title: Steps forward on e-prescribing. As e-prescribing becomes more widespread, even hospital organizations without full EMR implementation are seeing gains in clinician workflow and patient safety.
abstract: E-prescribing is reaching a tipping point health system-wide. Hospitals and health systems are helping physicians to benefit from e-prescribing, even in cases where full EMR has not yet taken place. E-prescribing and lab information will soon available in the same place. Providers who do not use e-prescribing will begin to see penalties in 2012.
authors.forename: Daphne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lawrence
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D055695:Electronic Prescribing; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D017751:Safety Management