Electronic Prescription

Now all physicians can access guidance on everything from selecting a system to calculating incentive earnings.

By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff.
The American Medical Association has unveiled its enhanced online e-prescribing learning center and opened it up to all physicians.

The learning center, first launched April 1, offers a one-stop shop for physicians seeking information [...]

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Posted July 20, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

By Lorraine Savage
Everyone, it seems, wants doctors to e-prescribe. Physicians are facing an onslaught of government incentives, state and local urgings, and healthcare and consumer organizations’ guilt to make the transition from antiquated paper prescription pads to 21st century electronic prescription systems.
Medicare Incentive Program
The biggest step toward universal e-prescribing was the passage on [...]

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Posted June 22, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

Electronic Systems Shown to Reduce Dangerous Errors; A Cure for Poor Penmanship
With a host of new incentives, doctors are finally beginning to scrap pen and paper in favor of electronic prescriptions.
Medicare began paying doctors a bonus if they switch their patients over to e-prescribing. Some private health plans also have begun offering extra payments along [...]

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Posted June 16, 2009 by admin under Medicare Incentive