ePrescribe Iowa News Conference - Bill Leaver, CEO of Iowa Health System

Bill Leaver, President and CEO of Iowa Health System, Iowas largest integrated health care system, speaks at the news conference launching the first-in-the-nation statewide electronic prescribing.

The new partnership between Iowa Health System and Allscripts, called ePrescribe Iowa, will offer a free Web-based e-prescribing solution to physicians throughout Iowa. Less than three percent of all prescriptions written in Iowa in 2008 — the last year for which statistics are available — were produced using e-prescribing software, according to SureScripts, a company that connects prescribers in all 50 states to pharmacies and the nations leading payers.

ePrescribe Iowa automates the process of writing prescriptions and transmitting them to pharmacies while alerting physicians to potentially dangerous drug-to-drug interactions, drug allergies, dosage errors and other problems that can occur when writing prescriptions on paper. The stand-alone solution provided by Iowa Health System and Allscripts also provides physicians a simple way to transition from paper medical records to a full Electronic Health Record, software that automates everyday clinical tasks such as ePrescribing and connects physician practices with other key health care stakeholders including insurance companies, laboratories and hospitals.

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