November 23, 2015
The e-prescribing global market is expected to grow 23.5 percent annually into 2019 and achieve an estimated value of $887.8 million. Benefits such as lower cost, better access to prescription records, easy legibility and smoother workflow outweigh the costs: fixing incorrect orders, software problems, and software purchase and start-up costs. Hospitals and physicians who are considering an e-prescribing solution should ask themselves several questions. Medsphere Systems Corporation’s HITinsight blog just published my extensively researched article that answers these questions, and summarizes several studies on e-prescribing’s positives and negatives.
The article has already been republished in some top industry e-news publications. If you missed it, take a look right here.