When e-prescribing first figured in the health policy scene in 2003, policymakers viewed it as a “low-hanging fruit” among myriad IT initiatives aimed at pushing doctors to convert their charts to electronic formats.
Hopes were high because e-prescribing was seen to provide immediate benefits that could greatly improve the delivery of quality health care and speed up the migration to electronic health records.
Although major progress has been made in improving the functionality and interoperability of e-prescribing, recent studies have pointed out that fewer than one in ten doctors have adopted the electronic system.
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