Blue Cross Blue Shield of Columbia, South Carolina and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of Newark, New Jersey, are giving their member physicians access to hand-held prescription software. Both initiatives were created to help improve patient safety and enhance the quality of care.
The payer organizations will offer their physicians access to PDA prescription software from AdvancePCS, an Irving, Texas-based health care improvement services vendor. The software is designed to enable physicians to write prescriptions and send them directly to retail and mail order pharmacies via a PDA running the Palm OS. The application also includes preferred drug lists and formulary information for the Blues plans and other payer organizations.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey will begin its electronic prescribing initiative this spring for physicians at Egg Harbor Township, N.J.-based AtlantiCare Health System. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina will begin its initiative as a pilot program for a select group of physicians in its network.
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