CMS releases e-prescribing pilot reports

CMS released the evaluation report from their five e-prescribing projects. The five pilot sites are among the leading experts in the field of e-prescribing: RAND, Ohio KePRO/UHMP, Brigham and Women's Hospital, SureScripts, and Achieve Healthcare. A summary of their results as well as additional analyses and recommendations is included in the evaluation report.

This writer had the opportunity to contribute to this effort with Chelle Woolley, Kevin Johnson, Adil Moiddudin, and many others.

Follow this link for the summaries:

• Follow this link for the draft congressional report
• Follow this link for the AHRQ HealthIT html report
  
• Follow this link for the complete NRC / AHRQ evaluation report (pdf)
• Follow this link for the complete NRC /AHRQ evaluation report (text)
  

Follow these links for the individual evaluations:

• Follow this link for Achieve Healthcare Technology's report
• Follow this link for the Brigham report
• Follow this link for the Ohio report
• Follow this link for the RAND report
• Follow this link for the SureScripts report