The combination of collaborative drug therapy management and E-prescribing.

Many discussions regarding electronic prescribing (E-prescribing) continue to focus on "who" should be responsible for building the communication platform: retail pharmacy or managed care. National pharmacy practice experts were interviewed to discuss a broader question: Given the potential for E-prescribing to reduce medication errors and improve communication between pharmacists and physicians, and given the increasing trend toward formal arrangements between pharmacists and physicians to establish collaborative drug therapy management (CDTM) practice settings, what are the implications for the practice of pharmacy? Specifically, how can technology for E-prescribing assist in the expansion of CDTM opportunities for the pharmacy profession?

A second and more promising round of E-health enterprises.

After several years of false starts and failed enterprises, E-medicine is starting to generate practical applications in health care. The new generation of E-businesses is benefiting from the dot-com bust, which has driven away expectations of high financial returns from enterprises based on overblown, ill-fitting models taken from non-health care industries. The more successful new models are adapted to hospital operations and practice patterns, and are backed by money and management indigenous to medicine.