Electronic prescribing is a form of paperless prescribing that is reported to reduce prescription mistakes and increases the cost effectiveness of the process. In England, around 1.5 million prescriptions are generated in general practice daily. Thus by reducing costs and increasing efficiency of this system through electronic prescribing, costs can be driven down. In this Quality Improvement p...

need for electronic prescribing and documentation is cancer chemotherapy services. According to independent think tank Reform, much chemotherapy prescribing is paper-based and prone to error. One of the key recommendations on quality and safety from the National Chemotherapy Advisory Group relates to information technology. It states:“Electronic prescribing has been shown to promote patient saf...

OBJECTIVE This study explores alternative approaches to the display of drug alerts, and examines whether and how human-factors based interface design can be used to improve the prescriber's perception about drug alert presentation, signal detection from noisy alert data, and their comprehension of clinical decision support during electronic prescribing. METHODS We reviewed issues with present...

Implementation of electronic prescribing system can overcome many problems of the paper prescribing system, and provide numerous opportunities of more effective and advantageous prescribing. Successful implementation of such a system requires complete and deep understanding of work content, human force, and workflow of paper prescribing. The current study was designed in order to model the curr...

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13:470–475. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2041.

Newer outpatient electronic prescribing software programs produce typewritten paper prescriptions with electronically created signatures. Current Canadian federal legislation forbids static (unchanging) signature images on prescriptions. We conducted a randomized trial of electronic prescribing in outpatients at a university-affiliated hospital. The application was a wireless Palm-based system ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the functional capabilities being offered by commercial ambulatory electronic prescribing systems with a set of expert panel recommendations. DESIGN A descriptive field study of ten commercially available ambulatory electronic prescribing systems, each of which had established a significant market presence. Data were collected from vendors by telephone interview and at si...

British Journal of General Practice, May 2014 259 pRevalenCe, natuRe, and Causes of pResCRIbIng eRRoRs In geneRal pRaCtICe Over the past 10 years our team has been involved in a wide range of studies of prescribing in general practice, but one we feel that has really made a difference is the PRACtICe study, which was funded by the General Medical Council.1,2 In this study we took a sample of 15...

OBJECTIVES To describe ambulatory care clinicians' perspectives on the effect of e-prescribing systems on patient safety outcomes. STUDY DESIGN We used a mixed-method study of clinicians and staff in 64 practices using one of six e-prescribing technologies in six U.S. states. METHODS We used clinician surveys (web-based and paper) and focus groups to obtain clinicians' perspectives on e-pre...