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

Four pharmacy organizations say they support the Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to allow electronic prescribing of controlled substances but called for further clarification on the new e-prescribing rule, Modern Healthcare reports.
On March 31, DEA published in the Federal Register its interim final rule on e-prescribing of controlled substances. According to DEA public affairs officer Barbara [...]

Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, Pharmacy Groups
Posted July 1, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

OmniMD™ one of the leading healthcare information technology companies, which provides Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PMS) and other Healthcare IT products and services to their providers and clinics across the nation is proudly announcing achievement of Surescripts® Gold Solution Provider status for its OmniMD Version 8.2 e-prescribing product.  This designation has only been [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, EMR, SureScripts Gold
Posted June 23, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By Jim Frederick
WASHINGTON (Jun. 1) Capping a decade-long -– and ultimately victorious -– battle by pharmacy and technology interests to modernize all facets of the prescription prescribing and dispensing process, the Drug Enforcement Administration has struck down legal impediments to the electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
In an announcement this afternoon, the DEA issued its interim [...]

Tags: DEA, E-Prescribing, NACDS
Posted June 11, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

By, Healthcare IT News
Surescripts, the Nation’s E-Prescription Network, today announced that eight vendors representing nine physician software products have completed Gold certification. The resulting Gold Solution Provider status is granted to vendors with software products that have surpassed Surescripts’ baseline product certification to meet criteria that demonstrate a higher level commitment to e-prescribing.
The following vendors [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, omnimd, SureScripts
Posted June 2, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

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