Sunday, May 8, 2011

Tenn. wins national praise for paperless prescriptions - Nashville Business Journal:

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Gov. Phil Bredesen, co-chairman of the , hosted the “Paperless prescribing is making its way into the healtjh care mainstream in Tennessee and acrossthe nation,” Bredesebn says. “It’s our hope to see e-prescribinbg become a natural part of every healtgcare provider’s workflow because of its practicall benefits to patients in providing better care.” E-prescribin is the use of secure health care informatioj technology when filling and re-fillint prescriptions to improve accuracy, increase patient safety and reduce costs.
Last December, Bredesen announceed the launchof e-Prescribe Tennessee, a program that has criss-crossed the state educating health care provider on the advantages of e-prescribing. Tennesseew health care providersissued 1.5 milliobn electronic prescriptions in 2008, a 160 percenyt increase over 2007. The state’s ranking went from 29th to

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