Written by Irene Froehlich, Director of Marketing at DrFirst
The healthcare industry has been talking about the benefits of e-prescribing for years. By now, the advantages offered to your practice and your patients—through increased workflow efficiency and reduced medication errors—are obvious.
However,making e-prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS) available to physicians has proven to be more of a challenge. This has frustrated providers, patients, and loved ones of patients alike.
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The WiFi Revolution in Healthcare IT
Written by Irene Froehlich, Director of Marketing at Dr First discussing the WiFi revolution in healthcare IT
Healthcare is on the verge of a revolution in mobile technology thanks to WiFi.
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5 Stages of Collaboration in EHRs
Written by Irene Froehlich from DrFirst on 5 Stages of Collaboration in EHRs
Shahid Shah says, “It’s time for electronic health records (EHRs) to grow up.”
“It’s not just about creating electronic health records and sharing them between doctors,” said Shah, software IT analyst and author of the blog The Healthcare IT Guy.
“Care coordination and collaboration aren’t just about adding patient messaging and simple health records sharing— in fact, care coordination and collaboration must
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6 Reasons Why Adopting an EHR Will Increase Practice Efficiency
Guest post from Irene Froehlich, Director of Marketing at DrFirst:
Adopting an electronic health record (EHR) increases practice efficiency which translates to a profitable, organized practice that can focus on the quality of care provided to it’s patients. Here are six considerations for practices researching EHRs to improve efficiency and patient care:
Where’s The Chart? Not quickly locating a patient’s paper chart can be frustrating and time consuming for everyone. A typical
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