Electronic Prescription

by Mahoney, Diana
“E-prescribing saves lives, it saves money, and it’s time we implement it,” according to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt.
Streamlining the bloated health care system “is an economic imperative for our country. We have to get down to making the system better, and [e-prescribing] is one piece of a large puzzle,” [...]

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Posted August 25, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Will Dunham
As many as 75 percent of U.S. doctors will be writing electronic prescriptions within five years, thanks to new federal spending to encourage e-prescribing, according to a forecast released on Monday.
The economic stimulus bill signed by President Barack Obama in February included about $19 billion to promote the use of healthcare information technology, [...]

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Posted August 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By News Sentinel staff
Tennessee is recognized as one of the top five most improved states in routing prescriptions electronically.
Surescripts, a health information network that operates the country’s largest electronic prescribing network, announced that Tennessee ranked second behind Vermont and just ahead of Kansas, Illinois and Missouri on the top five list. Recognized as the country’s [...]

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Posted August 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Elizabeth Cooney
Patients who do not take their medications as prescribed pay a price in poorer health, more frequent hospitalizations, and a higher risk of death. Collectively, they also incur up to $290 billion annually in increased medical costs, according to a Boston-based health policy group that urges making the issue part of the [...]

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Posted August 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

It steers doctors toward lower-cost drugs, study finds

By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter
An electronic prescribing system that tells doctors which drugs are the least expensive can save millions a year, a new study finds.
“One of the challenges physicians face is that they don’t know which drugs are preferred or not preferred,” said Dr. [...]

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Posted August 19, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

E-prescribing – a prescriber’s ability to electronically send an accurate, error-free and understandable prescription directly to a pharmacy from the point-of-care – is an important element in improving the quality of patient care. The inclusion of electronic prescribing in the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 gave momentum to the movement, and the July 2006 [...]

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Posted August 17, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Christine Harrell

Under the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) providers who implement e-prescription programs are eligible for incentives. Offices are looking for medical software to help them implement this program and reap the rewards.

The E-Prescription Incentive Program

In 2003 the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) included provisions for electronic prescriptions. Growing [...]

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Posted August 13, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Maria A. Friedman, Anthony Schueth and Douglas S. Bell

Abstract
Although the vast majority of U.S. physicians still handwrite prescriptions, adoption of electronic prescribing is slowly growing. Major barriers to adoption remain, including the inability to electronically submit prescriptions for controlled substances and confusion about standards for data exchange. Federal and state governments and [...]

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Posted August 11, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

The Department of Health and Human Services (”HHS”) issued comprehensible, no surprises guidance under the final HIPAA privacy rule that went into effect on April 14, 2001. From the perspective of all but the health care provider community, the guidance was pretty much a nonevent; HHS addresses issues that are primarily of relevance to providers. [...]

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Posted August 10, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription

The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy has submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on a proposed rule addressing changes to Medicare Part B payment policy. Specifically, AMCP commented on incentives for e-prescribing and on the revision of requirements for approved compendia for the determination of medically-accepted indications for off-label uses [...]

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Posted August 9, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription