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E-prescribing: Welcome Plenary

Course Overview

The following CME activity was developed from the archives of the presentations recorded at the CMS National E-Prescribing Conference held on October 7, 2008 in Boston, MA. For a complete list of courses developed from this event, go to www.massmed.org/cme/CMS_eprescribing.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted this conference in October 2008 to educate physicians and other stakeholders about a newly enacted Federal program of incentive payments to encourage the use of electronic prescribing.  The following session, comprised of three presentations, will serve to outline the benefits of E-prescribing throughout the states and across the nation.

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Welcome from Governor Deval Patrick, Esq. (audio only, no slides)
Presentation Length: 0h 6m 29s

Set the Stage and Donald Carcieri Introduction (audio only, no slides)
Kerry N. Weems, MBA
Presentation Length: 0h 5m 2s 

The State Perspective (audio only, no slides)
The Honorable Donald L. Carcieri
Presentation Length: 0h 38m 43s

The Big Picture How e-Health is Connected to Quality and Better Health Care at a Lower Price, Etc (audio only, no slides)
Michael O. Leavitt
Presentation Length: 0h 45m 11s

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