News Updates
-Encouraging Developments for Broader Use of E-Prescribing
-Pressure Building on DEA to Allow E-Prescribing of Controlled Substances
-NEPSI Connecting Patients and Providers

Sponsor Update
-NaviMedix Offers Free Allscripts Electronic Prescribing to 250,000 U.S. Physicians and Their Staff

Prescriber Spotlight
-Dr. John Anthony, Dermatology, Inc

Product Update
-Coming Soon... Version 11.5

E-Prescribing Benefits
-Benefit of E-Prescribing to Physicians

Tips & Tricks
-Add your colleagues, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other staff members to eRx NOW

Share Your Story
We want to hear about your experience with e-prescribing technology: how it has changed your practice, impacted a patient, made your life easier. Or share one of your tips or tricks with using the software. Click here to share your story.

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Tune in to the “Small Business Channel” on StudioDell to hear Dr. Kelly, from Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, talk about the benefits his practice has seen from electronic prescribing with eRx NOW. StudioDell is where Dell shares its expertise on emerging technologies and uses interactive tools to communicate directly with consumers, small business owners and IT professionals.







“The pharmacists don't yell at me any more.”

-Dr. Beth Walters, Regent Mental Health Group, Madison, WI

Look for NEPSI advertising campaigns in Medical Economics, Modern Healthcare and American Medical News

Tips & Tricks
Add your colleagues, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other staff members to eRx NOW. Click here to learn how…

Receive refill requests directly from pharmacies within eRx NOW. With the holidays around the corner, make sure to check the “Tasks” tab within eRx NOW to process pending pharmacy refills for your patients.

News Updates
Encouraging Developments for Broader Use of E-Prescribing
Pressure is growing on CMS to mandate the use of e-prescribing by any doctors who participate in Medicare. Recently legislation was introduced in the Senate to mandate electronic prescribing by 2011. It would include financial incentives as well as penalties for lack of compliance physicians during the transition. The House will introduce similar legislation soon. HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt has thrown his support behind these efforts as well.

Click here to read article in The Washington Post
Click here to read the story in Government Health IT

Pressure Building on DEA to Allow E-Prescribing of Controlled Substances
On December 4, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to discuss the need for electronic prescribing of controlled substances. Both Senators and private sectors representatives urged the Drug Enforcement Administration to reverse its ban on electronic prescribing of controlled substances. Panel members were: Joseph Rannazzisi, Deputy Assistant Administrator, DEA Office of Diversion Control, Tony Trenkle, CMS’ Office of e-Health Standards and Services, Laura Adams, President and CEO, Rhode Island Quality Institute, Kevin Hutchinson, CEO of SureScripts, David Miller, Chief Security Officer, Covisint and Mike Podgurski, R.Ph., Vice President, Pharmacy Services, Rite Aid Corporation. The DEA now has 60 days to respond with a draft plan.

Read the e-prescribing report here
Read the SureScripts news release and e-prescribing report here
Read the hearing summary here

NEPSI Connecting Patients and Providers
NEPSI and Allscripts are front and center in the drive to connect patients and providers and improve how healthcare is delivered. At two conferences held in early December, HealthIT Conversations hosted by Wal*Mart and Connecting Americans to their Healthcare Executive Symposium sponsored by the Markle Foundation, we educated the audience about the possibilities of electronic health and the key benefits/features these solutions offer.

Sponsor Updates
NaviMedix Offers Free Allscripts Electronic Prescribing to 250,000 U.S. Physicians and Their Staff

By Michael L. Hodgkins, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Medical Officer, NaviMedix

Last summer, Allscripts and NaviMedix, the leader and innovator in automating healthcare provider communications, announced that NaviMedix had joined the NEPSI coalition and that we would provide access to the free eRx NOW^TM by Allscripts ePrescribing solution to NaviMedix’s nationwide network of more than 250,000 physicians and their office staff. eRx NOW will be available at no cost to users of NaviNet®, NaviMedix’s free web-based provider communications solution. NaviNet offers secure, real-time access to plan, patient and provider information, enabling medical offices to interact with multiple health plans and other service providers through one website.

NaviMedix joined the NEPSI coalition to support increased adoption of electronic prescribing by giving healthcare providers across the country an easy and convenient way to access eRx NOW. It is another way in which we are delivering added value to the 250,000 providers in our network and the health plans and partners who sponsor NaviNet.

Click here to read the entire article

Product Update
Coming Soon … Version 11.5
Our latest release is the most user-friendly ever. We’ve listened to client feedback and packed Version 11.5 with the features you’ve been asking for. Here is a sneak preview of the benefits:

• ability to create multiple scripts for a patient - change/edit patient pharmacy
• pharmacy rating based on their success of receiving scripts - pharmacy search improved
• ability to print patient current meds while reviewing patient history
• complete med history while doing renewals from patient history
• and much more