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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire Announces Unique Enhancement to its ePrescribing Program
Date:5/7/2008

Innovative technology will enable physicians to have secure access to online patient medical records and claims information from their mobile

telephones

MANCHESTER, N.H., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- New Hampshire physicians will now have "real time" access to medical records and medical histories for their Anthem patients, virtually anywhere they can receive an internet signal, thanks to an innovative program from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire.

"Now all licensed New Hampshire practitioners who are part of our ePrescribing program are also able to access both medical records and claims data on Anthem members, anytime, anywhere by using their web-enabled cell phone," said Richard Lafleur, M.D., medical director, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire, who added that participants could also access the new program from their office or home computer.

Last October, in an effort to improve patient safety, control costs, and reduce medication errors, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire and the NH Citizens Health Initiative, created by Gov. John Lynch, launched a state-wide electronic prescribing, or ePrescribing, program for every physician office in the Granite State to use for all of their patients, regardless of health plan. ePrescribing alerts physicians to potential dangerous drug interactions and enables licensed practitioners to generate a prescription electronically and then transmit it to a pharmacy.

The addition of the new technology -- known as Member Medical History (MMH) -- further enhances the ePrescribing tool by delivering an unprecedented amount of clinical information to the physician wherever he or she may be. Now the doctor looking to generate an electronic prescription is able to quickly access their Anthem patient's medical history, getting valuable information on medical conditions and the patient's most recent care, test results, or diagno
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