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Coalition Watch: Get Connected

The American Osteopathic Association joined the Get Connected campaign March 31, the latest medical society to sign on to the effort promoting electronic prescriptions, or e-prescribing.The Get Connected campaign launched March 4 and is managed by the Center for Improving Medication Management (CIMM). The American Academy of Family Physicians, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, the Medical Group Management Association, SureScrips, and companies Humana Inc. and Intel Corp. founded CIMM.Medicare Part D in the Medicare Modernization Act, sets a April 1, 2009 deadline to end paper prescriptions, including faxed scripts from computers. The campaign’s goal is to replace… Read More