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It prints on a special paper that's harder to forge, if we print it. I can pull up pharmacies in California if I want. Then, it gives me a list of pharmacies and with a touch of a button I send it to the pharmacy of their choice or can print it. I hit on it and then the form I want it in - whether tablet or liquid, the number of milligrams, and touch on the number of refills. Then, I type in the first letter or two of the drug I want and it gives me a list. With a touch of the stylus, I can click on a letter of a person's name and then find their name and click on it. It's compacted record-keeping because it takes up less room in the charts. It allows me to give patients a generic substitute if they wish, saving them lots of money and insurance companies a lot of money. "It makes prescription writing faster," he said. of Johnson City Pediatrics has been using iScribe on a Palm LifeDrive PDA about two years and said he couldn't be happier.
ISCRIBE MONEY SOFTWARE
Features being offered now for docs signing up include not only free iScribe software but also a printer, related hardware, installation and follow-up, and field support.ĭr. Since the iScribe program first offered the free software to physicians in 2004, 60 Tennessee physicians have come on board and are prescribing meds with handheld devices. The goal is to enroll 250 new BCBS network physicians who write more than 1,000 prescriptions per year. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST) has announced enhancements to the Caremark® Rx, Inc.
