Healthcare Hashtags and Trends

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Utilizing social media in Health IT has its challenges with complex terminology and acronyms.  Every time we tweet from @DoseSpot, the age old debate of whether to use #healthIT or #HIT comes up.  Recently launched, the Healthcare Hashtag Project curated by Symplur, a leading Healthcare Social Media Consultancy, created the project to help individuals and companies address these issues and to:

• Find where healthcare conversations are taking place
• Learn who to follow within a specialty or disease
• Follow trends from conferences in real-time or in archive

The project measures everything from trending hashtags and topics to the most talked about disease states and who is leading the conversations.  We plan to utilize this tool in the following ways:

1. Track trending hashtags when curating Tweets to increase readership
2. Follow influential health IT voices in social media
3. Get involved in conversations at medical meetings by utilizing official conference hashtags

Medication Lists: Important for Prescribers and Patients

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Lists are a part of our daily lives, from to-do lists to grocery lists.  But what about maintaining an active medication list?

Having a personal medication list readily available is vital in the case of an emergency.  The FDA recommends people taking medication:

• Keep the list of your medications with you at all times and let a loved one know.
• Keep a list of your medications and dietary supplements with you at all times, such as in your wallet or purse, and keep a copy in your home.
• Share a copy of the medication list with a family member or friend, or let them know where you keep the list. In an emergency, that person will be able to inform your doctors of the medications and dietary supplements you use.

Make a medication list today and bring it with you to your next doctor’s appointment.  Knowing your medication regimen will allow physicians that e-Prescribe to check for drug and drug-allergy interactions as well as adverse drug reactions.  Get more tips from the FDA at http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm096403.htm.

Checking For Drug Interactions

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Drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks are becoming a new standard in electronic health record and e-Prescribing solutions.  Interaction checks are required for meaningful use and are being used by more physicians every day.

Online drug-interaction checking tools are a great at home resource.  They evaluate both prescription and over the counter medication regimens including vitamins and supplements and flag all interactions in real-time.  As online resources continue to pop up, the latest being from CVS, we compiled a list below of valuable drug interaction tools to jumpstart your search:

• CVS
• Drugs.com
• Healthline
• Medscape
• Walgreens

e-Prescribing State By State – Texas

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Featured e-Prescribing State: Texas

Office Based Physicians e-Prescribing in Texas

Interested in another state’s e-Prescribing statistics? Just Contact DoseSpot.

Source: Surescripts State Progress Reports

Health IT in the Greater Boston Area

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DoseSpot is in the healthcare zone along with 9 other awesome health IT companies here in the Greater Boston area. Learn more about what we’re all up to!  

Athenahealth (Watertown, MA): Cloud-based services for EHR, practice management and care coordination.

Claricode (Waltham, MA): Medical software development and application integration services exclusively for the healthcare industry.

CoPatient (Waltham, MA): Web platform to help consumers identify and resolve medical billing errors and overcharges.

DoseSpot (Waltham, MA): Surescripts Certified e-Prescribing platform offering solutions to medical and dental software companies.

Eyenetra (Somerville, MA): Eye care platform enabling on-demand eye testing, remote access to vendors and providers through eye diagnostics on mobile phones.

Ginger.io (Cambridge, MA): Web-based dashboard for researchers and healthcare providers and a mobile phone app for patients.

iMD-soft (Needham, MA): Clinical information systems and EMRs for critical, perioperative and acute care.

iQuartic (Cambridge, MA): EHR analytics for risk profiling, disease management, and quality benchmarking.

QMedic (Cambridge, MA): Passive wearable sensing platform and personal emergency response solution that provides 24/7 connectivity between seniors and remote caregivers.

QuantiaMD (Waltham, MA): Free online community where practicing physicians share practical medicine.

…Congrats to this week’s DoseSpot #TuesdayTweetup winner Michael Planchart, @theEHRGuy.  Stay tuned for next week’s #TuesdayTweetup for another chance to be featured on eprescribing.org.

