Welcome to The Center

Helping physicians, pharmacists and patients optimally use technology to improve the way medications are evaluated, prescribed, approved, filled, consumed, refilled, adhered to, and measured for outcomes.

The Center for Improving Medication Management serves as a center for excellence. The Center is a collaborative forum that establishes project specific priorities to demonstrate the value of pharmacy interoperability with both patients and physicians for the purpose of improving the medication management process. The aspects of the medication management focused on are

  • Best practices as it relates to processing prescriptions electronically and

  • Improving patient compliance with physician medication orders by utilizing electronic communications between the patient, pharmacist, and physician.

The Center educates clinicians and their staff on the best approaches to implementing prescribing technology and integrating it with the day-to-day workflow. The Center implements programs that accelerate the automation of the prescribing process. Core to automating the prescribing process is the adoption and use electronic prescribing technologies with physician-pharmacy interoperability as well as the testing of innovative approaches to improve patient compliance with prescribed medications.  Targeted research projects overseen by The Center will evaluate and establish best practices in support of these purposes.



Latest News

March 31, 2008
On Eve of Deadline for Using Tamper-Resistant Prescription Pads, Physician Leaders Expand Electronic Prescribing Initiative

AOA Joins AAFP, AAP, ACC, ACOG and MGMA in Helping More Physicians Get Connected for E-Prescribing

March 4, 2008
Physician Leaders Launch "Get Connected" Program to Help Thousands of Peers Start E-prescribing

Effort Aims to Help Physicians Meet Medicare Deadline While Increasing Prescription Accuracy and Medication Safety

October 18, 2007
The Center For Improving Medication Management Elects Board Of Directors

AAFP's Dr. Steven Waldren Named Chairman

August 15, 2007 Surescripts® Joins With Physicians, Payers And Employers To Improve Technology's Impact On Medication Safety

Center for Improving Medication Management Will Better Inform and Drive the Adoption and Use of Technology by Pharmacists, Physicians and Patients

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