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? The Surescripts White Coat of Quality is a critical part of Surescripts overall quality program.
? The White Coat recognizes organizations that uphold the highest standards of quality in
e-prescribing.

? The criteria for earning a White Coat requires the applicant to:
1. Provide a signed commitment from company leadership affirming their organization’s
commitment to quality.   2. Measure quality metrics as specified in the published industry guidelines and report those
metrics each month to Surescripts.
3. Implement changes to software that address issues identified in quality reporting. Take
steps to eliminate any issues measured in #2 above.
4. Raise prescriber awareness through training.
? “As the use of e-prescribing continues to grow, electronic health record and e-prescribing
technology vendors continue to benefit from the knowledge that comes from Surescripts’ pharmacists, clinicians, technologists and quality experts conducting clinical quality reviews on millions of electronic prescription messages — all while protecting the privacy of personal health information,” said David Yakimischak, chief quality officer at Surescripts. “Surescripts White Coat of Quality recognizes those vendors that have embraced that knowledge and are using it to improve their technology and train their prescribers. These vendors are not simply replacing handwritten prescriptions with e-prescriptions, they are seizing the opportunity to learn and apply continuous improvements to prescription accuracy, completeness and safety.”
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About Surescripts’ Quality Program
E-prescribing saves lives, improves efficiency and reduces the cost of healthcare for all.  Surescripts’ industry-wide quality program ensures that these benefits are fully realized. The  program is made possible by a nationwide network that enables Surescripts to measure  prescription safety, accuracy and completeness in a way that is simply not possible with other forms of prescribing. This uniquely enables Surescripts to collaborate with EHR vendors,  pharmacies and PBMs on continuous improvements to the e-prescribing process — from the time a prescription is first considered by the prescriber to the time the medication is dispensed, and at all points in between. For more information, contact the Surescripts Quality Office  (quality@surescripts.com) and visit our blog at www.surescripts.com/eprescribingquality.

I see more and more people get comcast as there internet provider. Some important facts that I have found if have a linksys router behind your new comcast highspeed internet you will not get the bandwidth that you are paying for because these home linksys routers are more of a bottleneck than a security aide. It is also important that if you are in the new comcast service areas that offer the new higher speed your router that they provide you is a gigabit router not 10/100, so if you have a router behind make sure that it can handle docsis 3.0 throughput. When you do anything in your network it may adversely effect your production so please make sure you are using quality equipment to save yourself in the long run. With more and more outside connections and interfaces it is important that you keep your network and the equipment in it up to date.

 Make sure to visit the EHR Incentive Programs website for the latest news and updates on the EHR Incentive Programs.

Have you had a patient that has left your practice and you no longer want that them shown as an active patient?
If you have Admin access, you can go into a patients chart in the blue bar-under the Admin tab and click on “Change Chart Status” to one of these choices; Active, Inactive, Duplicate, Moved, Discharged, Deceased, Records Transferred, Account Marked for Review.  A large red bar will appear with what you selected at the top of the patients chart.
This is great if you want to make sure the staff does not make an appointment for a patient that has a large unpaid balance or if a patient is deceased.

Hope this is helpful!