The eRx Collaborative program continues to be viewed as a leader in electronic prescribing and collaboration. Various media outlets have highlighted our success:
- Boston Business Journal: In an article about e-Prescribing, Dr. Saul Weingart, vice president for patient safety at Dana-Farber, said "It's definitely working. We're preventing errors or injuries due to medications". Weingart said he sees the advance of e-prescribing technology unavoidable. "Over the next decade," he said, "anyone who prescribes medicine with a pen and pad is going to be a dinosaur." (August 2008)
- Worcester Business Journal quoted an eRx Collaborative prescriber on learning how to use ePrescribing technology: "The system is very easy to use; it's very intuitive. My staff and I had no problem learning, even though we represent a wide range of computer abilities...It's amazing how easy it is to do prescriptions this way." (December 2006)
- Health Data Management Magazine quoted an eRx Collaborative Prescriber describing his ePrescribing experience: “The rewards are exponential. Aside from making prescriptions readable and fewer errors, refills can be done at warp speed. Once a patient is in the system, we can order a refill in a quarter of the time it used to take.” (May 2006)
- The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association focused on the eRx Collaborative in an article titled “E-Prescribing Collaboration in Massachusetts: Early Experiences from Regional ePrescribing Projects” (February 2006)
- The work of the eRx Collaborative has been included in presentations at several prestigious conferences, including Towards the Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) in Baltimore, Maryland and the Patient Safety Conference in Washington, DC sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- America’s Health Insurance Plans showcased the eRx Collaborative as “A Unique Collaboration” in their publication, Innovations in Health Information Technology (November 2005)
- Lowell Sun: Dr. Wikander feels PocketScript has "made our lives easier and "the biggest advantages of PocketScript is that when medication is entered into the PDA, the database immediately flags possible drug interactions and searches the patient’s records for medications that he/she may be taking and forgotten to tell the doctor about.” (June 2005)
- Managed Care Report: "A key part of the Massachusetts project's success is that the two market leading Plans worked together, and were even joined by a third Plan. That kind of collaboration sends a powerful message to physicians that ePrescribing is a change worth making." (January 2005)
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