CVS Caremark will launch a pilot of a 
real-time, integrated electronic prior authorization capability, available to its pharmacy benefit management clients, to help speed access to prescription medications.


Bills introduced in the legislatures of nearly a dozen states have pharmacy benefit managers and the generic drug industry fearing that the bills could lead to limits on doctors’ abilities to prescribe generics through e-prescribing.

Opening another front in its long campaign to extend electronic prescribing and health information technology...

Since the turn of the 21st century, community pharmacy and its technology allies have waged...

In honor of its dedication to driving the adoption of e-prescribing technology in Michigan, the...

Capping a decade-long -– and ultimately victorious -– battle by pharmacy and technology interests to...

Efforts by retail pharmacies and pharmacy groups to spur the adoption of electronic-prescribing technology among...

American retail pharmacy continued its slow but inexorable journey into the 21st century in 2009...

Relative to the national chains, independent pharmacies have limited resources and, given the importance and...

Surescripts, the electronic prescribing company founded in 2001 by the National Association of Chain Drug...

The United States has long been a laggard in healthcare information technology, but the country...