ePrescribing comes to CIS

In the coming weeks, CIS 's prescription writing tool will be upgraded to perform ePrescribing (electronic prescribing) in accordance with the federal government's health information technology strategy.  By way of CMS incentive programs, Baystate ambulatory practices will reap financial benefit from the implementation of this new technology.  From the prescriber's perspective, the process doesn't change all that much.  There are a couple of enhancements that, if all goes as planned, will improve the experience of the Prescription Writer.  Formulary and Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) information will be readily available at the time of writing.  What I hope to be even more useful is the new External Rx History.  This tool allows you to download all prescribed medications over the last two years regardless of whether the scripts were handwritten, auto-faxed or ePrescribed.  As you can imagine, this will help monitor compliance with refills.  Even better, you will be able to track for controlled substances.  All prescription details, including dates, refills, sig, prescribers, and pharmacies, will be viewable at the point of service.

Eileen Giardina created a fantastic and comprehensive web-based training program that is available on the CIS Info site.  Definitely take the time to review this entire module.  Because this link is "behind the firewall" and requires you to be logged into the BH network and in order to give you a quick overview of the major enhancements, I've created the following web-based video.

Improved Health Maintenance Tool

Coming soon to CIS is a a much enhanced Health Maintenance design.  There is one fix and two very much needed additions to the utility: comments will hold to a single expectation rather than across the page as in the past till now; the ability to customize timeframes for particular HM expectations; and the opportunity to add custom expectations for particular patients.

I've created a short slide-driven video that reviews these major features.  While there's always more to know about anything on CIS, this should get you started.  The link should work regardless of whether you are on the network.  If you are interested, I am glad to send you a QuickTime version that you can download onto your desktop for repeat viewing.


New Health Maintenance Module