MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'electronic prescribing'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:31 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4478158&cid=t_189977_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F4zPu4D1nOpc%2F A behind-the-scenes battle is brewing in nearly a dozen states where legislation has been introduced to more closely regulate e-prescribing. And a trade group for pharmacy benefit managers claims that brand-name drugmakers are trying to use the proposals to restrict access to lower-cost generics. The bills would, essentially, prohibit docs from seeing messages from third-party information providers as they write an e-prescription. In doing so, info about other prescribing options, including drug interactions, would not be displayed on screens. “By removing the third party message, the legislation doesn’t allow the technology to get to the doctor,” a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association tells us. Legislation is pending in 11 states, including Indiana, K... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4478158 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:36:47 +0100 4478158 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3862174&cid=t_189977_137_f&fid=39091&url=http%3A%2F%2Falzheimmers.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F08%2Felectronic-prescribing.html hmmmm call me old fashioned, call me a heretic. But will this really improve care? If I was one of those slick high tech cool medical bloggers, I would tell you how wonderful it is and how the art and the science of medicine will be so greatly advanced and how much this is going to help patients. Lots of people would read and retweet, the news media loves it and it will help patients.Now lets talk about the realities nobody wants to blog about except me it seems.First of all, how will it help patients. LESS ERRORS. This is good. How so? Handwriting errors, handwriting errors HANDWRITING ERRORS. Fantastic. Hmm is that an N or an H? I can't read the handwriting. EXCELLENT. No more of that ever. IT will probably save a few lives every year.Think about it there are only so many ways for a pres... Caregiver Survival: I Hate Alzheimers blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3862174 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:57:00 +0100 3862174 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3346722&cid=t_189977_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FKha28oDlsaA%2F The number of physicians using e-prescribing tools to prescribe meds and access a patient’s drug benefit info and prescription histories is growing significantly, according to a report by Surescripts, which operates an e-prescribing network. A few findings: electronic requests for prescription benefit info grew from 79 million in 2008 to 303 million in 2009; prescription histories delivered to prescribers grew from over 16 million in 2008 to 81 million in 2009, and prescriptions routed electronically grew from 68 million in 2008 to 191 million in 2009. Also, the number of prescribers routing scrips electronically reached 156,000 at the end of 2009, up from 74,000 at the end of 2008 – representing about 25 percent of all office-based prescribers(see executive summary). In discussi... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3346722 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:46:24 +0100 3346722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2992671&cid=t_189977_88_f&fid=38153&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ozemedicine.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D832 This report should be sending waves of concerns to both hospital and government administrators who are looking to roll out such systems. Perhaps the vendors need to talk more with clinicians and find out how we work and what we need to be more efficient, not less efficient. The same issue has occurred with Victoria’s PMI system which is less efficient for clerical staff than the previous DOS-based system. Why are the software vendors ignoring the needs of users? To help them out, I have just posted screen shots of my version of an Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) which is designed from a clinician’s point of view and places patient safety and clinical efficiency as it’s prime priorities – see here for the screen shots, and note guys all the speed butto... Oz E Medicine - emergency medicine in Australia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2992671 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:32:49 +0100 2992671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2602073&cid=t_189977_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FDBSqcvQjMyA%2F I came across this blog post which had the actual definition of meaningful use as listed in the HITECH act itself. Check it out: ‘(2) MEANINGFUL EHR USER.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of paragraph (1), an eligible professional shall be treated as a meaningful EHR user for an EHR reporting period for a payment year (or, for purposes of subsection (a)(7), for an EHR reporting period under such subsection for a year) if each of the following requirements is met: ‘‘(i) MEANINGFUL USE OF CERTIFIED EHR TECHNOLOGY.—The eligible professional demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary, in accordance with subparagraph (C)(i), that during such period the profes- sional is using certified EHR technology in a meaning- ful manner, which shall include the use of electronic presc... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2602073 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:08:39 +0100 2602073 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2027782&cid=t_189977_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F479469702%2F Doctors who prescribe medicines electronically may be more likely to choose lower-cost drugs, saving money for patients and insurers, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. But only about 6 percent of US doctors are using “e-prescribing,” even though they may improve efficiency and reduce dispensing errors at pharmacies. The study of 17.4 million prescriptions filled by more than 1.5 million patients of nearly 1,200 Massachusetts physicians found that use of the least expensive drugs - classified as “tier 1″ for the study, such as those available generically - increased by 3.3 percent when e-prescribing was used. Use of more expensive “tier 2″ preferred brand-name drugs decreased by 1.9 percent, and use of “tier 3″ non-pre... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2027782 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:08:31 +0100 2027782 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1561300&cid=t_189977_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F323984056%2F The deal is expected to accelerate the move toward paperless prescribing, which has so far been embraced by only a fraction of physicians. That’s because one of the networks is operated by big pharmacy benefits managers - Medco Health, CVS Caremark and Express Scripts - and the other by drugstore chains such as Walgreen, Rite Aid and Wal-Mart Stores. Right now, about 35,000, or less than 10 percent of docs, prescribe drugs electronically, and roughly 25 million of the 4 billion prescriptions dispensed annually were sent electronically. The merged network believes the number of e-prescriptions could rise to more than 100 million this year, according to Rick Ratliff, acting ceo of SureScripts, one of the two networks. Health insurers, business groups and the federal government have be... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1561300 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:44:05 +0100 1561300