Electronic Prescription

By Neil Versel,

The new Medicare Part B fee schedule for 2010 is encouraging doctors to adopt EHRs by, for the first time, allowing practices to use real clinical data from EHRs and e-prescribing systems to report quality measures for the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and e-prescribing incentive programs. The change, according to CMS, [...]

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Posted November 20, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Hospital, Medicare Incentive

The electronic prescriptions issued by Walgreens chain of pharmacy establishments across USA have seen an unprecedented rise of 185% touching the 4 billion mark in October 2009 as compared to the electronic records issued last year, based on the statement made by the Walgreens officials.
This achievement has demonstrated the impact of Healthcare improvements for Patients [...]

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

Bernie Monegain, Editor
Key changes to physician quality reporting and e-prescribing incentives are being proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.
The proposed changes add reporting measures and a way for reporting by group practice rather than individual physician, as well as provisions for EHR-based reporting. For e-prescribing, CMS aims to simplify the reporting measures.
The Physician [...]

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Posted November 12, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, EMR, Electronic Prescription

CMS recently announced that it will update incentives for its physician quality reporting initiative and its electronic prescribing program under the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Health Data Management reports.
The agency plans to publish the final rule and open a public comment period on Nov. 25 (Goedert, Health Data Management, 11/2).
Quality Reporting
Under the updated rule, [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing Program, EHR systems, Health Data Management
Posted November 10, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, EMR, Electronic Prescription

Bernie Monegain, Editor
Surescripts will adopt a new version of a technical standard that’s recommended by federal regulators as part of a $19 billion incentive program to encourage greater use of electronic health records.
The standard – referred to by industry participants as “NCPDP SCRIPT 10.6″ – allows physicians using electronic health record software to electronically access [...]

Tags: CMS, EHR, electronic health record, electronic prescriptions, SureScripts
Posted November 9, 2009 by admin under EMR, Electronic Prescription