CMS announces ePrescribing pilot

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will spend $6 million on a pilot project to test the effectiveness of ePrescribing technologies during the first year of Medicare Part D. SureScripts, partnering with Brown University and five other vendors, gets $2 million to evaluate the effectiveness of programs that encourage physicians to send prescription information electronically to pharmacies. Individuals pilots are set to move forward in Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Tennessee. SureScripts will also play a supporting role in separate pilots awarded to the Santa Monica-based RAND corporation and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

- see this release from HHS