The Center for Improving Medication Management

- Founders
- Board of Directors

E-Prescribing: Becoming Mainstream Practice

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

A Consumer's Guide
to E-Prescribing

Understanding the Benefits of E-Prescribing

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The Federal Register

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.