HIT Standards Committee Attempts to Identify E-Prescribing Standards

A recent Health IT Standards Committee meeting aimed to identify standards for the e-prescribing of medicine at hospital discharge, according to a Government Health IT report.

The report said the committee also looked at vocabulary standards for e-prescribing clinical quality, all in the hopes to help healthcare providers incorporate electronic health records and achieve stage 2 of meaningful use.

Panel recommendations included a minimal number of code sets, such as SNOMED-CT and LOINC, to show a patient's allergy effects, diagnosis and other meaningful use measures. According to the report, the panel also recommended using current e-prescribing standards involving a patient's medication orders being sent to hospital pharmacies and retail pharmacies upon discharge.

Read the Government Health IT report on e-prescribing standards.

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