E-prescribing controlled substances

Guidelines for prescribing of controlled substances.

This clinical policy deals with critical issues in prescribin of opioids for adult patients treated in the emergency department (ED). This guideline is the result of the efforts the American College of Emergency Physicians, in consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration. The critical questions addressed in this clinical policy are: (1) ...

Nurse practitioners and prescribing controlled substances.

DEA Opens the Door to e-Prescribing Of Controlled Substances: But Pharmacies Balk at Security Rules.

know whether a physician signing up to transmit electronic prescriptions is le gally permitted to do so. Some services, which enroll practices over the Internet, don’t ask for the presumed physician’s DEA registration and state license. But the DEA has proposed a number of security measures that haven’t gone over well with anyone. C. Edwin Webb, Director of Government and Professional Affairs f...

Early experience with electronic prescribing of controlled substances in a community setting.

BACKGROUND In 2010, the US Drug Enforcement Administration issued regulations allowing electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS), a practice previously prohibited. OBJECTIVE To carry out a survey of the experience of prescribers in the nation's first study of EPCS implementation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prescribers were surveyed in a community setting before and after implementat...

E-prescribing - Telepharmacy

Advances in information and communication technology and in particularly the development of new mobile devices with user-friendly interfaces, broadband communication and wireless networks technology, offer new approaches to encouraging physician adoption of new technology applications. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) study “To Error is human: building a safer health system”, over o...