DoseSpot & Patient Assistance

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DoseSpot & Patient Assistance Provide Prescription Savings

DoseSpot and Patient Assistance partnered earlier this year to provide prescription cost savings to patients throughout the United States.

Patient Assistance is a free prescription drug coupon program helping patient’s cut prescription costs. “Patient Assistance Programs and Savings Plans are essential to those that are uninsured and under-insured. At almost $1 billion in savings over the last 6 years we have only begun to scratch the surface in helping those that may have a need. These discounts are truly a win-win-win” said Rex Bowden, Founder and President of PatientAssistance.com. “The patient gets the savings, the pharmacy gets a cash payment at the point-of-sale, and the doctor gets a happier patient that is adhering to their requests.”

As an example, a sample of 84 prescriptions routed from DoseSpot to the patient pharmacies resulted in more than $5,447 in prescription savings for patients. Patient Assistance offers thousands of medication programs and is available nationwide at more than 52,000 pharmacies.

“DoseSpot is overwhelmingly pleased with the savings it has secured for our doctor’s patients” noted Greg Waldstreicher, President, DoseSpot. “We look forward to growing our partnership with Patient Assistance and continuing to provide our e-Prescribing Integration customers with the best e-Prescribing opportunities available.”

About DoseSpot:
DoseSpot is an intuitive and Surescripts Certified e-Prescribing platform specifically designed to integrate with electronic health record, practice management, telemedicine, and billing software. DoseSpot has offered affordable and integratable e-Prescribing solutions to medical & dental software companies since 2009. For more information, please visit www.DoseSpot.com.

Announcing: DoseSpot e-Prescribing Integration Bootcamp

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DoseSpot Announces Innovative e-Prescribing Integration Bootcamp

WALTHAM, MA, JUNE 20, 2013 – DoseSpot, an industry leader in e-Prescribing Integration for medical and dental software, announced today an innovative 2-day BootCamp for DoseSpot Integration customers. The 2-day BootCamp for ‘Technical Gurus and Business Moguls’ will cover all Integration basics in preparation for the customer’s Surescripts e-Prescribing Certification.

“Here at DoseSpot, we pride ourselves in customer relations and Integration BootCamp allows us to work face-to-face with our customers”, commented Greg Waldstreicher, President, DoseSpot. “This is a really exciting opportunity and we look forward to hosting the ‘BootCampers’ at our office in Waltham, MA.”

To learn how you can experience e-Prescribing Integration BootCamp, visit www.dosespot.com/bootcamp.

About DoseSpot:
DoseSpot is an intuitive and Surescripts Certified e-Prescribing platform specifically designed to integrate with electronic health record, practice management, telemedicine, and billing software. DoseSpot has offered affordable and integratable e-Prescribing solutions to medical & dental software companies since 2009. For more information, please visit www.DoseSpot.com.

DoseSpot – January Newsletter

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ePrescribing Integration Made Easy!

About Bear River Mental Health: Bear River Mental Health (BRMH) began providing mental health services in January 1977 and became the first free-standing, private not-for-profit comprehensive entity in the state of Utah. BRMH has been providing quality mental health treatment for over three decades and currently serves over 2,000 residents annually.

Bear River Mental Health’s ePrescribing Timeline:

Customer Testimonial: “DoseSpot was a perfect fit for our electronic prescription requirements. The DoseSpot team has been great to work with, very helpful and responsive. The integration of their solution into our system was quick and simple, and I have been very pleased with the process overall.”

– Thad Hunsaker, BRMH Software Development

Medication Allergies: Easily send medication allergies back and forth between your EHR & DoseSpot.  Below is some sample code from our API Guide for all the techies out there.

Wolters Kluwer Health Announces Lexicomp and DoseSpot Partnership to Offer an Integrated ePrescribing Solution for Dental Professionals..http://bit.ly/z254xe

Empower Systems Achieves Full Surescripts Certification Through DoseSpot..http://bit.ly/w1SbKB