EPCS requires medical practitioners to use two-factor authentication to sign prescriptions for medical narcotics issued in digital form. To comply with EPCS and enable the issuing of e-prescriptions for controlled substances, hospitals and healthcare institutions must instate EPCS-compliant processes certi...
Big news for the cannabis industry: on April 30, 2024, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced that it will reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The Biden Administration has been pushing for this change for months, and the ...
电子处方,顾名思义,就是医生通过电子手段(电脑,手机或其他掌上终端)来开出,签署,打印(如果有必要),传送和保存处方。 美国的电子处方在2007年才随着《患者和医疗服务提供者医疗照顾改善法案》(Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act ) 的实施而在全国范围合法化。和纸质处方相比,电子处方系统不但避免了...
This Resource Is a newspaper article by Diane Cochran of the Billings Gazette about a symposium for law enforcement, medical providers, and educators about chronic pain management in Montana. Dr. John Oakley, medical director of a regional pain center, claimed some 80% of physicians did not ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the DEAwaived this requirement, allowing healthcare providers to issue prescriptions for controlled substances via telehealth without conducting a prior in-person evaluation. The DEA did specify that the prescription must be "issued for a legitimate medical pu...
Telehealth providers are cheering the DEA's decision to extend the COVID rules for telemedicine, at least temporarily. "We saw that the Office of Management and Budget and the DEA put out a statement to extend the COVID rules for telemedicine. We don’t know for how long,...
This Resource Is a newspaper article by Diane Cochran of the Billings Gazette about a symposium for law enforcement, medical providers, and educators about chronic pain management in Montana. Dr. John Oakley, medical director of a regional pain center, claimed some 80% of physicians did not pres...
Medical professionals who prescribe or dispense controlled substances must register with the DEA. In general, the DEA will rely on the issuance of a state license to a doctor or pharmacist as a basis for issuing the registration number.
Composite measures calculated from individual performance indicators increasingly are used to profile and reward health care providers. We illustrate an innovative way of using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to create a composite measure of quality for profiling facilities, informing consumers, and pay-...
“DEA is open to considering—for some controlled substances—implementation of a separate Special Registration for telemedicine prescribing for patients without requiring the patient to ever have had an in-person medical evaluation at all.”