DrFirst, a leading provider of healthcare IT solutions designed to improve clinical outcomes for patients, today announced a partnership to bring electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) to Greenway’s network of thousands of healthcare providers across primary care and more than 30 specialties.
U.S. providers are increasingly prescribing controlled substances electronically in order to improve safety, efficiency and security. Controlled substance e-prescribing, which is now legal in 47 states and available through nearly one-third of U.S. pharmacies, will become mandatory in the state of New York by March 27, 2015 due to the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing/Prescription Monitoring Program (I-STOP) legislation.
DrFirst’s EPCS Gold℠ 2.0 software will be integrated into Greenway’s Intergy, PrimeSUITE and SuccessEHS systems.
“We chose DrFirst for controlled substance e-prescribing based on its industry-leading expertise, its total-solution support covering the identity proofing process, token management and end-user onboarding, as well as the flexibility of its technology which will enable us to integrate EPCS Gold into all three of our EHR software platforms,” said Mark Janiszewski, Greenway senior vice president of product management.
“DrFirst’s architecture allows us to rapidly integrate and bring controlled substance e-prescribing to our users with a consistent and simple user interface,” he continued. “Since EPCS Gold is also fully compliant with DEA rules and NIST identity-proofing standards, DrFirst’s solution brings our users tremendous value.”
“With the increased scrutiny by the healthcare industry on prescription drug abuse, EPCS Gold provides Greenway customers with a powerful tool to prevent doctor shopping and prescription drug fraud,” said G. Cameron Deemer, president of DrFirst. “As a progressive healthcare technology company, Greenway recognizes and embraces the importance of bringing controlled substance e-prescribing to its users, and delivering the advantage of a single e-prescribing workflow for both legend and controlled drugs.”
To download DrFirst’s 2014 report on electronic prescribing of controlled substances, “The Evolving Landscape for Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) — An Industry Briefing for 2014,” visit http://go.drfirst.com/
