This new industry briefing from DrFirst highlights trends and advances with electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS), and reveals that retail pharmacies have adopted EPCS technology at a swift pace, while providers lag far behind. While the majority of U.S. pharmacies are EPCS enabled, only about six percent of prescribers nationwide have this ability-despite the fact that roughly 90 percent of EHRs are EPCS-enabled. It also shows how prescribers in New York are scrambling to comply with the state’s new EPCS mandate.