Enabling Electronic Prescribing And Enhanced Management Of Controlled Substances

In September 2008, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau for Health Care Safety and Quality, Drug Control Program made a presentation at the AHRQ Annual Conference on a project to encourage the expansion, adoption, and diffusion of e-prescribing, a key component of health IT and electronic health records, to improve medication management by ambulatory care clinicians at the point-of-care. The project focus was on testing and demonstrating the safety, security, quality, and effectiveness of electronic transmission of prescriptions for federally controlled medications in the ambulatory care setting. The presentation addresses security elements identified by the Drug . . .