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
Interesting article with some good background information about drugs that are close to or are related to the "street drugs" as we know them. There are definitely a number of researchers who want to delve into this further, but with bad raps and being illegal in their "street drug"...
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on 09-11-2008
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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
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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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...