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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing
The debate over Medicare paying for this procedures has been up in the air for years, but now I believe the cost as well as convenience issue is starting to come together. CT Scanners have had this service available for years and it certainly is much easier for the patient, hands down. There is...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Colonoscopy, Virtual Colonoscopy, Cancer, CT Scan, Advanced Body Scan
Cerner president speaks out about the insurance business, "they need to be redefined". Amgen CEO and President Kevin Sharer called for a better structured FDA . Overall the summary statement says the same thing I have brought up time and time again, who's going to to...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, health insurance, FDA, Cerner, Amgen, Fixiing Healthcare
This bring up a very good point with all the recent budget cuts, why does it take Medicare so long to realize the savings? Camptosar is not on the $4.00 generic listings, as all generics do not make the list, but worth checking. One resource I used to find out more about the drug was the...
Recently with all the discussion on catheters and hospital acquired infections, I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Thomas Cherry from Cook Medical to find out a little bit more on the topic. As mentioned in the interview, CMS is imposing some new rules starting in October that pretty...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Cook Medical, Medicaid, CMS, HAI, Catheters, hospital acquired infection, imprenated catheters, CRBSI
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 have electronic records that integrate this service...
The Health Blog at the Wall Street Journal picks up on some influential health bloggers here and investigates nice credit to the bloggers ( KevinMD and Dr. Secretwave101 ) too! This somewhat shows how complicated the billing process is today for healthcare. There are thousands of codes used...