e-Prescribing: A prescription for adoption"
April 21, 2010 | 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. CST
e-Prescribing is proven to improve patient safety, reduce medication costs, and decrease errors. With the onset of the HITECH Act and “meaningful use” incentives tied to electronic medication management. This webinar will help facilities:
- Select systems
- Evaluate workflow
- Manage complex relationships
- Avoid traditional pitfalls
Participants learned more about:
- MIPAA, the HITECH Act, and related facts surrounding incentives, penalties, timelines and qualified system definitions
- Best practices to ensure successful change management for all systems, workflows, and relationships
- What to consider when evaluating an e-Prescribing solution
- Fully-integrated EMR with e-Prescribing vs. standalone module
- Functionality and capability must-haves
- Interoperability with other systems and locations
- Device integration
- Strategies to coordinate relationships between practitioners, patients, pharmacists and health plans
- Rules surrounding fax-based prescriptions and ways to approach the dual workflows necessary to prescribe controlled substances
- Ways to mitigate obstacles
All registered attendees received a comprehensive set of adoption guides, checklists, and related resources.