribing is still used by fewer than 20 percent of physicians.
- see this release [1] from Initiate
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[1] http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/27/1491698.htm