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Article: Rx for progress; Coalition offers e-prescribing service.(The Week in Healthcare)(electronic prescribing service launched by Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc.)
- Article from:
- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- January 22, 2007
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Byline: Joseph Conn
Software vendor Allscripts Healthcare Solutions assembled a coalition of healthcare plans, technology companies and provider organizations to back an offer to provide a free, Web-based electronic prescribing service to all U.S. physicians in an effort to boost what so far has been lackluster use of the technology.
Members of the coalition, called the National E-Prescribing Patient Safety Initiative, announced the strategy last week during a media event at the National Press Club in Washington, and introduced the eRx Now service. Others who have signed on as corporate sponsors are computer makers Dell and Fujitsu Computer Products of ...