New Web-Based Medical Billing Shows Trend Toward Electronic Health Records
Published: 2010-07-11 14:06:04By: Matthew Sturdevant | Hartford Courant | March 30, 2010
An increasing number of Connecticut doctors are using a new Web-based system for medical billing, scheduling appointments and prescribing medications.
The program, CareTracker, was launched five years ago and has been owned since 2007 by the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Ingenix of Eden Prairie, Minn., which employs about 400 at an office in Rocky Hill.
Ingenix announced Monday that it contracted to provide the online service to Bristol-based Central Connecticut Medical Management, which has 59 doctors in 16 offices. It's one of the larger doctor organizations to contract for the service that costs about $500 per month per physician, said Ingenix spokesman Kyle Christensen.
The system allows doctors to log on and find out a patient's history of medications and also to prescribe medicine online directly to the patient's pharmacy of choice. About 4,000 physicians use the system, mostly in the Northeast.
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