ePrescribing Dashboard

Florida Metrics
Overview

The Agency for Health Care Administration (the Agency) has developed and published a set of indicators for tracking e-prescribing adoption rates in Florida. These metrics enable the Agency to gauge progress in Florida and in comparison with national rates.

As reported in annual issues of the Florida Electronic Prescribing Report, the annual electronic prescribing rate increased from 1.6% of Florida prescriptions in 2007 to 4.3% in 2008 and to 14.4% in 2009 to 18.4% in 2010 and to 27.1% as of December 2011.

Below is an overview of data totals received for 2012 calendar year quarters as compared to the fourth quarter of 2011.

2012 Narratives and data charts (.pdf 551 KB) showing progress during 2012 is provided for download as linked above.

  • 2012 Metrics

     

    Previous-Year Comparison
    Florida Quarterly E-Prescribing Metrics

    2012Q1

    2011Q4

    2011Q1

    Avg. Total Activated Pharmacies*

    4,423

    4,329

    3,990

    Avg. Total Pharmacies*,**

    4,810

    4,725

    4,378

    E-Prescriptions

    11,264,404

    9,303,918

    6,088,727

    Avg. Total E-Prescribers

    22,497

    21,136

    12,493

    Clear Active Licensed Prescribing Professionals Residing in FL Counties***


    79,119


    79,505


    76,498

    Average Percent of Activated Pharmacies:

    92%

    92%

    91%

    Average Number of Non-eRx Pharmacies:

    387

    396

    388

    Increase in E-Prescriptions Compared to Prior Quarter:


    21.1%


    16.8%


    1.7%

    Month End of Quarter E-Prescribing Rate1:

    39%

    35%

    25%

    Quarterly E-Prescribing Rate2:

    38%

    33%

    22%

    Average Monthly E-Prescriptions per E-Prescriber:


    161


    147


    161

    Increase in E-Prescribers Compared to Prior Quarter:


    6.4%


    10.6%


    2.6%

    Percent of Licensed Prescribing Professionals Who E-Prescribed:


    29%


    27%


    18%

    * Surescripts Data Only
    ** Surescripts obtains FL pharmacy demographic data from NCPDP. NCPDP registered pharmacies include many dispenser types and classes such as government/federal, medical device manufacturers, and others that may not be defined as retail pharmacies. The retail pharmacies selected by ONC and made available to states differs from Surescripts selection of retail pharmacies reported to the Agency in 2010 causing a drop in the number of total pharmacies reported for 2011.
    ***Counts include all clear active DN, MD, PA, ARNP, PO, and OS licensed professionals.

    1 Based on est. 112,187,040 denominator/12 months for 2011 and 119,019,231 denominator/12 months for 2012

    2 Based on est. 112,187,040 denominator/4 quarters for 2011 and 119,019,231 denominator/12 months for 2012


2011 Narratives and data charts (.pdf 499 KB) showing progress during 2011 is provided for download as linked above.

  • 2011 Metrics

    Florida Quarterly 2011
    E-Prescribing Metrics

    2011Q1

    2011Q2

    2011Q3

    2011Q4

    Previous-year
    Comparison
    2010Q4

    Avg. Total Activated Pharmacies*

    3,990

    4,114

    4,221

    4,329

    3,817

    Avg. Total Pharmacies*,**

    4,378

    4,561

    4,647

    4,725

    5,586

    E-Prescriptions

    6,088,727

    7,045,506

    7,963,241

    9,303,918

    5,989,648

    Avg. Total E-Prescribers

    12,493

    16,739

    19,113

    21,136

    12,176

    Clear Active Licensed Prescribing Professionals Residing in FL Counties

    76,498

    77,212

    78,610

    79,505

    75,953

    Average Percent of Activated Pharmacies:

    91%

    90%

    91%

    92%

    68%

    Month End of Quarter E-Prescribing Rate 1:

    25%

    27%

    30%

    35%

    24%

    Quarterly E-Prescribing Rate 2:

    22%

    25%

    28%

    33%

    22%

    Average Monthly E-Prescriptions per E-Prescriber:

    161

    145

    147

    147

    164

    Percent of Licensed Prescribing Professionals Who E-Prescribed:

    18%

    25%

    25%

    27%

    17%

    * Surescripts Data Only
    ** Surescripts obtains FL pharmacy demographic data from NCPDP. NCPDP registered pharmacies include many dispenser types and classes such as government/federal, medical device manufacturers, and others that may not be defined as retail pharmacies. The retail pharmacies selected by ONC and made available to states differs from Surescripts selection of retail pharmacies reported to the Agency in 2010 causing a drop in the number of total pharmacies reported for 2011.

    1 Based on est. 112,187,040 denominator/12 months

    2 Based on est. 112,187,040 denominator/4 quarters

Below is an overview of data totals received for 2010 calendar year quarters as compared to the fourth quarter of 2009.

2010 Narratives and data charts (.pdf 640 KB) showing progress during 2010 is provided for download as linked above.

  • 2010 Metrics

    Florida Quarterly 2010 E-Prescribing Metrics
    2010Q1 2010Q2 2010Q3 2010Q4 2009Q4 (Previous-year Comparison)

    Avg. Total Activated Pharmacies*

    3,601

    3,681

    3,742

    3,817

    3,542

    Avg. Total Pharmacies*

    5,324

    5,402

    5,492

    5,586

    5,269

    ePrescriptions

    4,423,942

    4,514,637

    4,863,204

    5,989,648

    3,707,712

    Avg. Total ePrescribers

    9,589

    10,161

    11,122

    12,176

    8,692

    Clear Active Licensed Prescribing Professionals Residing in FL Counties

    64,666

    74,187

    75,953

    75,953

    73,029

    Patient Medication
    Record Requests*

    7,764,165

    9,060,506

    10,428,335

    11,278,715

    7,084,771

    Records Found*

    6,416,776

    8,557,582

    10,948,213

    11,148,991

    5,925,034

    Avg. Total Record Requesting Clinicians*

    16,075

    19,356

    23,651

    23,268

    16,563

    Average Percent of
    Activated Pharmacies:

    68%

    68%

    68%

    68%

    67%

    Month End of Quarter
    ePrescribing Rate:

    19%

    18%

    20%

    24%

    16%

    Quarterly ePrescribing mRate:

    17%

    17%

    18%

    22%

    14%

    Average Monthly ePrescriptions
    per ePrescriber:

    154

    148

    148

    164

    142

    Average Percent of Licensed Prescribing
    Professionals Who are ePrescribers:

    15%

    14%

    15%

    17%

    12%

    Quarterly Record
    Request Rate2:

    29%

    34%

    40%

    42%

    28%

    Avg. Monthly Record Requests per Requestor:

    161

    159

    155

    157

    123

    Avg. Monthly Records Found per Requestor:

    133

    140

    145

    149

    94

    Quarterly Percent of Records Requested to Found:

    83%

    94%

    105%

    99%

    84%

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