Electronic Prescription

Maria A. Friedman, Anthony Schueth and Douglas S. Bell

Abstract
Although the vast majority of U.S. physicians still handwrite prescriptions, adoption of electronic prescribing is slowly growing. Major barriers to adoption remain, including the inability to electronically submit prescriptions for controlled substances and confusion about standards for data exchange. Federal and state governments and [...]

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Posted August 11, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

The Department of Health and Human Services (”HHS”) issued comprehensible, no surprises guidance under the final HIPAA privacy rule that went into effect on April 14, 2001. From the perspective of all but the health care provider community, the guidance was pretty much a nonevent; HHS addresses issues that are primarily of relevance to providers. [...]

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Posted August 10, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription

By: Althea Blackwell, DC Government Technology Examiner

The health care reform legislation being discussed by Congress is designed to control costs, improve care and expand health insurance coverage to most of the 46 million uninsured Americans. The health care debate may continue past the August deadline but once the plan is passed the uninsured and [...]

Tags: Electronic Medical Record, Electronic Prescribing, EMR, Federal Health Architecture, Health Information Technology, Healthcare System
Posted August 4, 2009 by admin under EMR, 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 [...]

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Posted August 3, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

by Mark Sanchez | Business Review Western Michigan

He gave up the paper pad four years ago and now only writes prescriptions for patients electronically.

While Dr. Richard Smith can’t specifically quantify the results, he knows without any doubt that e-prescribing has generated efficiencies in his medical practice.

“As you accept it [...]

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Posted July 31, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Florida’s medical examiners recently reported that prescription medicines caused more deaths in 2008 than illicit drugs. The medical examiners also reported sharp increases in deaths caused by prescription tranquilizers and painkillers, such as Oxycodone and hydrocodone.
The results of the year-end report weren’t surprising. Since the middle of last year, physicians, pharmacists and law enforcement officials [...]

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Posted July 29, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Zero-In RX is a one-stop shop for electronic prescribing information and resources for physicians

Earlier this year the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a new online learning center to provide physicians with the information and tools they need to make informed decisions about electronic prescribing (ePrescribing). Today, the AMA unveils enhanced tools for ePrescribing and [...]

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Posted July 29, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

State policymakers hope incentives help drive up adoption rates.
By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff.

A bill pending in Massachusetts has a goal of pushing more electronic prescribing in a state already tops in such activity.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Peter J. Koutoujian, would provide tax incentives to any corporation with licensed physicians that [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, e-prescribing technology, Electronic Prescribing, SureScripts
Posted July 27, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

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 [...]

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Posted July 24, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription

More physicians are transitioning to electronic prescribing as the number of incentives for doing so grows, the Wall Street Journal reports.

In the past year, the number of physicians prescribing medicines electronically has more than doubled to roughly 70,000, or about 12% of office-based physicians, the Journal reports.

Incentives
This month, CMS began offering a [...]

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Posted July 20, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription