Electronic Prescription

The latest audit of electronic prescription activity in all 50 states reports that one of every three physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the United State is e-prescribing.
At the fifth annual Safe-Rx Awards in September, held for the first time at the U.S. Capitol, Surescripts, the nation’s largest e-prescribing network, announced that Massachusetts ranked [...]

Tags: Certified Prescription, E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, eRx, SureScripts
Posted October 18, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, 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 [...]

Tags: Comprehensive Ambulatory EHR, EHR, electronic health records, meaningful use ehr, meaningful use of ehr, Outpatient EHR
Posted August 31, 2010 by admin under EHR, EMR

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

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 [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, EHR, Physician Quality Reporting, prescribing electronically
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

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 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