Study: N.C. ranks high in electronic prescription transfers

The percentage of medical prescriptions routed electronically from a physician’s office to a pharmacy hit 6.4 percent in North Carolina in 2008, giving the state a sixth-place national ranking, according to survey by St. Paul, Minn.-based Surescripts, a medical networking company.

Surescripts, formed as a result of the 2008 merger of RxHub and Surescripts, has been conducting the survey over the past four years to gauge the use of high-tech service delivery in medicine. More Here Electronic Prescription