This is a comparative effectiveness study that evaluates the safety effects of 2 types of commercially available electronic prescribing systems. The increasingly widespread adoption of electronic ...

According to statistics published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, U.S. researchers estimated medication errors affect at least 1.5 million people every year and cost the health-care system in ...

June 29, 2011 -- Outpatient electronic prescribing systems don't cut out the common mistakes made in manual systems, suggests research published online in the Journal of the American Medical ...

While electronic prescribing has been shown to reduce medication errors and improve prescribing safety, it is vulnerable to error-prone processes. We review six intersecting areas in which changes to ...

Electronic prescribing is becoming widespread. All states allow it, some states require it, and many institutions now mandate electronic prescribing. Many electronic prescribing systems use ...

Implementing electronic prescribing and medication administration systems in hospitals could increase overall medication risk, according to a study published in BMC Health Services Research.

CHICAGO (May 4, 2009) – New research published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that the adoption of electronic prescribing systems may allow for greater ...

Clinicians using an electronic prescribing system appear more likely to prescribe lower-cost medications, reducing drug spending, according to a report in the December 8/22 issue of Archives of ...

With the assistance of the facility where the event occurred, several factors contributing to the error were identified. Panitumumab and other monoclonal antibodies ...

The use of electronic health record systems in doctors’ offices and hospitals has hit a major speed bump, and rightly so, with the federal government winning a $145 million civil and criminal ...

Doctors are getting digital help to do their jobs. President Obama is betting big on information technology. The plan is to use electronic medical records to prevent costly errors, reduce paperwork ...

Recent research between the intersection of health and tech brings a new development in an automatic electronic alert system used to prevent overprescribing of asthmatic drugs. "Excessive use of ...