Saturday, May 19, 2012

Various Physician and Pharmacy Systems Go Live on e-Prescribing of Controlled Substances


We are now beginning to see computer systems for prescribers and pharmacy become verified for theelectronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS).

As of this notice, the following systems have completed the process of becomingcertified and audited to connect to the Surescripts network for EPCSpurposes: 
  • Physician application vendors
    • DrFirst
    • NewCrop
    • NextGen
    • RxNT
  • Pharmacy application vendors
    • Cerner Etreby
    • Rite Aid
    • SUPERVALU
    • Walgreens
Additional vendors are expectedto go live in the near future.
  
If you do not see your pharmacyvendor listed here, we encourage you to contact your vendor and inform them ofthe physician vendors in your area that are approved for EPCS.