Electronic prescribing in long-term care: an overview of five pilot projects.
In January 2006 the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded five pilot grants to study the use of electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) standards-one in a long-term care setting and four in ambulatory care settings. Although forms of ePrescribing have been used in the long-term care environment for many years, this was the first pilot to test the National Council of Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) SCRIPT ePrescribing standards. This article describes a summary of the results of that study.
Spiro
Rachelle F
RF
Spiro Consulting, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D050316:Medical Order Entry Systems / Q000592:standards*; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*