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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

by Fred Pennic 12/30/2020 Leave a Comment

30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

by Fred Pennic 06/30/2020 Leave a Comment

New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

What You Should Know: - Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs). - Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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DrFirst, MARQUIS Med Rec Partner to Help Hospitals Improve Patient Safety Through Better Medication Reconciliation

by Jasmine Pennic 06/19/2020 Leave a Comment

DrFirst, MARQUIS Med Rec Partner to Help Hospitals Improve Patient Safety Through Better Medication Reconciliation

What You Should Know: - DrFirst and the Society for Hospital Medicine, through its MARQUIS Med Rec Collaborative forms partnership, to work with hospitals to reduce these discrepancies in the medication reconciliation process—one of the most important steps to improve patient safety during transitions of care. - DrFirst will customize The Collaborative’s current toolkit, illustrating how its MedHx solution—the healthcare industry’s broadest source of medication history data available,
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DrFirst’s Patent-Pending AI-Based Tech Solves Major Hurdles to Medication Reconciliation

by Jasmine Pennic 12/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Key Dates to Maximize Meaningful Use and MIPAA Incentive Payments Infographic

- DrFirst announced a pending patent for AI technology today that breaks down the “prescription language barriers” between different EHRs – a crucial step in the process to avoid adverse drug events – solving a once intractable problem faced by hospitals.  - The new U.S. patented tech uses an advanced approach for applying AI to unstructured medical information to process free text into appropriate data fields of the EHRs, infer missing prescription elements based on context, and convert free
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Fueling EHR Innovation by Outsourcing e-Prescribing Development

by G. Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst 11/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Fueling EHR Innovation by Outsourcing e-Prescribing Development

G. Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst Health IT software – and EHRs in particular – are widely criticized for their inefficient workflows and unfriendly user interfaces. Unhappy end-users may blame EHR vendors for failing to deliver great software, perhaps not realizing that health IT companies struggle to balance limited financial and human resources and must choose between meeting ever-changing regulatory demands and creating innovative updates that improve the user experience.  Consider
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DrFirst Integrates Adobe Sign With Backline Secure Care Collaboration Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 09/10/2019 Leave a Comment

DrFirst Integrates Adobe Sign With Backline Secure Care Collaboration Platform

- DrFirst and Adobe Sign has announced the integration of Adobe Sign e-signature solution with DrFirst’s Backline secure care collaboration platform, producing the first mobile solution for the healthcare market to offer an e-signature capability. - Using the joint solution, providers can send SMS messages to the mobile devices of patients, caregivers, or other clinicians to share documents that require signatures. - Once received, the patient or provider can tap a link in the
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DrFirst Integrates with Epic’s Real Time Prescription Benefits Prescribing Workflow

by Fred Pennic 08/01/2019 Leave a Comment

Taking New Medications: Consumers Blame Anxiety on Lack of Time with Physicians

DrFirst, a provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions announced today that it has entered into an integration agreement with leading EHR provider Epic to make DrFirst’s myBenefitCheck (real-time benefit check) service available to clients in Epic’s RTPB (Real-Time Prescription Benefits) prescribing workflow to help doctors and patients understand the cost of the drugs and drive medication adherence.How myBenefitCheck WorksVia myBenefitCheck, prescribers
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Opioid Crisis Survey: Patients Support Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs to Curb Abuse

by Fred Pennic 04/30/2019 Leave a Comment

Opioid Crisis Survey: Patients Support Prescription Monitoring Programs

According to a DrFirst sponsored Opioid crisis survey, 76% of consumers favor the utilization of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) and 68% of them support the use of PDMPs even if it slows clinicians down. Many states require physicians and pharmacists to consult a PDMP before prescribing or dispensing controlled substances, allowing clinicians to spot patients who may be misusing prescription opioids and are at risk for overdose. However, the survey reveals providers often ignore
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DrFirst Structures a New $17M Commercial Financing Facility with SunTrust

by Jasmine Pennic 04/23/2019 Leave a Comment

DrFirst Structures a New $17M Commercial Financing Facility with SunTrust

DrFirst, a provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions, announced today that it has structured a new $17 million commercial financing facility with SunTrust Banks, Inc. The financing extends DrFirst’s strategic relationship with SunTrust Banks, a partnership which initially began in 2015.New Funds Will Support Expansion Initiatives in Pharma and Consumer SectorsAs part of an extending financing deal with SunTrust, DrFirst will work to further expand its
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DrFirst Launches E-Prescribing App to Combat Opioid Over-Prescribing

by Jasmine Pennic 02/09/2018 Leave a Comment

DrFirst Launches E-Prescribing App to Combat Opioid Over-Prescribing

 DrFirst, a provider of in e-prescribing and medication management solutions, today announced the launch of iPrescribe, a mobile app that allows physicians to prescribe legend drugs and controlled substances while complying with state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) requirements. The iPrescribe app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.iPrescribe is the first mobile solution to optimize access to all the necessary tools physicians need to manage patients’
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