ePrescribing grows to 1 in 4 office-based prescribers: Surescripts Report
“The number of prescribers routing prescriptions electronically grew from 74,000 at the end of 2008 to 156,000 by the end of 2009–representing 25 percent of all office-based prescribers,”  according to the latest report from Surescripts, the leading e-prescription network in report released March 2, 2010. Surescripts also reported that 18 percent of prescriptions in the US are now being sent electronically.

On March 15, 2010, Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com, reported “About 70% of physicians who do e-prescribe use an application on their EMRs,” the Surescripts report found. Dolan’s article also points to the American Medical Association’s “Zero-In Rx e-prescribing learning centers” as an example of the public and private initiatives driving e-prescribing. Dolan’s report describes some of the barriers to e-prescribing including the “Drug Enforcement Agency rule that requires all controlled substance presecriptions be written on paper.”

Surecripts Press Release (pdf)
Surescripts 2009 Progress Report on e-Prescribing (pdf)
amednews.com article
American Medical Association’s Zero-In Rx ePrescribing Learning Center