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www.HealthcareITNews.com CliniCal ToolkiT October 2007 ■ Healthcare IT News 57 SureScripts forms e-prescribing advisory panel By DIaNa MaNos, Senior Editor SureScripts announced today that it will launch an advisory council to help increase physicians’ use of electronic prescribing. According to Rob Cronin, senior director of corporate communications, 10 executives will participate in the council, representing vendors of third-party electronic prescribing and electronic health record software. Rick Ratliff, chief operating officer of SureScripts, said the council will work to identify obstacles physicians and pharmacists face in adopting electronic prescribing and these efforts will in turn benefit patients. “Even the most compelling of new technologies will invariably face obstacles that slow adoption – and this has never been more true than in healthcare,” Ratliff said. The council will provide insight on such issues as technology design, education and interoperability, known to deter physicians from adopting e-prescribing and impacting their level of satisfaction once they start, Cronin said. Vendors participating in the council will work to educate their ALEXANDRIA, VA – some 150,000 collective customers already using electronic medical record or e-prescribing software who still use faxes to transmit prescription requests. “Most of these physicians are unaware that their computer is only sending faxes to pharmacies,” Cronin said. Members of the council are experts in the design and application of information technology used by physicians and practice staff, Cronin said. A study released this July by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association said physicians that use e-prescribing “dramatically improve” savings and quality of care, yet currently fewer than one in ten physicians actually use eprescribing. Also according to PCMA, e-prescribing could save the federal government $26 billion and could prevent 1.9 million pre- scription errors over 10 years. The council will consist of: ■ David Pearah, vice president of product management and operations, Allscripts; ■ Cameron Deemer, president, DrFirst; ■ Raj Dharampuriya, chief medical officer, eClinicalWorks; ■ Chuck Frederick, vice president of medical informatics, eMDs; ■ Edward Bayliss, vice president, MedPlus; ■ Ken Tarkoff, vice president, RelayHealth; ■ Steven Saitsky, vice president, NextGen; ■ Mark Wiggins, COO, RxNT; ■ Sumit Nagpal, president, Wellogic; and ■ Curtiss Hurst, partner services manager, Zix. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: advisory 1007 ● “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” -Ben Franklin Revolutionize your Department! Knowledge is power, and running an HIM department requires knowledge. Stop by SDS Booth #400 for four informative educational sessions that will empower you with the knowledge you need to revolutionize the way you govern: Hybrid Document Environments Release-of-Information Electronic Document Management Process Improvements paperless Continued from page 56 all you have to do is go to the copier and enter your user name and password,” Brikiatis said. “Then you place the document into the feeder and it appears on the display panel. Hit ‘next’ and it sends the document to the system you’re looking for.” Bieri concedes that healthcare organizations found the initial high cost of document imaging applications to be a deterrent, but says the price has since come down to an affordable level. As a result, he said more healthcare organizations are embracing document imaging technology and that, in turn, vendors are focusing on creating systems specifically for that market. “It includes features such as complete refinement of forms recognition and the ability to capture data automatically off standardized health forms for placement into storage or adjudication,” Bieri said. New generations of equipment also have increased capabilities, such as advanced indexing, McQuiston said. “The key is storage and retrieval – the way documents are brought in and indexed so you can find them later,” he said. “This is the piece with the most potential for manual intervention. We continue to evolve our tools to leverage HL7, bar coding and document classification to reduce costs in scanning while driving up performance.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: paperless 1007 Be sure to pick up our stress relief giveaways while you’re there! For more information, please visit our website at www.sdshealth.com, call 800.737.2585, or email us at marketing@sdshealth.com. ● e ● Connect: sds 1007 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7870 http://www.sdshealth.com http://www.sdshealth.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7869 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=7925

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