Tuesday, May 8, 2012
MIPPA ePrescribing Incentives: Two Steps Forward and Five Backward
The federal government just released results of the ePrescribing incentives available under the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA). As with all such initiatives, there’s good news and bad news. Continue reading →
Written by: Kurt Andrews, PhD on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Thursday, May 3, 2012
Use of RxNorm: Out of Sync for Meaningful Use and ePrescribing
There’s always a surprise or two buried in the Meaningful Use (MU) requirements, and the proposal for Stage 2 has this one: the MU2 2014 EHR Certification criteria, “RxNorm February 6 2012 Release” is proposed as the required standard for reporting medications in the Care Summary Record at section 170.207(h). Continue reading →
Written by: Mihir H. Patel, PharmD on Thursday, May 3, 2012. Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Pharmacies Lead the Way in Exchanging Patient Data
The pharmacy industry is leading the charge to make the electronic exchange of clinical data a reality, with an eye toward leveraging the well-developed infrastructure originally created for ePrescribing.
In an announcement made last week, Walgreens will begin to electronically… Continue Reading
Written by: Mihir H. Patel, PharmD on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Monday, February 6, 2012
New White Paper Analyzes Landscape for Prior Authorization for Medications
The increased use of prior authorization (PA) for medications is one of the trends for 2012 that Point of Care Partners (POCP) will be tracking. We also strongly believe that savvy stakeholders should be preparing to embrace electronic prior authorization (ePA) for medications, a standardized electronic process in which real-time decisions on PA requests are provided at the point of prescribing.
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Written by: Tony Schueth, MS on Monday, February 6, 2012. Monday, January 23, 2012
AMA Releases a New Set of Free Online Tutorials on ePrescribing
The American Medical Association has reaffirmed its commitment to informing the medical community on the benefits of healthcare information technology (HIT), particularly ePrescribing, in this latest set of free online tutorials. This educational module includes three topics, ePrescribing, pre-visit planning and point-of-care documentation. Continue reading →
Written by: Claire Roebuck on Monday, January 23, 2012. Thursday, January 12, 2012
ePrescribing May be Harmed by Unreliable Information
While the positive aspects of ePrescribing are numerous, flaws in two key sets of data — formulary and benefits and medication history — undermines the quality and safety benefits. To realize ePrescribing’s full potential, the industry must address these shortcomings. Continue reading →
Written by: Tony Schueth, MS on Thursday, January 12, 2012. Thursday, December 8, 2011
New Study Finds Major Challenges with ePrescription Renewals and ePrescribing at Mail-order Pharmacies
A just-published study from the Center for Studying Health System Change identifies new challenges to the ePrescribing process: eRenewals and pharmacy processing of ePrescriptions, especially for those going to mail-order pharmacies. The good news-bad news findings are that physician practices and pharmacies are generally statisfied with the electronic transmission of new prescriptions, the rewewal process was used inconsistently, there were some issues with prescriptions being transmitted electronically to mail order and pharmacy data is still being hand-entered. Continue reading →
Written by: Mihir H. Patel, PharmD on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Thursday, September 8, 2011
Fewer Physicians May Get Medicare Payments Dinged in CMS’ ePrescribing Program
CMS just published a slim final rule that modifies its ePrescribing incentive program by adding new hardship exemption categories for the 2012 ePrescribing payment adjustment. Essentially, an estimated 200,000+ physicians Medicare payments will not be reduced due to their inability… Continue Reading
Written by: Mihir H. Patel, PharmD on Thursday, September 8, 2011. Friday, August 12, 2011
Why Should Health Plans Care About Medication Reconciliation?
A few months ago, we wrote a blog on the Value of Medication Reconciliation (MedRec) to PBMs, and yet, we still continue to get questions from payer clients as to what… Continue Reading
Written by: Mihir H. Patel, PharmD on Friday, August 12, 2011. Monday, August 8, 2011
What About Those ePrescribing Penalties?
Some professionals just don’t want to change the way they do things, even if it makes sense from a business, clinical and patient quality standpoint. Federal incentives and penalties are designed to spur these laggards to step up. But physician organizations are listening to the vocal minority of its members. We hope they’re unsuccessful. Continue reading →
Written by: Tony Schueth, MS on Monday, August 8, 2011.
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