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Are you considering implementing an EPCS project?
There are a number of tactical steps that IT, clinical leadership, pharmacy, application/EHR teams, compliance/credentialing departments, and others must take together to successfully implement EPCS and realize its significant benefits. These steps can be organized into five key phases: assessment, preparation, testing, enrollment, and transition.
The following project plan provides the steps performed during each phase, including the suggested departmental owner of each task, to help you keep your EPCS project on track:
Blog
Interest in electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) continues to increase as hospitals and health systems across the U.S. look for technology solutions to reduce the risk of altered, stolen or fraudulent prescriptions, improve patient safety and satisfaction, and reduce prescription errors and inaccuracies.
Blog
When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) introduced regulations for electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) in 2010, many providers worried that EPCS’s strict security stipulations would disrupt their prescribing workflows. Since then, New York State’s groundbreaking I-STOP legislation and the public debate about mandating EPCS in other states, has driven innovations in health technology that drive EPCS adoption.
News
Prescription drug overdoses are responsible for more deaths in the United States than gun, knife, and motor vehicle injuries combined, with those involving opioid analgesics increasing 300% since 1999.
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Erin Bastick
February 11, 2015
Imprivata has launched a new product to enable a major shift from paper to elctronic prescribing of controlled substances.
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Cambridge Health Alliance will be among the first big hospital operators in the state to roll out new technology that allows doctors to electronically send prescriptions for controlled substances directly to pharmacies. Hospital officials say next month’s small but important software upgrade will improve monitoring of prescriptions and reduce fraud and counterfeiting.