Payers:
Rcopia E-Prescribing
Are you planning to launch an e-prescribing initiative?
Are you considering e-prescribing as a short-term solution to a long-term HIT plan?
What is the right strategy for e-prescribing for your situation?

Since 2004, DrFirst has worked with more payers than any e-prescribing company in the market, helping our clients achieve their savings and safety goals while providing technologies to enable broad health information technology (HIT) strategies.

Sponsoring an e-prescribing initiative positions your company as a forward-thinking leader that cares about bringing a “safety first” attitude and greater efficiencies to your community.
Advantages of sponsoring Rcopia include:

• Increased formulary compliance
• Increased generic dispensing and generic substitution rates
• Decreased medical errors
• Increased patient safety and quality of care
• Increased value to physicians
• Providing positive public relation opportunities
• Demonstration of leadership
• Reduced drug spend and avoid potentially serious Adverse Drug Events (ADE's)
• Positive impact on member relations
• Lowers member co-pay by optimizing information delivery at the point-of-care
• Positive impact on provider relations
• Enables efficiency improvements in the physician’s office
• Effective clinical outreach — distinguishes the payer as a leader in the provider community

Sample of Rcopia functionality includes:

• National standards compliant, fully electronic prescribing with true, two way messaging.
• Real-time formulary, medication history and clinical decision support at the point-of-care.
• Fraud and abuse tracking
• Drug utilization review reporting
• Facilitation of accurate meds/data capture in Emergency Departments, and the Admission, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) inpatient environments
• Ad hoc reporting functionality for deep insight into provider behaviors and actual analysis of the impact of the program

It’s true that e-prescribing can deliver proven benefits in the areas of reduced drug spending, increased patient safety and reduced medical costs. But that is just the beginning. With DrFirst, e-prescribing becomes a key foundational technology to a much broader HIT strategy which can drive greater benefits long-term while helping differentiate your services to members, employers and physicians.

Unlike other vendor solutions, DrFirst is not confined to a standalone e-prescribing system. Rather, DrFirst provides unique application and connectivity solutions for ambulatory and acute care environments with a focus on “connecting communities” through interoperability and secure data sharing. Entire communities of physicians, patients and healthcare stakeholders can receive benefits from e-prescribing and close continuity-of-care gaps. Additional services can then be delivered over the network for strategic access to physicians while they are caring for your patients at the point-of-care.


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