October 8th, 2008
The e-Health Initiative released its A Clinician’s Guide to Electronic Prescribing at a Boston e-prescribing conference sponsored by the CMS.
The guide, clearly aimed at...
October 7th, 2008
With the first phase of Medicare’s mandate for e-prescribing rolling out in January, healthcare IT leaders, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael...
September 23rd, 2008
As members of Congress weigh legislation to create a nationwide system of electronic health records, states are poised to act quickly through coordinated efforts...
August 16th, 2008
Imagine a virtual health clinic: Your lung doctor and heart specialist can pull up your online medical profile and chat, via instant messenger, about...
August 13th, 2008
- In response to Joseph Conn’s two-part series (Access parts one and two) on policies regarding diagnosis on electronic prescriptions:
It is true that the...
July 29th, 2008
The move to get doctors to file prescriptions electronically is gathering steam and may get a further boost from new Medicare rules that give...
December 1st, 2007
They dominated the headlines and made bold announcements that created huge impacts in the healthcare industry and across America.
Marquee names topped the results in...
February 19th, 2007
When a coalition of technology companies, insurers and health care providers launched a $100 million project last month to provide free electronic prescribing software...
August 12th, 2005
President Bush signed into law a bill to create electronic monitoring programs to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs in all 50 states.
The new...
