Edge Health Solutions Selects Allscripts ePrescribe for Mac OS X Medical and Denta...( the MedicareImprovements for Patients a...),Health

Date:12/9/2008

, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 authorized the Medicare ePrescribing Incentive Program beginning in January 2009. The program will pay physicians who prescribe medications electronically up to 2 percent of their annual Medicare billings, while physicians who fail to use the technology may be penalized an equal amount after 2012.

"Our partnership with Edge will ensure that physicians are able to realize all the benefits of electronically prescribing medications, no matter which technology platform or operating system they use," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "Electronic prescription technology is an easy point of entry for the nearly three-quarters of US physicians who have yet to implement a full electronic health record. We already have Allscripts ePrescribe clients using Apple products in their practices, including the iPhone, to send their electronic prescriptions safely and securely. Our new partnership with Edge permits these clients and others who prefer Mac to seamlessly migrate their patient's demographic data into Allscripts ePrescribe and begin writing electronic prescriptions in as little as ten minutes."

Allscripts ePrescribe replaces paper prescriptions with web-based technology that provides automatic safety checks and helps to avoid dangerous medication errors attributed to illegible handwriting. Allscripts ePrescribe downloads in minutes and works on virtually any web-enabled device. By enabling physicians to send electronic prescriptions to a patient's preferred pharmacy, the solution saves time and adds efficiency to the process for patients and pharmacists.

Allscripts ePrescribe is offered at no charge to every physician in America via the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative(TM) (http://www.nationaleRx.com), of which Allscripts is the founder and national
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