Pharmacists will no longer feel the pinch of e-prescribing after eRx Script Exchange cut its fees to match the Federal Government’s 15 cent incentive per script.
The new pricing structure has been designed so that pharmacists will pay a 15 cent fee on each prescription dispensed and then receive 15 cents from the government as of [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, eRx, Script
Posted May 28, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
One of Ohio’s biggest health insurance companies is trying to convince doctors to forego their old-fashioned prescription pads more often.
Cleveland-based Medical Mutual of Ohio is teaming up with its pharmacy benefits manager, Medco Health Solutions, for a pilot program that gives select doctors financial incentives to prescribe medications electronically.
Medical Mutual is signing up 250 of [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, ePrescribing
Posted May 21, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By Lebowitz & Mzhen
In a recent news that our Baltimore, Maryland Attorneys have been following, doctors are reportedly increasingly leaving behind paper when prescribing medications, and depending more and more on electronic prescriptions, or “e-prescriptions”—in an effort to avoid pharmacy misfills and medication errors, along with hard-to-read doctor handwriting, or even prescription fraud, as our [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, misfills, prescriptions
Posted May 17, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
By Pamela Lewis Dolan,
A new report finds a significant uptick in the number of physicians who prescribe electronically. But the e-prescribers still only account for about one in four physicians, or 26% of office-based doctors.
The numbers come from Surescripts, which operates the nation’s largest e-prescribing network. It released its annual e-prescribing progress report on March [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, EMRs, SureScripts
Posted May 6, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
Leadership and vision are crucial for an e-prescribing initiative because effective leadership is necessary to build commitment across a team, according to Diane R. Jones, JD, vice president of policy and programs at e-Health Initiative during an informational webinar on the current and future states of e-prescribing.
“The staff needs to be open to change and [...]
Tags: E-Prescribing, prescriber, Webinar
Posted May 3, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
