ePrescribing - Infrastructure and Impact on the Healthcare Markets in the US

Technology has been used to either inform or expedite the prescribing process in most modern healthcare systems for over two decades. Recently, market forces - including greater regulatory intervention, increased investment from stakeholders and decreased resistance from end-users - have begun to converge to set the stage for widespread adoption of truly integrated ePrescribing solutions.

One of the greatest challenges facing ePrescribing has been finding a balance between the wants and needs of industry and end-users. Several stakeholders have been vying for influence over the design and implementation of ePrescribing systems. While this has served to move the market forward considerable conflicts of interest have also emerged.

The attitude of the physician towards ePrescribing is the most important consideration for stakeholders because it is the point at which adoption either stalls or moves forward. Historically, physicians have been offered a variety of reasons and incentives to adopt ePrescribing, with varying degrees of success.

It is the pharmaceutical industry's responsibility to ensure that decisions made at the point of care are not unduly controlled by other stakeholders, such as disruptive messaging meant to influence a physician to continuously second-guess specific prescribing decisions, or inequitable screen displays, which give preference to certain treatments.

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