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N.C. Blues offers e-prescribing
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Jan. 30, 2006
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina announced Jan. 12 that it will offer electronic prescribing systems at no cost to 1,000 in-network, high-prescribing physicians.
Under the $1.2 million initiative, which is designed to encourage physicians to prescribe electronically, doctors will receive a wireless router, handheld computer and a one-year free subscription to the software, said Rita Simonetta, a spokeswoman for the Blues.
If doctors decide to use the system after the one-year period expires, they will have to pay a $500 annual fee, she said.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/01/30/bibf0130.htm.