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MFA Partners in Free Electronic Prescribing Initiative

Contact Name: David Garofalo

Contact Phone: 202/741-3381

A coalition of the nation's most prominent technology companies and leading healthcare organizations including the GW Medical Faculty Associates (MFA), announced a national initiative to provide free electronic prescribing for every physician in America. The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI) is the first nationwide effort to improve patient safety by offering a solution to the medication errors that harm millions of people each year.

NEPSI will help address those barriers by providing physicians simple, safe and secure electronic prescribing at no cost. NEPSI is led by Allscripts, the leading provider of clinical software, information and connectivity solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, and by national sponsor Dell Computers, Inc., the world's leading computer company. Other technology companies sponsoring NEPSI are Cisco Systems, Fujitsu Computers of America, Google, Microsoft, and Sprint Nextel.
 
NEPSI included the GW Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) among more than a dozen of the most prestigious and leading academic medical centers, integrated delivery networks and physician groups representing thousands of physicians across the country. These organizations will serve as regional supporters of NEPSI, leading the delivery and support of electronic prescribing to physicians in their states and regions by providing education, training, incentives and local physician support.

"The MFA strongly endorses the announced goals of Allscripts and NEPSI - improving patient safety and changing the Electronic Health Record (EHR) from concept to reality for physicians around the country." Stephen Badger, CEO of the MFA stated. " Having led the MFA through the transformational process from paper to electronic records, the benefits to the patient and to the provider, far exceeded even the most optimistic scenarios. More efficient and safe medicine practiced by our physician group for our patients led to an increased and unexpected financial benefit. Realizing a financial gain with the implementation of a safe and more efficient practice of medicine for our patients should make for an easier recipe to prescribe for physicians around the country to begin the transition to an EHR system."