$22 Billion Savings from E-Prescribing Under New Law Will Pay For Modernizing the Nation’s Entire Health IT Infrastructure
WASHINGTON — Financial incentives for physicians to adopt health information technology (HIT) included in the recent economic stimulus bill will increase the number of prescribers using electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) to more than 75 percent over the next five years—nearly double the rate of use anticipated after passage of last year’s e-prescribing legislation— according to a new study from Visante, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) said today. http://ping.fm/WwEyl