Alaska recently become the 50th state to make electronic prescribing a legal way for its pharmacies to do business. Given that e-prescribing is an application that could open the e-health floodgates, this is a significant landmark in the development of a national health information network.
In this audio interview, Ken Whittemore, senior vice president
of clinical practice integration for SureScripts, which operates the nationwide
Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, talks to Government Health IT about
what that means for the future of e-prescribing, and what role the federal
and state governments will play in shaping the future of such services.
Government Health IT presents Rick Friedman, director of the division of state systems for the Center for Medicaid and State Operations with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in this recent eSeminar regarding how the federal Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services is partnering with state Medicaid and health and human services officials to bring Medicaid into the digital age. Paul McCloskey, Government Health IT editor, moderates.
