Field-Tested E-Prescribe Training Tips

Wed, Dec 16, 2009

Show Me The Money

Ditch the pad.

Ditch the pad.

If you’ve ever called a friend to program your TIVO or help you rejigger your privacy settings on Facebook, you know that even the sharpest techies sometimes need a little help from their friends.

That’s what scares some physician practices away from e-prescribing, despite the easy two-percent e-prescribe bonus available to them in 2010.

When it comes to training, your physician practice peers may not be able to coach you on whether their e-script implementation went smoothly, since many ofthem haven’t yet taken the plunge. “It is estimated that only 12 percent of office-based prescribers currently use e-prescribing,” says Barbara Cobuzzi, president of CRN Healthcare Solutions.

When the time comes to train your staff on how to use the e-prescribing system, your best bet is to gather everyone together.

“We trained our clinicians all at the same time and did not

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