We have release our advanced document management feature on the iPad.
Physicians can now view uploaded paper charts, old hand written scripts, x-rays, lab results or just about anything a doctor wants on the iPad,
Check out the new feature:
Doctors can prescribe drugs on an iPad! Patients can pick them up from any pharmacy. No paper involved.
Right now doctors are writing prescriptions on paper. This isn’t ideal. Paper gets lost, pharmacies might miss read hand writing and there are times when doctors aren’t aware of all of the drugs a patient is on, drug interactions are always a concern.
Imagine a future where there are no paper prescriptions, when there is no confusion on a doctors hand writing from a script and drug interaction issues are almost down to 0%. We are nearing that future with electronic prescription. On an iPad, a doctor has literally a pad that he can write a prescription within seconds and the patient can pick up the drugs from the pharmacy of choice. It is just that easy.
We are the first company to get eRx or electronic prescriptions on the iPad. Electronic prescription are a game changer in healthcare.
Below is a demo of eRx in action:
(As of Dec 2009, ~53k pharmacies which ~85% of all pharmacies in the US. are setup to get eprescriptions (eRx). SureScripts puts out an annual overview report of this.
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Here DrChrono.com University will discuss the specific Meaningful Use Criteria as it applies to both the Core Set and the Menu Set. The Core Set comprises 15 required criteria, and the Menu Set represents a menu of 10 criteria of which any 5 the physician may choose. Demonstrating meaningful use of at least 5 of these criteria in the Menu Set is compulsory. The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology has released its Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology. This program will assure the availability of certified EHR technology prior to the date on which health care providers seeking the incentive payments would begin to report demonstrable meaningful use of certified EHR technology. It is expected that the ONC will publish on their website a list of EHR technologies that meet the meaningful use criteria sometime this fall.
Here are the Stage 1 criteria Core Set for Eligible Professionals. The Menu Set will be found in DrChrono.com University’s next blog post.
CORE SET
The criteria are numbered, with the criteria themselves followed by a bulleted explanation of the measures that will be used to test the criteria.
1. Use Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) for medication orders directly entered by any licensed health care professional who can enter orders into the medical record per state, local, and professional guidelines
2. Implement drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks
3. Generate and transmit permissible prescriptions electronically (eRx)
4. Record demographics including preferred language, gender, ethnicity, race, and date of birth
5. Maintain up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses
6. Maintain active medication list
7. Maintain active medication allergy list
8. Record and chart changes in vital signs including height, weight, blood pressure, BMI, and growth charts for children 2-20 years
9. Record smoking status for patients 13 years and older
10. Implement one clinical decision support rule relevant to specialty or high clinical priority along with the ability to track compliance of that rule
11. Report ambulatory clinical quality measures to CMS or the States
12. Provide patients with an electronic copy of their health information (including diagnostic test results, problem list, medication lists, medication allergies), upon request
13. Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit
14. Capability to exchange key clinical information (for example, problem list, medication list, medication allergies, diagnostic test results), among providers of care and patient authorized entities electronically
15. Protect electronic health information created or maintained by the certified EHR technology through the implementation of appropriate technical capabilities
The ONC is currently in the process of receiving applications to approve of temporary certification organizations, and they plan to compile a list of certified EHR technologies so that physicians can begin the process of shopping for their new EHR. This list is expected to be available this fall.
DrChrono.com, and its iPad EHR platform are guaranteed to meet Meaningful Use Criteria.
It is the purpose of DrChrono.com University to keep you up to date with the latest information revolving around Meaningful Use so that all clinicians who utilize DrChrono.com’s iPad EHR will smoothly transition to a better, brighter, and patient-centered EHR system that will notably enhance the lives of practicioners and patients alike. The information posted on this blog is applicable only to Eligible Professionals, not Eligible Hospitals or Critical Access Hospitals. Stay tuned for weekly to biweekly updates.

Boris who is part of the drchrono team graduated with his PhD from Stanford University. I always thought of Stanford as a great place for innovation, companies like Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, and Google were founded by Stanford faculty and alumni.
I found out that Stanford Medical Students are now handed iPads in medical school, this is something truly innovative, go Stanford! I hope more medical schools start looking to new technology as well!
Read more about this from a Stanford blog, appadvise and apple insider.