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Category Archives: e-Prescribing
Avoid CMS e-Prescribing Penalties
As a Medicare provider, you may be subject to federal penalties if you don’t send and report a certain number of e-prescriptions. You need to send in 10 G-codes by June 30th in order to avoid a 1.5% Medicare deduction in 2013. You may have heard of the CMS Medicare e-Rx Incentive Program designed to encourage adoption of e-prescribing. Though you cannot qualify for both Meaningful Use and the separate eRx program, all Medicare providers (subject to exceptions below) are… read more >
Posted in e-Prescribing, Meaningful EMR Use
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Drug Safety Is Aided by EHR Use
One of the promises of increased utilization of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by practicing physicians is that prescribing of drugs is a safer process. As the uptake of EHRs increases – not only in hospital settings, but also in smaller community offices and clinics – having electronic prescribing becomes more commonplace. We have seen a progression in sophistication of the kinds of ways that EHRs can assist prescribers. At first, it was simply picking medications from pick-lists of approved medicines…. read more >
No. 1 eRx Gets Better!
You asked and we listened! Our No. 1-rated free e-prescribing system is now even better. We’ve taken the entire workflow from 6 screens down to 2, speeding up entering a prescription, identifying interaction alerts and sending to one of over 70,000 pharmacies. Our team worked hard to fit all the required elements into a streamlined, efficient workflow just in time for the holidays. Look for the following eRx features inside your EHR account: Search for a medication and see a… read more >
Posted in Certified EMR, e-Prescribing, Medical Charting, Uncategorized
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Become an EHR Pro with Pratice Fusion
Have you ever gotten stuck putting together that IKEA desk you just bought and realized that somewhere in between putting on the legs and securing the top you’ve gone wrong? Last time you checked the desk was not supposed to tilt 30 degrees. And these directions just show you a stick figure calling IKEA when you get stuck. Don’t you wish someone was there with you, helping you build the desk? With Practice Fusion, we help you build your EHR… read more >
Posted in e-Prescribing, EHR Features, Free EMR, Meaningful EMR Use, Web-based EMR
Tagged EHR, EHR adoption, Meaningful Use
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CMS Postpones the eRx Penalty Exemption Date to November 8th
The deadline for claiming an exemption from penalties from the e-Rx (MIPPA) federal program has been extended from November 1st to November 8th. As part of the effort to reconcile different federal programs, with different criteria and different specific structures implementing them – the stand-alone electronic prescribing program (MIPPA) enacted in 2008, and the EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use) enacted in 2009 and which includes eRx as one of its criteria – the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)… read more >
