Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation and eHealth Initiative Foundation Launch Partnership to Conduct Research on Health Outcomes, Comparative Effectiveness
Multi-stakeholder effort will pilot a unique, distributed, electronic research network to help patients and their doctors determine which treatments work best for specific diseases and conditions
WASHINGTON (August 11, 2008) – The Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation and the eHealth Initiative Foundation (eHI) announced the launch of the Partnership for Connecting for Research on Outcomes and Effectiveness, a national effort that will create a model for using electronic health information from multiple data sources—including electronic health records--while protecting patient privacy, to offer unbiased, evidence-based guidance on what treatments work best—vital information that can improve quality and safety and drive down costs in the health care system.
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eHealth Initiative and The Center for Improving Medication Management Release National Roadmap and Practical Guides for Rapid Expansion of Electronic Prescribing
Multi-stakeholder Group Touts Benefits from E-Prescribing and Makes Recommendations on How to Accelerate its Adoption and Effective Use
WASHINGTON – JUNE 11, 2008 – A new report indicates more than 35 million prescription transactions were sent electronically in 2007, a 170 percent increase over the previous year. The report, “Electronic Prescribing: Becoming Mainstream Practice,” offers a detailed examination of the progress made, obstacles that remain, and recommendations for helping the nation’s prescribers migrate from paper-based prescriptions to an electronic system.
The report, developed collaboratively by the eHealth Initiative (eHI) and The Center for Improving Medication Management (The Center) with guidance and leadership from a diverse Steering Group of health care stakeholders, summarizes the national experience with e-prescribing over the past four years – from its pilot phase in several states such as California, Massachusetts, Michigan and Rhode Island, to its present day use in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. It outlines additional steps that should be taken to realize optimal results in health care improvement. The report includes corresponding guides that offer practical information for health care payers to support effective adoption, and for consumers to better understand e-prescribing’s benefits and use. A third guide for prescribers is under development now, in collaboration with leading medical societies.
Guide for Payers | Consumer Guide | One-Page Consumer Pamphlet
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eHealth Initiative's Drug Safety Collaboration to Partner
With FDA on Sentinel Initiative
eHI’s multi-stakeholder "Connecting Communities for Drug Safety Collaboration" conducting drug safety pilots to test and evaluate use of electronic health information to support post-market monitoring efforts
WASHINGTON – MAY 22, 2008 –The non-profit Connecting Communities for Drug Safety Collaboration (the Collaboration), which will help inform the Sentinel Initiative, is a public-private sector effort conducted in partnership with the FDA. The purpose of the project is to test and evaluate the feasibility and value of using electronic health information--through a distributed model--to support post-market surveillance and drug safety.
"We are delighted to be partnering with eHI on this important project," said Janet Woodcock, MD, Director, Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration. "The results of the pilots will help us evaluate methods and technical approaches for using electronic data to support post-market surveillance and assess the legal and institutional policy issues involved".
The Collaboration just completed in April 2008 its first iteration of testing and evaluation of using a combination of clinical data from electronic health records and other clinical systems and administrative claims data to detect and evaluate drug safety signals for a set of three "use cases."
