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2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced

by Fred Pennic 05/21/2020 Leave a Comment

2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced

What You Should Know: - MedTech Breakthrough announces 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners that recognizes the top companies, people, platforms, and products in the health, fitness, and medical technology industries today. - The 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing digital health and medical technology products and services.  MedTech Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes
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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened

by Jasmine Pennic 03/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Coronavirus Forces Cancellation of 2020 HIMSS Conference: 6 Things to Know

What You Need to Know: Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened. - Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more. –Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care “Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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Maryland’s Doctors Urge State to Adopt Telehealth to Prevent Spread of Coronavirus

by Fred Pennic 03/12/2020 Leave a Comment

Rimidi Launches EHR-Integrated COVID-19 Screening App to Identify At-Risk Patients & Limit Exposure to Patients & Staff

What You Need to Know:   - The Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi), which represents 22,000 doctors, today urged the state of Maryland to help protect healthcare workers and others from the novel coronavirus by keeping sick people AWAY from doctors’ offices and instead assess and treat patients through virtual visits. - MedChi has provided doctors with telehealth capabilities enabled by DrFirst’s Backline care collaboration tool. Backline enables physicians to conduct
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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

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 this: every year, vendors must make dozens
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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 text
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DrFirst Integrates With Imprivata to Enable Single Sign-On Secure Messaging

by Jasmine Pennic 08/07/2019 Leave a Comment

DrFirst Integrates With Imprivata to Enable Single Sign-On Secure Messaging

DrFirst announced today their collaboration to deliver single sign-on (SSO) access to HIPAA compliant messaging. Using DrFirst Backline and Imprivata Mobile Device Access, users can now securely communicate in real-time across care team members and patients without the burden of manual logins to access Backline.Impact of Single Sign-On for CliniciansResearchers have found that single sign-on improves productivity among providers, increases HIPAA compliance, decreases errors, and significantly
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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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Cerner Integrates EHR to Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in 46 States

by Jasmine Pennic 05/14/2019 Leave a Comment

Opioid Crisis Survey: Patients Support Prescription Monitoring Programs

As states mandate the physician’s review of prescription drug data, it is increasingly important that they can quickly access critical drug information directly within a person’s electronic health record (EHR). Today, Cerner has announced that it will launch a nationwide connection from the EHR to each state’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP), creating quicker and more efficient access through a partnership with medication management provider DrFirst. In partnership with DrFirst,
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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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