Latest Electronic prescribing Stories
OmniMD's electronic health record (EHR) has earned the Surescripts White Coat of Quality distinction for technology vendors for 2012, which recognizes upholding the highest standards of clinical quality in e-prescribing. Tarrytown, NY (PRWEB) January 05, 2013 OmniMD™, a division of Integrated Systems Management Inc., announced that its OmniMD electronic health record (EHR) has earned the Surescripts® White Coat of Quality distinction for technology vendors for 2012. “Earning...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grey Eye Care, one of the few ophthalmology practices in Mesa County participating in a federal initiative that promotes use of certified technology to improve quality of patient care, is anticipating a repeat performance in 2013 of this year's success using MedInformatix Electronic Health Records (EHR) V7.5. In August 2012, the practice received incentive bonuses from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as outlined in...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Practice Fusion, the largest doctor-patient community in the nation, has once more been recognized as the No. 1 EMR for e-prescribing and Meaningful Use achievement in the 2013 State of the e-Prescribing Industry report. The report, published today, is based on a survey of more than 250,000 e-Health Technology users conducted by Brown-Wilson's Black Book Rankings. This is the second year in a row that Practice Fusion has received No. 1...
Over fifteen thousand e-Prescribing users identified an elite group of high satisfaction vendors for both standalone systems and EHR-based modules across eighteen probing key performance indicators from a field of five hundred qualified healthcare software firms. As medical providers still scramble to select and implement systems to avoid financial penalties, experienced users identify the firms that are delivering on implementation success, meaningful use achievement, clinical...
Questions for Policymakers, Assurances for Patients /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Neighborhood pharmacies, a primary outpatient source of compounded drugs in communities across America, must find new ways to demonstrate that they ascribe to the nation's most rigorous safety protocols regarding compounding, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) said today. PCMA has four questions that policymakers can ask to further explore these issues. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2012 The...
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MPR is pleased to announce the introduction of MPRxOnline, a collection of services and resources to support healthcare practitioners in their busy practice. Through MPR's website, www.eMPR.com, healthcare professionals are now able to e-Prescribe via a Surescripts® certified platform, anytime, anywhere, and at no cost by accessing MPRxOnline on their computer or mobile device. In addition to free e-Prescribing capabilities, MPRxOnline...
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. and HOUSTON, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Medical Letter announces a new strategic partnership with NewCrop, LLC to incorporate The Medical Letter's objective drug information into NewCrop's leading electronic prescribing platform. "The Medical Letter content has long been recognized as quality drug information, free of industry bias. Since 1959, it has been providing physicians and other healthcare professionals with objective drug information to...
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Data Management, Inc. (FDM), a provider of medical billing and practice management services to physician practice groups, is facilitating federal Meaningful Use reimbursement bonuses for filing electronic prescriptions by utilizing the E-Prescribing module of MedInformatix claims processing software. Six ophthalmologists from different practice groups received Meaningful Use bonuses in Medicare and Medicaid...
Greater use of PBM Tools Will Also Save the Federal Government More than $212 Million WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Andrew Cuomo's decision to reform New York's Medicaid pharmacy program using proven pharmacy benefit management (PBM) tools is projected to save the state $425 million in 2012, according to a new study from Special Needs Consulting Services (SNCS) released today by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA). New York is one of...
Drugstore Lobby Bill Prohibits Mail-Service Pharmacies from Charging Less WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pending legislation (PA HB 511/SB 201) that would prohibit mail-service pharmacies from charging less than drugstores would increase health care costs for Pennsylvania employers and consumers by more than $570 million over the next ten years, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) said today. The Pennsylvania Employee Benefit Trust Fund also...
