ePrescribing Challenge at the ‘National Conference on m-Health and EOE’

Breaking down the barriers of adopting ePrescribing is a major issue within the healthcare industry. A major action item within the US government is developing standards to facilitate ePrescribing. Various coalitions, like CafeRX, have been formed to push the use of end-to-end electronic prescribing by physicians and pharmacists. The ePrescribing buzz is getting louder and the Medical Records Institute (MRI) is listening to that noise.

At the upcoming National Conference on m-Health & EOE, MRI will bring attendees the ePrescribing Challenge. This entertaining and informative session is similar to the Clinical Documentation Challenge held each year at TEPR. The challenge is a hard –hitting comparison of the industries leading healthcare technology companies whose objective is to get this technology into the hands of physicians at the point of care.

The ePrescribing challenge will focus on PDA-based systems with wireless communications vs. web-based and other solutions. The participants will be selected from a group of ePrescribing vendors and they will demonstrate how their systems provide the necessary functions and how it is integrated into the EMR. This timely ePrescribing Challenge will equip providers with the know-how to utilize these technologies when they are faced with the need to implement ePrescribing in their organization.

Stay tuned for more development on the ePrescribing Challenge and the vendors who will be selected to participate.