| Characteristic . | Number of practices (N=24)* . |
|---|---|
| Specialty | |
| Primary care | 16 |
| Medical or surgical specialty | 5 |
| Multispecialty | 3 |
| Number of physicians | |
| 1–9 | 12 |
| 10–49 | 7 |
| 50–500 | 5 |
| Practice ownership | |
| Physician | 17 |
| Hospital | 6 |
| Faculty practice | 1 |
| Type of e-prescribing system† | |
| Part of electronic health record system | 17 |
| Stand-alone system | 7 |
| Number of years prescriptions sent electronically | |
| <2 | 12 |
| 2+ | 12 |
| Estimated percentage of prescriptions sent electronically | |
| <70 | 6 |
| 70+ | 17 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Characteristic . | Number of practices (N=24)* . |
|---|---|
| Specialty | |
| Primary care | 16 |
| Medical or surgical specialty | 5 |
| Multispecialty | 3 |
| Number of physicians | |
| 1–9 | 12 |
| 10–49 | 7 |
| 50–500 | 5 |
| Practice ownership | |
| Physician | 17 |
| Hospital | 6 |
| Faculty practice | 1 |
| Type of e-prescribing system† | |
| Part of electronic health record system | 17 |
| Stand-alone system | 7 |
| Number of years prescriptions sent electronically | |
| <2 | 12 |
| 2+ | 12 |
| Estimated percentage of prescriptions sent electronically | |
| <70 | 6 |
| 70+ | 17 |
| Unknown | 1 |
Two practices were interviewed in each of the 12 Community Tracking Study (CTS) sites: Boston; Cleveland; Greenville, South Carolina; Indianapolis; Lansing, Michigan; Little Rock, Arkansas; Miami; northern New Jersey; Orange County, California; Phoenix; Seattle; and Syracuse, New York.
Twelve different commercial e-prescribing vendors were represented. Among the 17 practices using electronic health record systems, vendors included: Allscripts (4), eClinicalWorks (2), Epic (3), GE Centricity (2), GEMMS, McKesson, MedENT, NextGen (2), and one homegrown system. Stand-alone e-prescribing system vendors used in the remaining seven practices included: Allscripts (2), InstantDX, Prematic, RelayHealth (2) and DrFirst, which was integrated into a Greenway Medical Technologies electronic health record system.
| Characteristic . | Number of practices (N=24)* . |
|---|---|
| Specialty | |
| Primary care | 16 |
| Medical or surgical specialty | 5 |
| Multispecialty | 3 |
| Number of physicians | |
| 1–9 | 12 |
| 10–49 | 7 |
| 50–500 | 5 |
| Practice ownership | |
| Physician | 17 |
| Hospital | 6 |
| Faculty practice | 1 |
| Type of e-prescribing system† | |
| Part of electronic health record system | 17 |
| Stand-alone system | 7 |
| Number of years prescriptions sent electronically | |
| <2 | 12 |
| 2+ | 12 |
| Estimated percentage of prescriptions sent electronically | |
| <70 | 6 |
| 70+ | 17 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Characteristic . | Number of practices (N=24)* . |
|---|---|
| Specialty | |
| Primary care | 16 |
| Medical or surgical specialty | 5 |
| Multispecialty | 3 |
| Number of physicians | |
| 1–9 | 12 |
| 10–49 | 7 |
| 50–500 | 5 |
| Practice ownership | |
| Physician | 17 |
| Hospital | 6 |
| Faculty practice | 1 |
| Type of e-prescribing system† | |
| Part of electronic health record system | 17 |
| Stand-alone system | 7 |
| Number of years prescriptions sent electronically | |
| <2 | 12 |
| 2+ | 12 |
| Estimated percentage of prescriptions sent electronically | |
| <70 | 6 |
| 70+ | 17 |
| Unknown | 1 |
Two practices were interviewed in each of the 12 Community Tracking Study (CTS) sites: Boston; Cleveland; Greenville, South Carolina; Indianapolis; Lansing, Michigan; Little Rock, Arkansas; Miami; northern New Jersey; Orange County, California; Phoenix; Seattle; and Syracuse, New York.
Twelve different commercial e-prescribing vendors were represented. Among the 17 practices using electronic health record systems, vendors included: Allscripts (4), eClinicalWorks (2), Epic (3), GE Centricity (2), GEMMS, McKesson, MedENT, NextGen (2), and one homegrown system. Stand-alone e-prescribing system vendors used in the remaining seven practices included: Allscripts (2), InstantDX, Prematic, RelayHealth (2) and DrFirst, which was integrated into a Greenway Medical Technologies electronic health record system.
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