Written Testimony of the American College of Physicians Regarding Standards for e-Prescribing Presented to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Subcommittee on Standards and Security May 17, 2004 The American College of Physicians (ACP), representing over 115,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students, is pleased to provide testimony on the subject of standards…
Introduction Thank you, Dr. Cohn, for the opportunity to testify before the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics’ Subcommittee on Standards and Security concerning e-prescribing standards. I am here on behalf of the 93,700 members of the American Academy of Family Physicians. The Academy is very interested in issues of health information technology, particularly…
[This Transcript is Unedited] NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS SUBCOMMITTEE ON STANDARDS AND SECURITY May 27, 2004 Hubert H. Humphrey Building Room 505A 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, D.C. Proceedings by: CASET Associates, Ltd. 10201 Lee Highway, Suite 160 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 (703)352-0091 List of Participants: Simon Cohn, M.D., Chair Donna Pickett Vivian…
Actual Oral Testimony May 26, 2004 by Tom Doerr, M.D. tdoerr@wellinx.com Thanks for the opportunity to present my views. My name is Tom Doerr. I am a physician with a part-time Internal Medicine practice that is limited to Medicare beneficiaries. I am also one of the two physicians who founded Wellinx, which is an electronic prescribing…
NCVHS ePrescribing Statement – McKesson Corporation Presenter: John G. Faughnan, MD, MS Product Architect, McKesson Provider Technologies Contact: john.faughnan@mckesson.com Revised: 5/26/04 Introduction McKesson Corporation is the world’s largest (Fortune 16) healthcare services and information technology company. Over the course of its 170-year history, McKesson has grown to provide pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum…
Requirements for E-Prescribing Standards Introduction As a knowledge base provider, Medi-Span, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is limiting our responses, below and in the spreadsheet, to the standards and code sets that address drug information data and a patient’s medical history data. NCPDP Script Standard Medi-Span supports NCPDP’s SCRIPT Standard as the standard for the…
Testimony Gerry Hobson, R.Ph. Cerner Multum 3200 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 300 Denver, Colorado 80209 My name is Gerry Hobson. I am the Manager of Research at Cerner Multum, a subsidiary of the Cerner Corporation. I am a pharmacist by training. My responsibilities at Cerner Multum encompass the management of our content creation processes. …
[This Transcript is Unedited] NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS SUBCOMMITTEE ON STANDARDS AND SECURITY May 26, 2004 Hubert H. Humphrey Building Room 505A 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, D.C. Proceedings by: CASET Associates, Ltd. 10201 Lee Highway Fairfax, Virginia 22030 TABLE OF CONTENTS Call to Order, Welcome, and Introductions – Dr. Cohn E-Prescribing:…
Written Testimony on E-prescribing Submitted to NCVHS by SureScripts, LLC May 17, 2004 Introduction To assure that the adoption of new standards recommended to the Secretary by NCVHS maintains the current momentum of e-prescribing deployment that is supported and facilitated by existing standards, SureScripts makes the following recommendations. We recommend that the 2006 pilots required…
As BCBMA evaluates how it continues over the next decade to fulfill its corporate promise to “always put our members first” as well as fulfilling it broader mission of improving the health of its community, we recognize that the healthcare system as we know it today requires a transformation. Addressing the challenges of improving health…