Table 1.

Characteristics of participating physician practices

Characteristic	Number of practices (N=24)*
Specialty
Primary care	16
Medical or surgical specialty	5
Multispecialty	3
Number of physicians
1–9	12
10–49	7
50–500	5
Practice ownership
Physician	17
Hospital	6
Faculty practice	1
Type of e-prescribing system†
Part of electronic health record system	17
Stand-alone system	7
Number of years prescriptions sent electronically
<2	12
2+	12
Estimated percentage of prescriptions sent electronically
<70	6
70+	17
Unknown	1

^*Two practices were interviewed in each of the 12 Community Tracking Study (CTS) sites: Boston; Cleveland; Greenville, South Carolina; Indianapolis; Lansing, Michigan; Little Rock, Arkansas; Miami; northern New Jersey; Orange County, California; Phoenix; Seattle; and Syracuse, New York.

^†Twelve different commercial e-prescribing vendors were represented. Among the 17 practices using electronic health record systems, vendors included: Allscripts (4), eClinicalWorks (2), Epic (3), GE Centricity (2), GEMMS, McKesson, MedENT, NextGen (2), and one homegrown system. Stand-alone e-prescribing system vendors used in the remaining seven practices included: Allscripts (2), InstantDX, Prematic, RelayHealth (2) and DrFirst, which was integrated into a Greenway Medical Technologies electronic health record system.