Free electronic prescribing for U.S. physicians

This is pretty interesting -- the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative is a coalition of some tech companies and healthcare organizations seeking to improve patient safety. From their press release:

eRx NOW™ offers physicians and patients the highest levels of security available, with multiple redundant layers of firewall, deep-packet inspection, SSL encryption, database encryption, intrusion detection and virus, spyware and malware protection for the program’s remote servers. To ensure patient privacy, all patient information is stored on remote servers in a secure location, so information cannot be compromised even if a physician’s computer or phone is stolen.

Interested physicians can visit the NEPSI web site, www.nationaleRx.com to register for the program. The solution is currently being used by physicians and will begin national deployment within 30 days.

Click here to access the NEPSI website.