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eClinicalWorks Users Annual Meeting – Integration and the Future of EHRS and PHRs

The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), has to be one of the very early readers of the Medical Quack and I have featured their press releases as they have moved along, and the president was the Keynote speaker. Dr. Halamka is featured all...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 5:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Google Health, e-prescribing, integration, personal health record, Healthcre, eClinicalWorks

Information on E-Prescribing – Read Up

Sure Scripts has a wealth of information available and I have summarized a portion of some of the important facts here. You can also use .png?imgmax=800" width="197" height="126" alt="" /> the interactive map found here to see which pharmacies participate...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 4:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, e-prescribing, FDA, Pharmacies, DEA, Sure Scripts, federal disasters, Emergency medicine, ICER.org

E-Prescribing Reminder – Effective January 1, Medicare will pay 2% bonus to those who use a “Qualified” program or system

A qualified system is not faxing! Many offices who are set up with an EMR or EHR are already covered and are either set up and ready to go or have the capabilities. For those who are not, there’s a permanent link on this page to NEPSI, the...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 10:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing

Google Health Vendors you can connect with and import records

It has been a while since I updated some of the vendors that you can import in to your online health records. First of all there is Walgreens .png?imgmax=800" width="129" align="right" alt="" /> and Longs Drugs. You can import your drug records...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 9:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, e-prescribing, Longs Drugs, Allscripts, Walgreen, personal health record, Minute Clinic, Healthcre

E-Prescribing Competition and Battle Begins

As a physician, if you haven’t been marketed yet, you might expect some marketing efforts forthcoming soon. In Florida the insurance companies are offering free e-prescribing and I might guess by going through a clearinghouse that this will go directly...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 6:11 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, e-prescribing, HMO, e-Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Patient, Pay for Performance

Paperless prescriptions – 2% higher reimbursement rate with Medicare starts January 2009

6 months is not that long , so I would think any physician who is not presently e-Prescribing might want to seriously take a look and think hard about it. A little practice and learning curve ahead of time can’t hurt . Many offices already...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 6:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, medicare, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, Drug Information

Proposed E-Prescribing Regulations: A Windfall for Consultants and Software Vendors?

This is what the DEA is recommending for their report on E-Prescribing. The portion about confirming the physician’s authority though is not a bad idea at all in view of the Medicare Fraud this week involving “dead doctors” who were still prescribing...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 11:10 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, EHR, Physicians, Pharma, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, DEA

Pharmacy Giants Create Electronic Prescribing Behemoth

The merger of these 2 companies does make perfect sense. For those physicians who have already been using e-Prescribing, this has been an issue with some of the mail order companies in accepting prescriptions in this fashion as well. The...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 9:15 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, Generic Drugs, Pharmaceutials

DEA Publishes Controlled Rx Rule

There are 60 pages of the report to read and they are accepting comments . Amazing it has taken this long for this to work it’s way to the forefront. This has been a rub even for those physicians who have embraced e-Prescribing . If...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 11:23 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, DEA

DEA To Propose Rule To Allow E-Rx of Controlled Substances – Sign up for FREE E-Prescribing Information

If you haven’t heard enough about e-Prescribing this week, well here’s more, and potentially good news from the DEA. Last month I had referenced an article from Paul Levy and he mentioned a test pilot program that was in place, so hopefully the...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 3:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Records, EHR, e-prescribing

Democrats Seek Support From Moderate Republicans Medicare Package – Physician Pay Cuts and e-Prescribing

This gets a little confusing as both the Medicare Physician pay cuts and e-Prescribing have been rolled together of late. What is staring physicians right in the face is the 10% Medicare pay cut on July 1st, that’s right, less than a month away...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 2:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, medicare, e-prescribing, Physicain Pay Cuts

Why no e-Prescribing in the ED?

Excellent post from Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston relating to controlled substances and using e-prescribing...I think every physician who uses e-prescribing has the same legitimate complaint ...everything else is done via the computer...

Published Wed, May 05 2008 1:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Controlled substances, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, ER Room

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