From the March 2006 print issue
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- Mass. docs ahead in IT, but gaps still exist
- Mass Health plan incentives boost adoption
- eRX: Terrific results for e-prescribing initiative
- Partners HealthCare builds own e-prescribing system
- Blue Cross and Zix Corporation pilot disease management through eRx
- BCBS and Zix launch chronic disease pilot
- BCBSMA requires eRx for physician incentive programs
- HHS gives innovation awards to 26 organizations
BOSTON – After two years of e-prescribing expansion in Massachusetts, the eRx Colla- borative announced that more than three million electronic prescriptions have been transmitted through its members.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Tufts Health Plan and Neighborhood Health Plan formed the Collaborative in 2003 to jumpstart the use of e-prescribing technology in Massachusetts. More than 2.6 million prescriptions were transmitted in 2005 alone.
