How ready is the nation's current prescribing infrastructure for the new technology of ePrescribing? The California HealthCare Foundation releases a new report on physical, financial and electronic underpinnings of the nation's current prescribing system, and how that infrastructure is being changed in preparation for ePrescribing. The report examines the development of a common infrastructure to support ePrescribing, headed by Surescripts and RxHub, which is rapidly improving the chances of getting ePrescribing into the physicians' office.
- read the report from the California HealthCare Foundation;(PDF) (Disclosure: FierceHealthcare editor Matthew Holt is one of the report's authors, along with health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn)