Search results for "Electronic Prescribing"
Fee schedule updates, penalties explained for 2012
a system with functionalities identified in the electronic prescribing measure specifications, or Certified EHR Technology as defined at 42 CFR 495.4 and 45 CFR 170.102.”. ... For the electronic prescribing provision of the Physician Quality Reporting
January 2012
Incentive programs yield mixed results for expectant internists
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides incentive payments to physicians and some nonphysician providers who successfully participate in its Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), in electronic prescribing ... 13,864 (18%) of
July 2011
QD: News Every Day--Overestimating cardiovascular risk
Approximately one in three office-based U.S. doctors are now using e-prescriptions, a steady increase from 2009 and 2008, according to new data released today by electronic prescribing network
March 2021
QD: News Every Day--7% of physicians adopted video chat with patients
The study captures a snapshot of technology, including mobile platforms, electronic health records, electronic prescribing and interaction with patients, pharmaceutical and health care market research company Manhattan Research said in a ... Physicians
March 2021
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT As always, the Medicare program hassome changes ...
electronic prescribing (eRx) system thatincludes certified EHR technology as fol-lows: “… A qualified electronic prescribingsystem, which we further propose to defineas either a system with functionalities iden-tified in the electronic
December 2011
QD: News Every Day--"meaningful use" defined
QD: News Every Day--"meaningful use" defined. CMS issued its much anticipated final rule today on "meaningful use" of electronic health records, laying out what physicians need to do to qualify ... Clinicians must also use electronic prescribing for 40%
March 2021
E-prescribing incentives change to penalties on June 30
Since 2009, CMS has been offering an incentive for eligible professionals to implement and use electronic prescribing to improve the quality, efficiency and safety of health care delivered to beneficiaries. ... The eligible professional practices in an
February 2011
PQRI overhaul finds faults and inputs fixes for 2009
While it may not seem like a lot of money, it can be combined with an additional 2% incentive payment for electronic prescribing. ... Many doctors that I'm talking to are taking a second look at PQRI and electronic prescribing because they don't want to
May 2009
E-prescribing order hits unprepared internists
Electronic Prescribing for the Medical Practice: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask by Patricia L. ... Go here click on “HIMSS Store” and then “Electronic Prescribing.”. Electronic Health Records: Just around the Corner?
September 2008
Editor's Note: Small-practice series highlights day-to-day struggles
Some problems, however, were more intractable. Go to the story to find out how these practices dealt with the shift to electronic medical records (some stuck with paper), pressures to switch ... to electronic prescribing and other challenges.
June 2008