eprescribing

New Jersey Blues parent Horizon Healthcare Services is the latest health plan to try to nudge physicians in its area along the e-prescribing path. Horizon has signed a deal with EMR and e-prescribing player Allscripts in which selected physicians will be given connectivity tools and PDAs with ePrescribing software installed. Thus far similar technology initiatives by Wellpoint and BCBS of Massachusetts have had slow starts, but recent presentations at the TEPR conference suggest that …

The TEPR show in Salt Lake City continued Tuesday. One of the most interesting tracks was one about ePrescribing -- a graveyard for several vendors in the late 1990s. Several speakers told of their optimism that ePrescribing was finally going to get off the ground as a stepping stone to the EMR for smaller practices. Danny Sands, of ZixCorp said that in the last year nearly 3,000 doctors had signed up for the health plan sponsored ePrescribing program in Massachusetts. …