Electronic Prescribing Book Edited by Dr. Hale published by HIMSS Click here to go to the HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) web site to order our new Electronic prescribing book titled " Electronic Prescribing for the Medical Practice: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask"  .  A step-by-step guide on planning, choosing, and implementing electronic prescribing in a physician office and specifically developed for practicing physicians and their office staff.  This book provides clear, concise information and guidance on: Current state of electronic prescribing Benefits of electronic prescribing Components of basic and more advanced systems How electronic prescribing fits in an overall health information plan, including moving to a full electronic medical record system Federal and state rules, initiatives and applicable standards Choosing a system, negotiating a contract and implementation The book also includes: Case studies that clearly illustrate and assist in the implementation process Worksheets that guide the gathering, synthesis, analysis and application of information to successfully choose and implement a system References and links to supportive materials. HIMSS 09 Physician Symposium Electronic Prescribing April 4, 2009  Click HERE to access the PowerPoint slide presentation from the talk titled "E-Prescribing Overview "What Works, What Doesn't and How Do We Implement It?" given at the Physician Symposium "Closing the Gap: From Implementation to Safety and Quality"   HIMSS E-Prescribing Interactive WIKI Click HERE to visit the HIMSS interactive e-Prescribing WIKI that contains tip sheets  and other tools as well as discussion threads and best practice on e-prescribing. CMS Boston Conference on Electronic Prescribing October 7, 2008  Click HERE to access the PowerPoint slide presentation from the talk titled "The Business Case for Providers: Economics of Adoption" or click on the box above labelled "e-prescribing to go to a page with more links to the presentation as well as links to the conference web site. HIMSS 2007 Electronic Prescribing lecture slides Click on the box above labelled "e-prescribing" to go to a page with links to the presentation slides for lectures on electronic prescribing given at HIMSS 2007 Annual session in New Orleans 2/27/07 and at the HIMSS summit in San Diego 6/25/07 (slides in these presentations are available for your own personal use but should not be otherwise used or distributed without permission) Welcome Welcome to the home page of Patricia L. Hale MD, PhD, FACP. Specializing in Internal Medicine, with a special interest in Medical Informatics and Osteoporosis. MEDICAL INFORMATICS - Dr. Hale has worked and lectured extensively in the area of Medical Informatics for over 10 years. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College. She has also been the chair of Medical Informatics for the American College of Physicians (on both the national and state level) and member of the Patient Safety Steering Committee as well as chair of the Task Force on Electronic Prescribing for HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society). She has been an appointed member of the work group on Interoperability for the Certification Commission of Health Information Technology (CCHIT) since it began and previously was also co-chair. She is a juror for certification for both inpatient and ambulatory electronic health records for CCHIT as well. Previously Dr. Hale was the Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Glens Falls Hospital and Chief Technology Officer for Adirondack Medicine, Inc. (a regional IPA)where she led efforts in implementation of a full electronic health record at Glens Falls Hospital, including computerized physician order entry and full loop mediciation management (including bar coded medication administration and electronic medication administration). She also led efforts for formation of a Regional Health Information Network in the Adirondack region of upstate New York, the Adirondack Regional Community Health Information Exchange (ARCHIE).   Currently Dr. Hale is the deputy director of the Office of Health Information Technology and Transformation at the New York State Department of Health where she is involved in a number of different types of efforts and initiatives to improve the quality and efficiency of medical care across New York State through the use of medical informatics. Areas of special interest include: Patient Safety, Electronic prescribing, Regional Health Information Networks, Voice and Handwriting Recognition, HIPAA/Security and Confidentiality, and Electronic Health Records. She is co-author of a textbook on Electronic Medical Records published by ACP/ASIM. Research interests in Informatics include functional design for patient centered information systems and interoperability between clinical information systems.  OSTEOPOROSIS - Dr. Hale is the medical director of the Glens Falls Osteoporosis Center and also for the Adirondack Regional Osteoporosis Coalition (www.adroc.org), a non profit organization dedicated to providing educational resources about osteoporosis in the Adirondack regions of New York and Vermont. She has given lectures on topics ranging from osteoporosis to hormone replacement throughout the northeast.  Research interests in this area include computerized evaluation of osteoporosis risk and she is presently involved in a project to computerize risk assessment for osteoporosis for both high risk and lower risk men and women of all ages.    Pevious lectures and materials: HIMSS 2006 Physician Symposium Web Portal and Personal Health Records Lecture Materials Click on the box in the above labelled "HIMSS PS 2006" to go to a page with links to the presentation slides and reference information for lecture given at HIMSS 2006 Physician Symposium 2006 on Web Portals and Personal Health Records NY ACP Health Information Technology lecture materials Click on the box in the upper left labelled "NYS ACP Talks 2005" to go to a page with links to all of the presentation slides and handouts for lectures given at NY ACP regional meetings in 2005 ACP Annual Session 2005 Presentations and Handouts - please click on the box in the upper left labelled "ACP Annuals Session 2005 Talks" to go to a page with links to all of the presentations and handouts for the Electronic Prescribing, EMR Challenge, Beginning Computer and Voice and Handwriting Recognition programs Dr. Hale did at the American College of Physicians 2005 Annual Session April 14 - 16, 2005. HIMSS ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING handout Click here for link to handout for HIMSS 2005 talk on "Electronic Prescribing - What the Doctor Ordered" - given by Dr. Hale February 14, 2005  Click here for a Word document with just the references from the talk. Please go to the Electronic Prescibing page (see link in tool bar above) for further information and links to web sites on this topic.