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    • Electronic Prescribing Adoption and Use by State

    Metadata Updated: July 11, 2025

    Electronic prescribing (eRx) is a key component of the meaningful use of health IT to improve health care quality and lower costs. This dataset includes national and state eRx and health information exchange activity by community pharmacies and office-based health care providers active through the Surescripts Network. Surescripts is a health information network, and ONC procured electronic prescribing activity data conducted within its network from December 2008 through April 2014. The Surescripts network is used by the majority of all U.S. community pharmacies to rout prescriptions, excluding closed systems such as Kaiser Permanente. These include chain, franchise, and independently owned pharmacies. Data for annual percentages of new and renewal prescriptions routed through the Surescripts network exclude controlled substances. You may view more information about Surescripts, contact the company, and access more network data through the company's official site.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    https://www.healthit.gov/data/data-briefs/e-prescribing-trends-united-states
    https://www.healthit.gov/data/quickstats/electronic-health-record-adoption-and-electronic-prescribing

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 11, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 11, 2025
    Publisher Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2023-10-03
    Data Last Modified 2014-06-01
    Category ASTP
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:00
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    Data Dictionary https://www.healthit.gov/data/datasets/electronic-prescribing-adoption-and-use-state
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    Homepage URL https://www.healthit.gov/data/datasets/electronic-prescribing-adoption-and-use-state
    Program Code 009:110
    Related Documents https://www.healthit.gov/data/data-briefs/e-prescribing-trends-united-states, https://www.healthit.gov/data/quickstats/electronic-health-record-adoption-and-electronic-prescribing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 964bd52db95219b2193919e17b03d9618e9289c12de9dcbe90d3c81abd1853b7
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