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NewsPhysicians get partial reprieve on CMS e-prescribing penalties
Doctors who failed to do a minimum amount of electronic prescribing in the first half of 2011 will lose 1 percent of their Medicare reimbursement in 2012 if they do not qualify for an exemption. Read more...
AHRQ survey: Practices continue to struggle with HIE
If the early results of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality survey are a reliable indicator, physician practices are continuing to struggle with health information exchange. In the Read more...
Navy implementing world's largest telepharmacy system
The U.S. Navy is in the midst of what's billed as the largest telepharmacy implementation in history to help ease a shortage of pharmacists throughout the service. With technology from Mission, Read more...
AHRQ to look at state of e-prescribing
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality wants to know just how many medical practices and pharmacies have implemented functional e-prescribing systems--and what factors help or hurt adoption. Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: E-prescribing way up at Walgreen pharmacies
Here's a data point suggesting that e-prescribing has legs: Walgreen pharmacies apparently filled 3.1 billion electronic prescriptions in March, up a whopping 211 percent from the same month last Read more...
MDs get 5.1 percent bump for Medicare for e-prescribing
Over the next several months, CMS is phasing in some new incentives for provider IT use which, taken collectively, could potentially result in a nice little boost to their income. After much Read more...
CMS offers e-prescribing guide
This week, CMS issued its own guide to e-prescribing, including one section addressed to office-based clinicians new to e-prescribing and the other helping office-based clinicians who already Read more...
| Press ReleasesArmada Health Care and Definitive Homecare Solutions Announce Alliance for Specialty Pharmacy Software and ServicesArmada service offerings to be integrated in Definitive Homecare's CPR+ specialty pharmacy softwareCOLUMBUS, Ohio and FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Armada Health Care, LLC Read more >> MedInformatix Earns Surescripts® Prescription Routing CertificationPrescriber software connected through Relay Health and NewCrop Integrates Physicians with Pharmacies throughout the CountryLOS ANGELES, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MedInformatix, a leading provider Read more >> McKesson Declares Quarterly Dividend October 28, 2011SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Board of Directors of McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK) at its meeting today declared a regular dividend of twenty cents per share on Common Stock, payable on Read more >> MedicalMine, Inc. Completes Surescripts® Certification. ChARM/EHR Now Connects Physicians with Pharmacies Across the Country forPLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --- MedicalMine, Inc., a health care software company, announced today that it has completed certification with Surescripts, the nation's largest Read more >> SUPERVALU Pharmacies® Are First Nationwide Chain Approved to Accept E-Prescriptions for Controlled SubstancesCompany meets stringent requirements to accept e-prescriptions EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SUPERVALU Pharmacies are the first chain in the United States to meet stringent regulatory Read more >> |
