Some adopters achieved high levels of SEP use, and further research is needed to elucidate the factors that enabled this.
On average, adopters used the SEP system for only about one-quarter of their prescriptions.
02).Ĭertain categories of physicians may need more tailored incentives to adopt SEP. Available physician characteristics explained little of the variance in use, but physicians in smaller practices had greater use (P =. Twenty percent of physicians maintained e-prescribing use ratios above 0.50. The mean (SD) e-prescribing use ratio among adopters was 0.23 (0.28). Solo practitioners, pediatricians, and physicians with more patients from predominantly African American zip codes were underrepresented among SEP adopters. Independent variables included characteristics of PCPs (specialty, practice size, and prescribing volume) and their patients (patient age, sex, race/ethnicity, and household income). Among 297 adopters, we studied the extent of SEP use.ĭependent variables included each physician's adoption of SEP and his or her e-prescribing use ratio (the ratio of electronic prescriptions to pharmacy claims in the same period). Using records from an insurer-led SEP initiative, we compared the characteristics of 297 PCPs who adopted SEP through the initiative with the characteristics of 1892 eligible PCPs who did not. To quantify rates of stand-alone e-prescribing (SEP) adoption and use among primary care physicians (PCPs) participating in a SEP initiative and to determine which physician and patient characteristics were associated with higher rates of each.