Gabriel Meghan E, Furukawa Michael F, Vaidya Varun
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Ave, S.W. Washington, DC 20201. E-mail:
Am J Manag Care. 2013 Sep;19(9):760-4.
The objective of this study is to describe the growth in provider (physician, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant) adoption of e-prescribing and the growth in pharmacies actively accepting e-prescriptions using nationally representative data from December 2008 to December 2012. Additionally, this study explored e-prescribing adoption variation by urban and rural counties.
Descriptive analysis of nationally representative, transactional e-prescribing data.
Data for this analysis were from Surescripts. Surescripts is a leading e-prescription network utilized by a majority of all chain, franchise, or independently owned pharmacies in the United States routing prescriptions for more than 240 million patients through their network.
The total number of prescribers, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants e-prescribing via an electronic health record (EHR) on the Surescripts network has increased from 7% to 54%. Additionally, the number of pharmacies actively accepting e-prescriptions is 94%. These increases in pharmacies actively accepting e-prescriptions and the provider's eprescribing mirror the increase in the volume of e-prescriptions sent on the Surescripts network.
This analysis shows that the vast majority of pharmacies in the United States are able to accept e-prescriptions and over half of providers are e-prescribing via an EHR.
本研究的目的是利用2008年12月至2012年12月具有全国代表性的数据，描述医疗服务提供者（医生、执业护士和医师助理）采用电子处方的增长情况，以及积极接受电子处方的药房数量的增长情况。此外，本研究还探讨了城乡县在电子处方采用方面的差异。
对具有全国代表性的交易性电子处方数据进行描述性分析。
本分析的数据来自Surescripts。Surescripts是一个领先的电子处方网络，美国大多数连锁、特许经营或独立拥有的药房都在使用该网络，通过其网络为超过2.4亿患者传递处方。
通过Surescripts网络在电子健康记录（EHR）上进行电子处方的开处方者总数，包括医生、执业护士和医师助理，已从7%增加到54%。此外，积极接受电子处方的药房数量为94%。积极接受电子处方的药房数量和医疗服务提供者的电子处方数量的增加，反映了Surescripts网络上发送的电子处方数量的增加。
该分析表明，美国绝大多数药房能够接受电子处方，超过一半的医疗服务提供者通过电子健康记录进行电子处方。
