Electronic Prescription

Physicians have been encouraged to switch from paper records to electronic systems in their offices, and the push seems to be working. In 2010, 50.7% of office-based doctors used some type of electronic medical records system — more than twice the adoption rate through 2005, says a December 2010 survey by the Centers for Disease [...]

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Posted March 18, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Electronic Prescription

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 5, 2011
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January 5, 2011 – Integrated Systems Management Inc announced today that OmniMD™ EHR, Version 11.0 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a Complete EHR on January 4, 2011 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable (eligible provider) certification [...]

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Posted January 6, 2011 by admin under EHR, EMR, Hospital, Medicare Incentive

WASHINGTON – The American Medical Association (AMA) and 103 state and specialty medical societies are urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to revise the Medicare e-prescribing penalty policy, which would penalize physicians in 2012 if they don’t e-prescribe in the first six months of 2011.
The letter, sent by the AMA to HHS [...]

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Posted January 3, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Electronic Prescription

The Obama administration used about half of a 50-page report on innovations targeted by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to underscore the importance of health and medical IT to the nation’s economic future.
The stimulus legislation, passed in February 2009, was designed to jumpstart the economy.
In presenting the report, Vice President Joe Biden, who was [...]

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Posted October 26, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, 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

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 Mary Mosquera
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) plans to collect information from physicians and pharmacies that electronically transmit prescriptions in order to help identify what accelerates and what hinders the adoption of e-prescribing.
AHRQ will interview physicians, medical directors, IT administrators, pharmacists and others at 110 organizations over two years, the agency said [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, electronic health records, prescribing practices
Posted September 2, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription