AeA Releases 3rd Report Strongly Endorsing eHealth Initiatives
ePrescribing Reduces Healthcare Costs and Medication Errors

Washington, DC (July 16, 2008) – AeA, the nation’s largest technology trade association representing all segments of the high-tech industry, today released its third Competitiveness Series report endorsing eHealth, arguing that it will lower costs and enhance the safety, reliability, convenience, and delivery of healthcare. The report, entitled eHealth 301: Electronic Prescriptions, builds on two earlier reports analyzing electronic medical records and telemedicine.

“The high-tech industry is a strong supporter of eHealth initiatives such as ePrescribing that lower healthcare costs and improve the safety and delivery of care,” said Matthew Kazmierczak, Vice President, Research and Industry Analysis, AeA. “We were pleased to see that ePrescribing was a key piece of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, which overwhelmingly passed through Congress yesterday. Now we need to ensure that policymakers at the state level help promote ePrescribing and that medical practices across the country embrace the technology.”

If all Medicare prescriptions were transmitted electronically by 2010, federal health expenditures could be reduced by up to $29 billion over the next decade, according to The Gorman Health Group. While the use of ePrescribing systems has increased dramatically over the last several years, only two percent of all prescriptions were transmitted electronically in 2007.

All 25 installments of the AeA Competitiveness Series can be downloaded for free at: www.aeanet.org/cs.


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