What You Should Know:
- DrChrono continues to modernize EHR platform with the
addition of new features live chat and prescription drug monitoring program.
- As doctors continue to work remotely due to COVID-19,
new features allow for more efficiency and seamless patient data processing via
the platform.
DrChrono Inc.,
the company developing the essential platform and services for modern medical
practices, announced today the availability of its newest features, Live Chat,
which
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Maryland’s Doctors Urge State to Adopt Telehealth to Prevent Spread of Coronavirus
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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Norton Healthcare Fights Opioid Epidemic with PDMP Integration in Epic EHR
- Norton Healthcare, a health system serving patients in Kentucky and southern Indiana, is now deploying Appriss Health technology to integrate its prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) with its Epic electronic health record (EHR). - The solutions enable Norton Healthcare providers to share PDMP information across state lines and provide advanced analytic insights to improve opioid stewardship and help identify, prevent and manage substance use disorder in patients. - This is helping to
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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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Appriss Health Acquires Behavioral Health Platform OpenBeds
- Appriss Health acquires cloud-based behavioral health platform OpenBeds to remove gaps in behavioral health treatment referrals. - OpenBeds ensures that providers don't spend hours of their day manually trying to find treatment facilities for patients, because the data is available to them within minutes.- The acquisition of OpenBeds helps Appriss Health to build on its efforts to address the complex and changing opioid crisis plaguing communities through proven solutions for patient
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Redox Integrates With OpiSafe to Provide Opioid Risk Reduction Services Nationwide
Redox, a health data integration platform, today announced an integration partnership with OpiSafe to expand the use of OpiSafe’s comprehensive pain medication management web and mobile platform to help thousands of providers across the country prescribe and treat pain more effectively while avoiding bad outcomes.Integration BenefitsThe opioid epidemic requires innovative approaches and the digital health industry is taking steps to make inroads against this crisis. As part of the partnership,
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Georgia Integrates Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs with EHRs Statewide
Appriss Health announced that Georgia is integrating its prescription drug monitoring programs into EHR systems of all prescribers across the state with Appriss Health’s PMP Gateway solution. This is being made possible by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant – so all prescribers can instantly access prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) information directly in the clinical workflow.Substance use disorder (SUD) is estimated to affect 21 million people, according to a report
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Appriss Launches Machine Learning Powered Patient Matching Solution
Patient matching is essential to prevent or quickly identify patients suffering from opioid addiction. This week, Appriss Health has launched ApprissID, a patient record-matching solution based on machine learning and consolidation algorithms within PMP AWARxE, Appriss Health’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) solution that serves 44 PDMPs across the U.S.ApprissID utilizes combinations and segments of various identifiers to connect multiple records together to identify a unique
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Cerner Integrates EHR to Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in 46 States
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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Can Optimized EHR Data Help Healthcare Combat the Opioid Epidemic?
DrFirst’s Nick Barger explains how the EHR data at the right time can prevent opioids from getting into the wrong hands.While the debate on how to combat the infiltration and abuse of illegal narcotics in the U.S. languished for decades, something more sinister and formidable was growing. This new threat was not lurking in the shadows; instead, it was right under the noses and prescription pads of physicians— opioids.The abuse of prescription opioids has now become a national public health
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