Without exception, the benefits should drive the adoption in any technology implementation.

• Proven to reduce pharmacy to physician office callbacks. Remember roughly 5% of all prescription orders generate a callback from the pharmacy to the physician office. These calls result in an interruption to the office workflow. And, while a few interruptions can generally be managed each day, the work it takes to respond to those calls can be extremely costly to the practice – chart-pulls, re-filing, follow-ups, faxing and other events can make a quick call from the pharmacy a huge task that takes you and your staff out of their productive workflow.

• Streamlining the renewal request system. Studies indicate that nearly half of prescription-related calls into a practice deal with renewal requests. Again, point-of-care prescribing using a script pad and pen can be fast, but, once the patient leaves the office with the initial order, they count on the physician and staff to produce renewal orders. Renewals generally act as interruptions to the practice staff – taking them from the scheduled work of the day. Electronic prescription renewals using DrFirst Rcopia are incredibly simple and fast to execute.

• Increased patient safety. While most physicians admit to one or two errors in prescription orders that could have affected patient health over their careers, the reality is that 7,000 Americans will die from drugs that were prescribed with preventable errors this year . Still millions more will have a preventable allergic reaction or drug-drug interaction that might not kill them, but will definitely affect their health. Using a paper-based system with script pads and charts can be highly effective, but that system is costly to implement day in and day out. With the DrFirst Rcopia electronic prescribing system, you and your staff can have the information they need, at the right place, at the right time – whether connected through our DrFirst Rcopia Web system or while using a mobile solution like the palmOne Treo™ 600 and our DrFirst Rcopia PDA system.

• Increased patient care plan compliance. Research shows that nearly 20% of paper-based prescription orders go unfilled by the patient. Sending the script directly to the patient’s pharmacy of choice electronically significantly cuts down on the barriers that keep the patient from initiating their drug therapy – raising the overall success rate from your care plan and making for healthier and happier patients.

• Sophisticated reporting system. Whether you simply want to print a record of all a patient’s prescribed drugs for quick paper-based reference or, you and your associates are looking to leverage detailed practice- and enterprise-wide reporting, DrFirst Rcopia can help.