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 into the records of one’s medications with...
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on 09-22-2008
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
I was speaking with a family practice physician this week on the east coast, and this is exactly what was said to me. We were discussing some technology items as it relates to health care and about how things are evolving. This physician has relied on both cash and PPO patients for quite...
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on 09-19-2008
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From another standpoint...more paper to throw away...right now I have a garbage can right next to my mail box to get rid of all the other crap that I get...so this would just add more to the task...and kill of a few more trees...back to the other side of the coin, it is a law to fight marketing...and...
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on 05-28-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, privacy, Drug Information, Marketing, Scripts, Pharmacies, Information Overload, Patient