Electronic Prescription

By Mary Mosquera
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to test its ability to accept selected clinical quality data directly from hospital electronic health record systems as early as July 2010.
CMS said it would seek volunteer hospitals to report stroke, blood clot and emergency department measures of care via EHR systems as part [...]

Tags: CMS, EHR systems, electronic health records, Reporting Hospital Quality
Posted October 21, 2009 by admin under EMR, Electronic Prescription, Hospital

By John Moore
Health and Human Services Department officials looked to spark the adoption of e-prescribing at a conference this week attended by some 1,400 health care professionals and industry representatives.
The meeting, held in Boston and sponsored by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, was put together in six weeks in preparation for the planned [...]

Tags: CMS, E-Prescribing, Human Services Department, RxNT
Posted October 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, EMR, Electronic Prescription

By Sally Gainsbury
Electronic prescribing systems that reduce the possibility of human error could cut clinical negligence claims by more than 70 per cent, according to US hospital chain Banner Health.
The company, which has worked with national IT programme supplier Cerner to evaluate the impact of its electronic prescribing system, said systems that reduced the possibility [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, Electronic Prescribing, Electronic prescribing systems
Posted October 21, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Hospital

By Nancy zz_Ferris
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said today he expects the e-prescribing incentives and penalties in the Medicare bill passed this month to have a profound effect on the adoption and use of e-prescribing.
Although President Bush vetoed the bill, Congress overrode the veto, and Kerry Weems, acting administrator of the Centers for [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, e-prescribing provisions
Posted October 20, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, EMR

By John Moore
The Health and Human Services Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration are reviewing the feedback they have received on DEA proposed rule on e-prescribing for controlled substances, but the final rule might not emerge this year.
DEA published the proposed rule earlier this year, which would impose security requirements for e-prescribing of controlled substances. [...]

Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, eHealth, Electronic Prescribing, HHS
Posted October 15, 2009 by admin under EMR, Electronic Prescription, Hospital

By Mary Mosquera
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) plans to collect information from physicians and pharmacies that electronically transmit prescriptions in order to help identify what accelerates and what hinders the adoption of e-prescribing.
AHRQ will interview physicians, medical directors, IT administrators, pharmacists and others at 110 organizations over two years, the agency said [...]

Tags: AHRQ, E-Prescribing, e-prescribing practices
Posted October 14, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Hospital