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Panelists say e-prescribing and shared records ease opioid management; Medicaid adds chronic pain to disease-management program
Summary
Panelists reported that electronic prescribing and shared imaging/records improve medication safety and continuity; a family physician who advises Montana Medicaid said chronic pain was added to Medicaid’s disease-management program effective March 1.
Panelists at the Missoula physician conference said health information technology — especially e-prescribing and shared imaging — has materially improved clinicians’ ability to manage controlled medications and to coordinate care across sites. Separately, a physician who advises Montana Medicaid said the state added chronic pain to its disease-management program.
“After one year of using it, [clinicians] said, ‘we would never manage this amount of medications if we didn't have this system,’ ” said Dr. Randall Seacrest, describing an electronic prescribing system used in his pain clinic. He and other panelists…
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