A Medical Device Daily

Allscripts (Chicago), a provider of clinical software and information solutions, reported that Sandia National Laboratories (SNL; Albuquerque, New Mexico) has selected the company’s integrated electronic health record (HER) and practice management (PM) solution to automate and connect clinical and administrative processes for Sandia’s on-site medical clinics.

According to Hewitt and Associates, a human resources services firm, U.S. employers spend between $6,000 and $8,000 per worker for health insurance. In an effort to control costs, large employers are providing their own healthcare in on-site clinics, many are embracing healthcare information technology.

Sandia said it selected Allscripts based on its technology, its financial stability and its experience with leading medical groups.

The EHR functionality of the Allscripts solution gives Sandia physicians instant access to patient information, at the point of care or remotely. Allscripts automates clinical tasks such as prescribing and refilling medications, ordering and reviewing tests, and documenting patient care.

Sandia is a multi-program lab, doing national defense R&D, energy and environment projects.

In other agreements: Document Security Systems (DSS; Rochester, New York) reported that Boise Cascade (Boise, Idaho) has selected DMC (Orlando, Florida) to develop new secure, tamper-proof Medicaid prescription paper for prescription pads and related paperwork.

The companies said that the offering exceeds standards recently set forth in Medicaid legislation regarding paper-based anti-copy/anti-scan security features required in Medicaid papers, starting in October. DMC will provide anti-counterfeiting technology enhancements to its current security paper product, sold through Boise Cascade under the brand name, Boise Beware.

On May 25, legislation H.R. 2206 was signed, requiring that states not pay pharmacies for prescriptions submitted after Oct 1 that does not have at least one of three characteristics designed to prevent fraud through the reproduction and/or modification of prescriptions. Those characteristics are:

• One or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent unauthorized copying of a completed or blank prescription form;

• One or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent the erasure or modification of information written on the prescription by the provider; and

• One or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent the use of counterfeit prescription forms.

By Oct. 1, 2008, all three anti-counterfeiting characteristics must be embedded in all Medicaid papers.

“Healthcare document fraud is a growing problem, with government agencies prosecuting more than $20 billion in Medicare and Medicaid fraud in 2004,” said Geo Plumberg, product manager, converting papers, of Boise Cascade. “As a leader in specialty papers, we have ensured that Boise Beware meets current standards for federal compliance.”

DMC offers protection against counterfeiting and unauthorized copying, scanning and photo imaging of documents, forms, identification and packaging.