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    A change in this rule would provide greater incentive for providers to participate in e-prescribing by eliminating the need for maintaining a separate paper-based prescribing system for controlled substances. "Today's announcement is another impressive milestone in a long line of health care innovations in Rhode Island" said Whitehouse. "Electronic prescribing is a necessity for improved quality and safety in health care delivery, and I'm thankful for all the hard work put in by the Rhode Island Quality Institute and participating pharmacies to adopt this technology. Full Article at Freshnews.com
    Today's announcement is another impressive milestone in a long line of health care innovations in Rhode Island
    Sheldon Whitehouse – Sheldon Whitehouse SOURCE: Freshnews.com 4 weeks ago
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Rhode Island's Success With E-Prescribing Leads to First-of-a-Kind System for Tracking Swine Flu
  1. When a misplaced decimal point can cost a life, the value of eliminating hand-transcribed prescriptions cannot be overstated.
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  2. Instead of theorizing about how to drive health IT adoption, the Rhode Island e-Prescribing Committee pulls out spreadsheets, analyzes real data, sets goals, identifies barriers to health IT adoption and use and acts swiftly to remove them. You need only attend one of their conference calls to understan...
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  3. Stop & Shop applauds the achievements in Rhode Island and strongly supports e-prescribing technology
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  4. Since 2003 Rhode Island has consistently led the way on e-prescribing, and we have been continually recognized as one of the top 10 states in the nation for our success in implementing this initiative
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  5. This is a very significant milestone in our efforts to leverage health information technology to improve the quality, safety and value of health care in Rhode Island
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  6. All CVS/pharmacy stores have been enabled to receive electronic prescriptions since 2004 and we are delighted that our home state is the first in the nation to achieve this 100% milestone
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  7. Rhode Island's unique collaborative model is leveraging the power of the Surescripts network to produce meaningful improvements across the state's healthcare system
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  8. E-prescribing allows you more time with patients, improves prescriber relationships and improves patient relationships ... For example, we have a lot of diabetes patients that we are now able to spend more pharmacist-patient time with to counsel them on diabetes education. Also, patients no longer have ...
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  9. Rhode Island is the first state in the nation to work with Surescripts to use prescription data in the aggregate for disease surveillance, specifically monitoring and tracking the use of antiviral data during this H1N1 pandemic
    SOURCE: Freshnews.com 4 weeks ago

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