E-prescribe Your Way To Success

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Even if you are a smart techie, you'll need a little bit of help from your friends when it comes to programming your TIVO or helping you rejigger your privacy settings on Facebook.


And this is something which takes some physician practices away from e-prescribing, in spite of the easy two-percent e-prescribe bonus available to them in the new year.


As far as the training goes, your physician practice peers may not be able to teach you on whether their e-script implementation went smoothly as many of them have not gone ahead with it.


E-prescribing numbers:

According to Barbara Cobuzzi, president of CRN Healthcare Solutions, only 12 percent of office-based prescribers presently use e-prescribing.


So how would you train your staff on how to use e-prescribing?


The best way to do it would be to gather everyone together. Substantiating this, Melanie Scott, CPC, PCS, coder with Five Valleys Urology in Missoula, ...
... Mont said, We trained our clinicians all at the same time and did not use the service that is offered by the E-prescribing System we use. According to Scott, the training was fairly easy. The office manager and Scott reviewed the system and were trained and shared what they had learned with everybody in the office.


In fact, training all clinicians at the same time is a productive use of the trainer's time. For instance, Kalra M.Westerfield, COPM, business manager with Southeast Wyoming Ear, Nose & Throat Clinic, PC, in Cheyenne, Wyo. says I'll be training all the users - physicians and medical assistants - at the same time.


Difference between success and failure:

A key step in your training process is to contact your local pharmacies and ensure that they are ready to receive your e-prescriptions.


Tip: Some practices have implemented e-prescribing without buying a new system. In fact you can do it with a standalone system; this is a great way to ease into using a partial electronic record.


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