Electronic Prescribing

Electronic Prescribing

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Full connectivity with SureScripts and RxHub Formularies Real-time drug/drug and drug/allergy interaction checking Virtually eliminate pharmacy callbacks Operates on most handheld devices with mini-browsers connected to the Internet, such as Apple's iPhone, or on PC's with an Internet connection. Click here to View or Download 1-page overview on Medicare's e-Prescribing Incentive Program. Click here to View or Download Medicare's Practical Guide to the e-Prescribing Incentive Program.

Electronic Rx Prescribing
Electronically prescribe from your office with confidence and security using edge-Rx. With over 1.5 million people affected by prescription drug errors each year, prescribing with edge-Rx protects physicians and their patients by providing a secure, reliable and convenient electronic prescribing solution.

edge-Rx is SureScripts Certified and based on the award winning Rcopia system from DrFirst. This ensures accurate and timely information exchanges between your patients and their chosen pharmacy. In addition, the ability to check medications against your patient's formularies improves care plan compliance and ensures that your patient is receiving the best value. If the chosen medication is non-formulary, edge-Rx suggests alternative medications that are covered.

Real-time drug/drug and drug/allergy interaction checking at the point of care ensures that patients are prescribed the proper medications giving their known medication history. In fact, edge-Rx offers full lifetime medication histories. Furthermore, medications prescribed through edge-Rx are immediately available to pharmacists and completely legible, thus virtually eliminating pharmacy callbacks.

Boost Medicare Payments
Health officials are backing paperless prescriptions, as the government will boost Medicare payments to doctors who go electronic. Beginning January 1, 2009, physicians who successfully send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy rather than writing them out on paper and handing them to the patient may receive a bonus payment of 2 percent of their overall Medicare reimbursement based upon the utilization of certain CPT codes. According to Health and Human Services Secretary, Michael Leavitt, the widespread adoption of electronic prescribing is expected to save taxpayers as much as $156 million over the next five years and save lives.

Congress also put in place financial penalties for those physicians who decline to use electronic prescribing, dropping their Medicare reimbursements by 1 percent in 2012, 1.5 percent in 2013 and 2 percent in 2014. Some exceptions will be allowed for hardship cases.

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