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...
Posted to
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
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-11-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, EHR, Physicians, Pharma, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, DEA
There are 60 pages of the report to read and they are accepting comments . Amazing it has taken this long for this to work it’s way to the forefront. This has been a rub even for those physicians who have embraced e-Prescribing . If you are not set up yet, there’s a permanent link...
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...