If not utilizing edgeMED’s electronic health records solutions, you can still 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 given 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.

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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.

Health officials are backing paperless prescriptions, as the government will boost Medicare payments to Eligible Professionals who go electronic. For 2011, Eligible Professionals who successfully send at least 10 prescriptions electronically by June 30, 2011 to a pharmacy rather than writing them out on paper and handing them to the patient may receive a bonus payment of 1 percent of their overall Medicare reimbursement based upon the utilization of a certain "G" code. On the contrary, Eligible Professionals who are not successful ePrescribers, based on claims submitted between January 1, 2011 and June 30, 2011, may be subject to a “payment adjustment” (read payment cut) in their Medicare Part B Physician Fee Schedule for covered professional services in 2012. Specifically, those that do not ePrescribe as a part of 10 Medicare patient encounters by June 30, 2011 will only receive 99% of their Medicare payment for all encounters in 2012. Furthermore, those that do not ePrescribe as a part of 25 encounters by December 31, 2011, will only receive 98.5% of their Medicare payments for all encounters in 2013 and only 98% of their Medicare payments for encounters during 2014 and going forward. Some exceptions will be allowed for hardship cases.

Learn more about how edgeMED’s edge-Rx can streamline the workflow of your physician practice. Contact us today to get more information.