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All I can say here is that this goes back to a earlier post: The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers In this case we have a bit of both, algorithms created by the scientists, but a requested change by the clinical side of the table? Sounds a bit like the algorithms run...
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11-19-2008
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You have probably read about this in the news already, but now it looks like they are going after the companies who enroll consumers with health plans too, sending the same type of letter. For updates from Express Scripts, you can check the main support page for any updates. They have contracted...
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11-12-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, privacy, Prescriptions, Data Breach, Investigation, FBI, Extortion, Express Scripts, Kroll
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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 free e-prescribing initiative where you can sign...
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10-31-2008
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Investors and analysts using The Healthcare Exchange will be able to ask questions of physicians, such as their opinions about a new treatment or device. Sermo has been a community website restricted to physicians to compare and collaborate within their peers and now with the new service investors...
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10-23-2008
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This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher, you can check here relative to Wall Street out coding...
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10-01-2008
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This is a very good article here that talks about what goes on in the back side of a medical practice. When working with an HMO or PPO contract it can be a very time consuming process. Because of all the faxing and paper work that some IPAs require who are not set up on the web, this...
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Will we ever get the DEA away from paper? With the current move to e-prescribing the DEA has not come up with their exact plan yet to work with providers to make it easier to e-prescribe instead of having to use the old antiquated 4 part paper pads. As posted previously, there is a pilot...
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09-25-2008
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During the hurricane evacuation process, each headed different directions, but the doctor’s Blackberry notified him that he was need by a patient, and being both were in network and with electronic medical records, he was able to fill a prescription for her from a distance via e-prescribing as well as...
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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 medical equipment, an audit process that one...
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07-11-2008
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They now have 70 subscribers, one of the new subscribers was me this morning. At least they are getting there even though they have had an account since September 6th of last year. This is amazing that the the Channel exists out there, and yet very few are tuned in. I have done...
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The big one here is eliminating the DEA ban on e-prescribing for controlled substances. Many physicians who currently e-prescribe have complained about this being one big drawback for the entire process, and rightly so. As difficult as it has been to get new physicians to “buy in”, the DEA...
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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 and and for controlled substances, put down the...