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Mid Rogue eHealth Services will launch its ePrescribing software,developed by Greenway Medical Technologies, in October 2008, through a seriesof events targeting local providers in Southern Oregon. Events will be held inGrants Pass, Medford, and Coos Bay.
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Physicians who adopt electronic prescribing in 2009 will receive higherrate increases than those who adopt in 2010 or 2011. As an added incentive toget doctors to use electronic prescribing sooner rather than later, theincreases will decline over five years and, beginning in 2012, the governmentplans to penalize physicians who do not adopt electronic prescriptions throughreduced Medicare payments.
Greenway Medical Technologies and Mid Rogue eHealth Services have enteredinto a Business Alliance Partnership that allows eHealth Services to resellGreenway's software as a value-added resaler. Mid Rogue eHealth Services isorganized as an Application Software Provider that allows customers to accessthe Greenway software on a subscription basis. Mid Rogue eHealth Serviceshosts the software locally and manages all the operations, maintenance, andupgrades needed to run an electronic health record system on a turn-key basis.The ePrescribing software can be accessed as a free-standing software or as anintegrated model within the full electronic health record system. Customersaccess the system via a secure web-based connection and do not have to worryabout the expense or management of the hardware or software.
Mid Rogue eHealth Services has aggregated the infrastructure, staff, andcapital investment to deliver an integrated electronic medical record andpractice management system. The foundation of its infrastructure is theGreenway Medical Technologies suite of products. This includes PrimeChart forelectronic health record, PrimePractice for practice management, coding,billing, and scheduling, and ePrescribing. All three software modules areintegrated and eliminate the numerous data handoffs, both verbal andhand-written, inherent to paper medical record systems. The electronic systemeliminates errors and omissions that can adversely impact patient care. Italso improves clinic income needed to assure that adequate health resourcescontinue to be available and accessible by all. The three modules can beimplemented as a single, integrated system or staged over time withePrescribing and PrimePractice as free-standing modules.
Over the next three years, Mid Rogue eHealth Services plans to establish acommunity health network through a collaborative initiative to improve thesafety, quality and efficiency of health care through the use of informationtechnology and the secure exchange of health information. Physicians usingelectronic medical record systems will be able to securely share patientinformation in support of enhanced patient quality and treatment outcomes,reduce duplication of diagnostic testing, and eliminate redundant datagathering activities all of which will increase patient and providerconvenience and efficiencies. Mid Rogue eHealth Services is committed topromoting health information exchange through interoperability whereby usersof multiple software applications can share information in a
