The wave of movement toward ePrescribing in North Florida is being helped along by the electronic prescription writer available to subscribers of the Big Bend RHIO’s Health Information Exchange platform. This platform includes a suite of products that allow a full range of electronic record keeping and sharing in a web-based environment. For a healthcare provider, connectivity through the BBRHIO provides access to a basic ePrescribing program that a physician may begin using immediately to write accurate prescriptions and send them anyplace that can receive ePrescriptions.
Subscribers to the BBRHIO have additional access to an innovative new product called an Automated Medication Dispenser (AMD) that allows a physician, through the use of an ePrescriber, to dispense prescription medications directly to their patients at the point of care. The advantage of the AMD over currently available options for physician dispensing is that it handles all the functions of filling a prescription inside a secure vault about the size of a Coke machine. It allows them to dispense to their patients the same medication they would get in pharmacy, in a bottle labeled with the same information the pharmacy would provide. The AMD provides a higher level of care to patients, as well as an additional revenue stream to the physician. The AMD is available through Avocare at www.AvocareHealth.com.
Duval County Health Department (DCHD) - http://www.dchd.net/
The DCHD uses an electronic pharmacy record system, InteRx, and is embarking on an extensive effort to enhance patient care through an electronic process that provides direct electronic link of the providers to the electronic pharmacy record system... DCHD has evaluated the e-prescribing system, eMPOWERx, in efforts to eliminate medication transcription errors, increase prescription history access, manage prescriptions appropriately, improve documentation, and encourage formulary compliance...There are 10 health centers within DCHD. There are over 30-clinicians providing medical care. Individualized training per clinician and support staff (i.e. nurses) is necessary. The eMPOWERx staff will train each clinician for approximately 1-hour at their practice site. If eligible, hand held devices will be distributed at the time of training... The anticipated date of all providers being trained is December 2007. Currently, there are 7-DCHD clinicians using eMPOWERx...
JaxCare, Inc. - Jacksonville Health Information Network (JHIN) - http://www.jaxcare.org/
The JHIN health record includes functionality such as e-prescribing, clinical messaging and more, which may be made available to users in the future.
Northeast Florida Regional Health Organization (NEFRHO) - http://www.nefrho.org/
NEFRHO is working with ePrescribe Florida's workgroups dedicated to helping their physicians understand ePrescribing, what the options are and how to be successful in this important use of technology to enhance patient safety, reduce staff time while continuing to provide quality care. They are working on provider outreach workgroups which will be dedicated to prescriber education, as well as, vendor solutions workgroup, to provide a successful ePrescribing tool.
Eleven organizations have responded to the Vendor Solutions Workgroup registration process and have submitted applications which are being reviewed. Once final, these vendor solutions will be added to the list of ePrescribe Florida Registered Solutions.
The Florida Academy of Family Physicians (FAFP) - http://www.fafp.org/
e-Prescribing Collaborative – FAFP currently sits as a member of the Advisory Council for e-Prescribe Florida. The e-Prescribe Florida is striving to increase patient safety and meet the needs of the Florida public by establishing a collaborative framework that helps achieve an understanding of the benefits of electronic prescribing, while fostering education and the implementation efforts to accelerate physician adoption and cooperation among prescribing constituents.
