Abstract

In January 2006 the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded five pilot grants to study the use of electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) standards-one in a long-term care setting and four in ambulatory care settings. Although forms of ePrescribing have been used in the long-term care environment for many years, this was the first pilot to test the National Council of Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) SCRIPT ePrescribing standards. This article describes a summary of the results of that study.

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