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Humana and DrFirst Integrate Prescription Alerts into Clinical Workflows

by Fred Pennic 08/13/2025 Leave a Comment

Humana and DrFirst Partner to Close Care Gaps with Prescription Alerts

What You Should Know:  - Humana Inc. and health technology company DrFirst have announced a new program designed to close gaps in care for patients with chronic conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease.  - The program aims to help healthcare providers take timely and informed action by connecting with them directly within their clinical workflow. The first phase of this initiative will focus on increasing the use of statin therapy among eligible patients, aligning with
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Greenway Health, DrFirst Join Forces to Combat Prescription Abandonment

by Jasmine Pennic 03/27/2024 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - Greenway Health, a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions, and DrFirst, a health technology pioneer, have announced a strategic integration partnership focused on improving medication adherence. - The integration aims to leverage automation technology to address a critical issue in healthcare: patients not picking up or following through with prescribed medications. Seamless Integration for Improved Patient Outcomes The partnership
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Prescribing Trends Surge: Wegovy & Ozempic Gain Popularity, Survey Shows

by Fred Pennic 11/06/2023 Leave a Comment

Prescribing Trends Surge: Wegovy & Ozempic Gain Popularity, Survey Shows

What You Should Know: - Prescriptions for the popular weight loss drug Wegovy showed a six-fold increase between December 2022 and June 2023, according to a recent analysis of prescribing trends by DrFirst. - Prescriptions for Ozempic, the lower-dose version for treating diabetes, increased by 65% during the same period among doctors on the DrFirst prescribing network. - DrFirst's network includes over 350,000 prescribers across the U.S., including 260,000 doctors, who use their
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Emory Health Taps DrFirst to Leverage Clinical-Grade AI for Medication Adherence & Affordability

by Jasmine Pennic 11/01/2023 Leave a Comment

Emory Health Taps DrFirst to Leverage Clinical-Grade AI for Medication Adherence & Affordability

What You Should Know:  - Emory Healthcare, a comprehensive academic health system in Georgia, is collaborating with healthcare technology pioneer DrFirst to help patients access and adhere to affordable, appropriate prescription medications for their health conditions and ailments.  - As part of the collaboration, Emory Healthcare will leverage three medication management services offered within Fuzion by DrFirst, a software platform that uses clinical-grade artificial
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17 Execs Share How Health IT Can Address Clinician Burnout, Staffing, & Capacity

by Fred Pennic 03/23/2023 Leave a Comment

Survey: Clinician Burnout Is A Public Health Crisis Demanding Urgent Action

Clinician shortage has reached a new level of urgency as we face rising demand and healthcare costs, according to a recent Accenture report. Healthcare workers are increasingly burned out and leaving the industry altogether in droves. Those who remain to do the work are overburdened.  We ask seventeen healthcare IT executives for their insights on how health IT solutions could potentially help address clinician burnout, clinician staffing shortages, and deal with capacity. Staffing levels
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Health Gorilla Launches Pharmacy Data, Powered by DrFirst

by Syed Hamza Sohail 01/25/2023 Leave a Comment

Health Gorilla Launches Pharmacy Data, Powered by DrFirst

What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla, a Health Information Network (HIN) and leading interoperability platform launches Pharmacy Data, a new product enabling seamless access to complete medication history data from most major pharmacies. - Pharmacy Data is powered by a new partnership with DrFirst and its MedHx Population Risk Management (PRM) solution to provide deduplicated medication history from local and national data sources, including prescribing data, pharmacy
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Executive Roundtable: Can Innovation Alleviate Clinician Burnout?

by Fred Pennic 07/18/2022 Leave a Comment

Physician Burnout Report: Understanding The Impact of Burnout on Healthcare Executives

The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory about clinician burnout cited numerous societal, cultural, structural, and organizational causes—including excessive workloads, administrative burden, and lack of organizational support. The potential fallout of this trajectory is alarming: The advisory cites the Association of American Medical Colleges’ estimate on clinician demand outpacing supply, with an anticipated shortage of between
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GoodRx Acquires Pharmacy Services Platform VitaCare for $150M

by Fred Pennic 03/07/2022 Leave a Comment

GoodRx Acquires Pharmacy Services Platform VitaCare for $150M

What You Should Know:- GoodRx announced that it will acquire vitaCare Prescription Services, a tech-enabled pharmacy services platform that expands GoodRx’s offering to pharma manufacturers while improving patient access and adherence to affordable brand drugs.   - Over 500 million brand prescriptions are written every year, yet only half are ever filled. This acquisition will give GoodRx the tools we need to help address this problem and facilitate the brand
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DrFirst Raises $50M in Follow-On Equity Investment, Totals $135M

by Fred Pennic 05/12/2021 Leave a Comment

DrFirst Secures $50 Million Follow-on Equity Investment from Sixth Street to cap off $135M total in 2020-21

What You Should Know: - DrFirst, a provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions, announced today the closing of a $50 million equity investment from Sixth Street Growth, a leading global investment firm. Following Sixth Street’s previous $35 million investment and another $50 million from Goldman Sachs Growth, both in 2020, DrFirst’s investment total over the past year is now $135 million. - The company’s solution is used by nearly 300,000 healthcare
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Paper vs. Electronic: 72% of Americans Want Physicians to Use Mobile E-Prescribing Tools

by Fred Pennic 05/03/2021 Leave a Comment

Paper vs. Electronic: 72% of Americans Want Physicians to Use Mobile E-Prescribing Tools

What We Should Know: - A new e-prescription survey of 1,004 U.S. consumers, ages 18 and over conducted by Propeller Insights on behalf of DrFirst in December 2020 shows that despite the industry’s claim of widespread adoption of e-prescribing (EPCS), many doctors continue to write paper prescriptions. The survey found that 53% of Americans say some of their prescriptions are still sent to the pharmacy by phone, fax, or paper. - They also often wait days for even urgently needed
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