Nice hatchet job

[Kursk]

This again proves what money grubbing, greedy, technologically backward doctors we are:

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,63899,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2

Read it and enjoy. Share the special moment with someone you love.

[docshrink]

Yesiree, the third most salient point after how lazy stupid and technologically backward we are is that NEWT GINGRICH????? is funding a think tank.

Who the hell would listen to a man named after a fish...a small fish at that?

Personally, all kidding aside I have used WebMD's super duper Envoy system for about four months now. While you can't beat the speed of the thing and the checks do come in faster, the denial rate for things I cannot possibly fathom (like an SS# missing on a pt I've seen for years) is astounding. The system also catches "mistakes" that are not really mistakes but we get 'em kicked back just the same to "resubmit electornically". Those two words are fast coming to replace "Please Hold" and "Press 1,2,...125" as my all time favorites :mad:

Soooo, if this is an example of space age technology..fuggedaboudit

The ePocrates system, while overall very valuable for speed, is less os for accuracy or has too many information not available answers.

In Fla, BTW, the legislature has decided to fix the sloppy handwriting problem by making it a misdemeanor I think if the pharmacist can't read your rx :confused:

[bioisnonsense]

Newt is an amphibian...more a frog than a fish, no?




In Fla, BTW, the legislature has decided to fix the sloppy handwriting problem by making it a misdemeanor I think if the pharmacist can't read your rx :confused:


LOL! TOO funny. Is there a special prison for these criminals?

[Phillip]

Docshrink, worse than that, in Florida pharmacies are forbidden by law from accepting any prescriptions in cursive. Getting us ready for electronically generated prescriptions, coming soon to a pharmacy near you.

[MHDoc]

Docshrink, worse than that, in Florida pharmacies are forbidden by law from accepting any prescriptions in cursive. Getting us ready for electronically generated prescriptions, coming soon to a pharmacy near you.
It is one thing for polititicans to talk about EMR, where is the funding going to come from? :mad:

[Kursk]

Electronic RX: hasn't flown yet. It will be mandated. Not only will you be a criminal if you don't use it, you are going to have to pay a transaction fee for every RX!

We have been complaining about lack of respect - it's just getting started I am afraid. We are such a politically weak group that we are an easy target. Smeared continually, people don't care or bother to check the facts they just grind out this garbage and blame us because they "know" we are the problem. You can never go wrong over-simplifying issues with the american public. Just create a villian and get the blame game going.

[ozzie]

here is whats down the pike for NY (http://www.nyspsych.org/public/components/societytools/admin/viewNewnews.asp?ArticleID=3511&newsjob=ArticleID)

[docshrink]

Ugh! What a mess. I was once proselytized by Walgreens to install a simple 1 diskette system in my netowrk which would automatically call the proper pharmacy, download the pts' meds and document (somewhere) what I had done. When I asked what the safeguards were so that this innocuous floppy could not invade my pt database, they looked at me like I was from Mars. Why, they asked would I be concerned with that? This was just a simple little program to avoid the need for faxes call backs and ultimately pt f/u visits.

:eek: Watson, come here. Its Humana calling! :confused:

And so,Alexander Graham Bell takes another dramatic step to befuddle the human race................ In tomorrow's installment: the inventor of multiple telephone lines utters the first "please hold". :cool: