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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on 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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on 10-23-2008
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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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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
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...
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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on 07-11-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, EHR, Physicians, Pharma, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, DEA