Electronic Prescription

If your medical practice has not yet implemented electronic prescribing, you are among about 70 percent of physicians in the nation. You also may be missing out on free money.
On January 1, Medicare began paying a 2-percent bonus to physicians who use a qualified e-prescription system on 50 percent of their Medicare patients. That incentive [...]

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Posted July 9, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Tennessee posted the second best improvement among states last year in use of computers by doctors to send prescriptions electronically to pharmacists, according to the latest ranking by the nation’s largest e-prescribing network.
Overall, health-care providers statewide issued more than 1.78 million electronic prescriptions in 2008, representing more than 4 percent of prescriptions eligible to be [...]

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Posted June 24, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

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

Have you ever looked at the paper prescription your doctor hands you and wondered how anyone could make out those chicken scratches? Although pharmacists seem to have developed an amazing ability to read even the worst doctor handwriting, serious mistakes still occur if they misinterpret a letter or number. Prescriptions written and transmitted electronically, called [...]

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Posted May 13, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Over the past two years, about 84 million U.S. clinicians have traded in their paper prescription pads for electronic prescribing software.
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee InformationWeek

More doctors have traded in their paper prescription pads for e-prescribing over the last two years. However, the bulk of e-prescriptions are being generated by doctors using standalone e-prescribing [...]

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Posted April 27, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription