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- noun Plural form of
e-prescription .
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Surescripts is expanding so that doctors around the country can choose to share medical reports, X-rays and other health data over its network much as they send e-prescriptions to drugstores today, regardless of what competing brand of computerized health records they use.
Online Medical Records: Push For Better Way To Share Medical E-Records The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Nearly all chain drug stores and 62% of independent pharmacies now accept e-prescriptions that are uploaded directly to their computers.
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Over time, the site will include four types of data: procedural data, like how many patients presenting symptoms of diabetes get the test considered best practice for managing diabetes; structural data, like whether the physicians have electronic records and use e-prescriptions; outcome data, like mortality and complication rates; and cost data.
Kati Haycock: Data on Teachers: Lessons From Health Care 2010
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Doctors transmit e-prescriptions via a secured Internet network directly to pharmacies from their computers or hand-held devices.
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Over time, the site will include four types of data: procedural data, like how many patients presenting symptoms of diabetes get the test considered best practice for managing diabetes; structural data, like whether the physicians have electronic records and use e-prescriptions; outcome data, like mortality and complication rates; and cost data.
Kati Haycock: Data on Teachers: Lessons From Health Care 2010
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President Barack Obama has touted broader adoption of e-prescriptions and electronic medical records as integral parts of health-care reform.
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Over time, the site will include four types of data: procedural data, like how many patients presenting symptoms of diabetes get the test considered best practice for managing diabetes; structural data, like whether the physicians have electronic records and use e-prescriptions; outcome data, like mortality and complication rates; and cost data.
Kati Haycock: Data on Teachers: Lessons From Health Care 2010
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The number of e-prescriptions nearly tripled last year to 191 million from the previous year's 68 million, representing about 12% of the 1.63 billion original prescriptions, excluding refills, according to Surescripts LLC, whose online network handles the bulk of the electronic communications.
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Over time, the site will include four types of data: procedural data, like how many patients presenting symptoms of diabetes get the test considered best practice for managing diabetes; structural data, like whether the physicians have electronic records and use e-prescriptions; outcome data, like mortality and complication rates; and cost data.
Kati Haycock: Data on Teachers: Lessons From Health Care 2010
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This will be a nearly 400% increase in e-prescriptions at Wal-Mart.
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