A Guide for Health Care Payers to Improve the Medication Management Process

The report, "A Guide for Health Care Payers to Improve the Medication Management Process," which was released on June 11, 2008, offers offer practical information for health care payers to support effective adoption of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing).

The report was developed collaboratively by the eHealth Initiative (eHI) and The Center for Improving Medication Management (The Center) with the strategic guidance and leadership from a diverse Steering Group made up of the many stakeholders in health care, including clinicians, consumers, employers, health plans, health IT vendors and pharmacists and pharmacies.

The Payer Guide focuses on how e-prescribing can create value for payers through the medication management process, and how such technological innovations can be brought to market in a manner that best fits with a payer organization's own internal dynamics. The guide also provides a set of best practices and lessons learned to help payers in implementing e-prescribing innovations which might be of value to their individual organizations.

Click here to access the report, "A Guide for Health Care Payers to Improve the Medication Management Process"

Click here to access the June 11, 2008 press release