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

Now all physicians can access guidance on everything from selecting a system to calculating incentive earnings.

By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff.
The American Medical Association has unveiled its enhanced online e-prescribing learning center and opened it up to all physicians.

The learning center, first launched April 1, offers a one-stop shop for physicians seeking information [...]

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Posted July 20, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

The AMA has created an extensive online resource.
By the close of 2008, only about 13% of physicians were prescribing electronically. The prescription pad and pen still rule in most offices.
But doctors are getting a nudge to automate their prescribing process. Physicians who prescribe electronically for their Medicare patients will be eligible for incentive payments. This [...]

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

Nationwide efforts aimed at bringing about a transformation from paper based prescribing to electronic prescribing received a push, as results of a new survey revealed that most physicians who participated in an eprescribing pilot believed the technology helped them in practicing better and safer medicine.
The survey, conducted by HaldyMcIntosh & Associates, for the Southeastern [...]

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Posted April 28, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription