Dr First EHR is a leading technology provider that helps healthcare organizations and providers solve medication management, care collaboration, price transparency, patient engagement and adherence challenges. Their solutions shatter information silos and securely connect people at every touchpoint of care to improve patient outcomes.
The company recently pulled in $50 million in equity to help accelerate growth and targeted acquisitions.
MedHx
MedHx, an AI-powered solution, saves hospital pharmacy staff time and resources by importing data from local and national sources to create the most accurate medication history for each patient. The solution also reduces errors associated with manual data entry.
The solution helps hospitals to improve medication adherence, reduce readmissions and emergency room visits, prioritize at-risk patients, and perform medication reconciliation. It also supports population health management.
Using the most complete medication history information, MedHx provides a more holistic view of the patient and enables better care. It is also able to identify gaps in patient care and trigger safety checks for drug interactions or allergies.
MedHx is an easy to use, web-based medication history application that is designed to work with your EHR. It helps your clinicians easily find more medication data, identify opioid abusers and improve medication adherence.
myBenefitCheck
myBenefitCheck, a new feature from DrFirst, provides prescribers with patient-specific, actual cost information for prescribed medications as well as therapeutically appropriate alternatives. This solution allows clinicians to have conversations about medication adherence and help reduce financial barriers to taking medication.
myBenefitCheck is designed to work with the ePrescribe function in electronic health records (EHR) systems. It provides real-time drug pricing and benefit information within the prescribing workflow, which promotes better collaboration between physicians and patients.
It also helps providers see when a drug adds steps, time, and cost to the prescription filling process. Combined with DrFirst’s iPrescribe and mBC solutions, it provides in-workflow decision support for providers and is available across more than 300 EHR platforms.
myBenefitCheck is designed to meet the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ requirement that insurers that offer Medicare Part D health benefits provide an electronic drug cost and health benefit comparison tool that’s compatible with at least one EHR system. It also offers additional functionality to MEDITECH Expanse users, including a link to an EHR-integrated prescription drug monitoring program enabled by DrFirst.
iPrescribe
iPrescribe is an award-winning mobile e-prescribing solution from DrFirst that allows prescribers to safely and securely write prescriptions from any location. It works with any EHR or Practice Management System and is 100% cloud-based so patient data stays secure on our servers, even if your phone gets stolen.
Powered by Surescripts, America’s primary e-prescribing network and other proprietary DrFirst sources, iPrescribe surfaces the most robust medication history in a patient’s profile. It also keeps a history of every prescription you send, accessible with just a tap.
Its simple user interface makes writing prescriptions faster. Favorites let you create a new prescription in as few as four touches. Its powerful medication management tools, including up to 24 months of medication history, robust clinical decision support, in-workflow access to prescription drug monitoring programs, and real-time drug pricing tool for patient-specific out-of-pocket costs help drive better adherence.
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SmartSig
SmartSig aims to address these challenges by producing accurate, structured, real-time translations. It converts free text elements of medication sigs into a health system’s standard terminology and processes the data into appropriate fields so that it becomes functional within the EHR.
The patented AI technology is a game-changing solution that nearly perfects the quality of converted free-text sigs and drastically reduces the amount of time staff must spend verifying and reconciling medication histories, according to company officials. Moreover, it has the potential to reduce adverse drug events (ADEs), which are blamed for more than 100,000 deaths annually.
When medications are imported into EHRs, sigs associated with them typically arrive as unstructured free text, often missing pieces of information or using a variety of terms for the same instructions. These gaps in prescription history make medication reconciliation a labor-intensive, error-prone process, which may contribute to care team burnout.
