Electronic Prescription

Overview
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced Changes to the Medicare Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program for Calendar Year 2011.
Background
Section 132 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) required the Secretary to establish a new reporting program for eligible professionals who are successful electronic prescribers as [...]

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Posted September 2, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

Health care providers participating in both eRx and EHR incentive programs can now breathe easy. Under a new rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed modification of its electronic prescription (eRx) incentive program thereby better aligning it with its EHR incentive plan.
Providers participating in the EHR incentive program had been concerned [...]

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Posted June 6, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

This week, a group of six national health care organizations released an updated guide on electronic prescribing systems for health care providers, HealthLeaders Media reports.
The guide — titled “A Clinician’s Guide to Electronic Prescribing” — was first published in 2008 (Commins, HealthLeaders Media, 4/28).
The organizations that collaborated on the update are the:

American Academy of Family [...]

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Posted May 11, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

Federal health officials should more closely align the electronic prescription and meaningful use incentive payment programs, according to a letter from the Medical Group Management Association, Health Data Management reports.
According to MGMA, eligible professionals could be unfairly penalized by the programs’ inconsistent requirements (Goedert, Health Data Management, 3/17).

Details of Incentive Programs
Under 2009 economic stimulus package, [...]

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Posted April 22, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

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

CMS must resolve differences in the meaningful use and electronic prescribing incentive payment programs, according to a Government Accountability Office report, Government Health IT reports.
Details of Meaningful Use, E-Prescribing Incentives
Both the meaningful use program and the E Prescription program will provide incentive payments to encourage the adoption of health IT. Under the 2009 economic stimulus [...]

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Posted March 8, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription

The American Academy of Family Physicians will offer its primary care members a Web-based service that enables secure electronic communication between providers over the Surescripts network.
The Electronic Prescription network will use a representation of the Direct Project standards and services for simple health information exchanges, according to an announcement Feb. 15 by AAFP and Surescripts.
AAFP [...]

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Posted February 21, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Electronic Prescription

Doctors can now submit prescriptions for schedule II, III, IV, and V controlled substances electronically under a new Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rule.
DEA’s interim final rule, “Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances,” could make things easier for many physicians who are already electronically prescribing noncontrolled drugs, according to Steven Waldren, MD, director of the Center for [...]

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Posted January 25, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Electronic Prescription

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has named electronic prescribing network provider Surescripts as an organization that can test and approve certain electronic health records modules, bringing to a total of six the groups authorized under ONC’s temporary certification program.
Surescripts, based in Arlington, Va., will verify that EHR modules for e-prescribing and [...]

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

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