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Announcements --- Recent News
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Special Spring 2008 COCIT Newsletter Available For All (05-01-2008) The AAP Council on Clinical Information Technology (COCIT) publishes a
semi-annual newsletter, cocitnews, as a benefit of COCIT membership.
COCIT recently released the Spring 2008 issue of cocitnews and is making
it freely available online to anyone with an interest in incorporating
information technology into clinical care. We hope you will enjoy this
special issue. If the contents have caught your interest, we hope you
will consider joining COCIT in order to receive future issues. In
addition, COCIT members have access to several e-mail discussion lists
to discuss these topics with their peers. For more information on
joining COCIT, visit http://www.aap.org/member/SectionMbrreq.htm COCIT Election Results (04-25-2008) Thank you to all COCIT members who participated in our recent Executive Committee election. We had a final response rate of 23.14%. We are pleased to announce that Dr Willa Drummond was reelected and will serve a 2nd 3-year term beginning on July 1, 2008. In addition, COCIT's chairperson, Dr Mark Simonian, will complete his term as of June 30, 2008. At the April 5, 2008 meeting, the COCIT Executive Committee elected Dr Joseph Schneider to take over from Dr Simonian. Dr Eugenia Marcus was elected Vice Chairperson. Drs Schneider and Marcus will begin 2-year terms on July 1. Congratulations!
NPI Deadline Approaching (04-17-2008) As of May 23, 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is requiring all pharmacies to submit the provider's National Provider Identifier (NPI) on all prescription drug claims for Medicare and Medicaid prescriptions. Please see this letter for more information.
TEPR Announces Pediatric Day Events (04-14-2008) Members of COCIT will once again participate in Pediatric Day at the 2008 Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference sponsored by the Medical Records Institute. Pediatric Day will involve electronic medical record (EMR) vendors competing for awards based on their software's child health functions. This year's program will feature
disease management functions and an office scenario and will require vendors to produce a Continuity of Care Record (CCR) that will transfer patient data between EMRs in an innovative format. Pediatric Day will be held Tuesday, May 20, 2008 in Ft Lauderdale, FL.
Physician registration fees are as follows: Full conference $590; 2 days $490; 1 day $290; 3 days - exhibit only $300; Tutorials $125. Physicians and staff can register at www.tepr.com in the physician section. The above rates are valid until May 4, 2008. Spring 2008 COCIT Newsletter Available Online (03-19-2008) A 'sneak peak' of the 2008 Spring issue of the COCIT newsletter is now available online at http://www.aapcocit.org/spring2008s.pdf which displays the 1st two pages, including the Table of Contents.
The full issue will soon be available online in PDF format to COCIT members in the COCIT Members Only Area of the AAP Members Only Channel. AAP Participating in E-Prescribing Portal Developed by Surescripts (03-04-2008) The American Academy of Pediatrics has joined AAFP, MGMA, and other professional organizations in sponsoring an online portal -- www.GetRxConnected.com -- developed by SureScripts, where providers can learn how to transition from paper-based prescribing to e-prescribing. As of April 1, 2008 all written Medicaid prescriptions must be on a tamper-resistant blank. Electronic prescriptions are excluded from this requirement. For practices already using an EMR to prepare and send prescriptions, GetRxConnected.com contains information on how to establish an electronic connection to pharmacies.
COCIT's Affiliate Membership Category Expanded! (06-21-2007) Thank you to all COCIT members who voted in our March election. The response was overwhelming - 91.5% of those voting chose to allow non-physicians to join COCIT as Affiliate Members. To qualify, non-physicians must be actively involved in the administration and practice of pediatric medicine and be employed by or under the direct supervision of a Fellow of the AAP. Affiliate Members will be eligible to subscribe to any of our listservs, will have access to COCIT Members Only Web content, and will receive our semi-annual newsletter. In addition, Affiliate Membership includes a subscription to AAP News. You can find an application for Affiliate Membership at
http://www.aap.org/member/AppforAffiliateMembership.pdf. The application must include a letter of support from an AAP Fellow or Specialty Fellow. If members of your office staff (RNs, PAs, PNPs, office managers, etc) are interested in becoming Affiliate Members of COCIT, please encourage them to do so!
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