Electronic Prescription

Key step in national initiative toward adoption of electronic health records
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), Chicago, Ill. and the Drummond Group Inc. (DGI), Austin, Texas, were named today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as the first technology review bodies that have been authorized to test [...]

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Posted August 31, 2010 by admin under EHR, EMR

This week, the Medical Group Management Association sent a letter to CMS urging the agency to modify provisions of its proposed 2011 physician fee schedule relating to the electronic prescription and electronic health record programs, Modern Healthcare reports (Lubell, Modern Healthcare, 8/25).
The letter comments on CMS’ proposed rules for the Medicare Part B physician fee [...]

Tags: Certified Prescription, E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, eRx
Posted August 30, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

ROCHESTER, NY – The electronic prescribing rate in upstate New York increased from 12 percent in 2009 to 17 percent in the first quarter of 2010, representing 3.6 million new and renewed prescriptions on an annual basis, according to a new report. The report suggests that this number will grow significantly as the result of [...]

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Posted August 19, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

With a regulatory stroke, the Obama White House has swept away the last serious legal hurdle set by the federal government to the nationwide conversion of the healthcare system to the electronic prescription and transmission of prescription drugs.
The breakthrough came in June when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration struck down legal impediments to the electronic [...]

Tags: Certified Prescription, E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, eRx, SureScripts
Posted August 11, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

The rate of electronic prescribing in upstate New York increased from 12% in 2009 to 17% in the first quarter of this year, a new report by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield found, Healthcare IT News reports (Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 7/15).
The report also concluded that the percentage of physicians across the U.S. who use the technology [...]

Tags: Certified Prescription, E-Prescribing, E-Prescribing Systems, E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription
Posted August 4, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Electronic Prescription