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Proposed e-prescribing guidelines raise concerns, hospital leader tells panel
Courtesy of AHA News Now: January 25, 2010
In testimony today to the Health Information Technology Committee's Information Exchange Workgroup, Chris Snyder, the chief medical information officer at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD, expressed concern with the proposed meaningful use guidelines for reconciliation of medications. "The expectation of reconciliation at each transition of care raises a number of concerns; among them is the role of the specialty provider that does not reconcile medications outside of their scope of practice," said Snyder, a physician. Snyder said the integration of required systems and processes to support the guidelines "is unlikely in the near to mid-term within the typical community." In addition, he said the exclusion of the use of e-prescribing for controlled substances "remains problematic, requiring providers to employ dual processes if they should choose to attempt to incorporate the use of e-prescribing within their practice."
