Electronic Prescription

By: Allison Tsai
Medicare is proposing a rule that would simplify reporting requirements for the Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program and the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative and set the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for calendar year 2010.

The proposal would also add more measures for physicians to report under the PQRI pay-for-performance program, allow data submission from [...]

Tags: E-Prescription, electronic health-record system, Electronic Prescribing, Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program, Medicare proposal
Posted August 3, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer

This month marks the one-year anniversary of the merger of the two largest electronic-prescribing exchanges, SureScripts and RxHub, creating a market-dominant, privately held, for-profit company just in time for the federal government to all but mandate that physicians e-prescribe.

So, how is the merger going? The answer depends [...]

Tags: E-prescribing volume, electronic health-record system, Electronic Prescribing, physicians e-prescribe, RxHub, SureScripts
Posted July 24, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription