TY - JOUR
AU1 - Webster, Paul
AU2 - 
AB - CMAJ News anada Health Infoway issued a call for proposals for a C $40-million national electronic prescription service called PrescribeIT. The service would connect clinicians and pharmacists so prescriptions could be issued electronically. The aim of the pro- posals, according to the July 15 call, is to deliver a system operating in at least two provinces or territories by late 2017. Federal Health Minister Dr. Jane Philpott told a drug policy summit in Ottawa on June 22 that she wants Info- way to develop a system capable of “capturing all prescriptions issued by doctors, not just what was dispensed.” Drugs are the second largest health care expenditure in Canada, after hos- pitals. According to Infoway, an inde- pendent, not-for-profit organization funded by the federal government, Canada Health Infoway has already spent $200 million in federal money on a largely adverse events and misuse of medica- incomplete national drug information system. tion remain problems. Infoway has already spent nearly ada is among the few developed coun- The paper in the Journal of the $200 million on an incomplete system tries without an e-prescribing system. American Medical Informatics Associ- of provincial and territorial drug-infor- “When pharmacists were asked to ation found, 
TI - Infoway calls for e-prescribing proposals
JF - Canadian Medical Association Journal
DO - 10.1503/cmaj.109-5308
DA - 2016-08-02
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/infoway-calls-for-e-prescribing-proposals-Tg4CqGPyes
DP - DeepDyve
ER -