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
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Health IT, Electronic Medical Records, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-Prescriptions, DEA, AMA, medicaitons, American Hospital Association
Medical Quack on Reuters. Now this is a sad state of affairs to be the prudent consumer, and yet you are potentially taking money out of your doctor's pocket by doing so when it comes to pay for performance for them, so what's up with this when purchasing $4.00 Generic Drugs. BD...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, health insurance, Physicians, Pharma, HMO, Generic Drugs, Pay for Performance, Patients
The hospital has a pilot program ongoing, so this is a good resource to check and see how things are evolving. This has been a real tough spot with providers "that like e-prescribing" and dislike the idea of pulling out the paper pad for these types of prescriptions, which you can't...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Physicians, Controlled substances, e-Prescriptions, DEA, Medications
The MediGo centers opening at three Navarro pharmacies in Miami-Dade County are affiliated with Mercy Hospital, and doctors will be seeing patients in the stores. This is a change where actual doctors associated with the hospital will be on duty. An average visit is $55.00 and this is another...
The most amazing part of this article is the cost compared to OxyContin, that was an eye opener for me, not being acquainted with pain killing medications. Xanax and Valium do not mix here either and we all remember the Anna Nicole Smith death, which probably accounted for bring methadone to the...
Some things in sales don't change no matter what field you are in and Pharma is no different, sales are made by building relationships, in other words, people do business with people they like, so the peer articles maybe could be just a little off target. I spent over 20 years in outside sales...