• New National Drug Safety Program Implemented in Sweden

  Article by nicolel

  January 8, 2010

  Apoteket, Sweden's largest pharmacy chain, and Medco Health Solutions, Inc. recently announced the development of Elektroniskt ExpeditionsStod (EES), one of the first national centralized drug utilization review (DUR) programs outside of the United States. This program is intended to improve prescription safety by reducing ...

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• The E-prescribing Boom

  Article by nicolel

  November 12, 2009

  E-prescribing is one important component of EHRs. Retail pharmacies are realizing the potential for e-prescribing to increase their safety and productivity, such as Walgreens. The national pharmacy chain's electronic prescriptions recently reached 4 million in October 2009, a 185-percent increase from the year prior. It ...

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• Incentives for EHR Adoption: Pay Now or Pay Later

  Article by nicolel

  November 9, 2009

  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has announced that starting January 2010, healthcare providers will have the option to use electronic health record systems to report Medicare quality and electronic prescribing measures to CMS in some of its pay-for-performance programs. The revisions are ...

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• Incentive Payments for E-prescribing

  Article by EHR Industry Analyst

  November 3, 2009

  In its attempts to widely disperse and advocate the use of electronic prescribing (or more popularly known as e-prescribing), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun providing incentive payments of up to 2 percent to eligible physicians and other health care providers using ...

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