Meaningful Use

Looking to Meet Requirements?

No matter your situation, DrFirst has the right solution for your meaningful use qualification needs.

Eligible providers have options as to how they can meet the meaningful use requirements as determined by the HITECH Act.

Rcopia-MU

Rcopia-MU EHR Module is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®)!*

DrFirst EMR/EHR Partners

DrFirst partners with 200+ EMR/EHR vendors allowing practices ready to go paperless experience the award-winning Rcopia e-prescribing from within their EMR/EHR of choice.

DrFirst has identified four kinds of practices:

  • Practice 1
    Not ready to go 100% paperless but needs funding to invest in a future meaningful use compliant EHR.
  • Practice 2
    Ready to go paperless but is not sure which EHR will best meet practice needs and ensure it will meet meaningful use requirements.
  • Practice 3
    Doesn't see Medicare or Medicaid patients.
  • Practice 4
    Already has an EHR.

Not Ready to Go Paperless?

If you're not ready to convert your practice to a paperless environment, but you want to take advantage of meaningful use incentive money, Rcopia-MU (Meaningful Use) is a speedy and inexpensive way to do just that!

  • Qualify for $18,000 of the meaningful use incentive payments
  • Minimize the workflow and learning curve changes for your staff
  • Customer-friendly training to get you up and running fast while achieving meaningful use
  • Transition your practice to paperless at your own pace

Meeting meaningful use means the EMR you adopt must meet 15 criteria including reporting patient demographics, e-prescribing and drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks. Plus the system must meet 5 of 10 menu items. Rcopia-MU is a certified modular system and is guaranteed to meet all meaningful use requirements at a much lower cost than a complete EMR system implementation*. Complete the form above to learn more about this revolutionary system that will increase your return on investment and ensure you meet meaningful use requirements.

Ready for a Paperless System But Looking for the Right EHR?

Meaningful use solutions for your practice.

Then you're in luck! A survey by the Journal of the American College of Surgeons showed that practices with an EHR can create enough cost reductions to pay for the system in less than two years.

If you're ready to escape the paper jungle and go electronic while satisfying meaningful use, look to DrFirst. We'll match you with one of our 200+ EHR partners to outfit you with the system that best meets your practice and specialty needs. Then you'll wonder how you ran your practice any other way!

By implementing an EHR, you'll be eligible to receive up to $63,750 of the meaningful use government incentives. In addition to the bonus money, putting an EHR in place yields you a myriad of time-saving and patient safety benefits. That's less time searching for and pulling patient charts; fewer question calls from other practices and pharmacies; and more important safety checks including drug-drug interaction alerts and more.

And what provider couldn't use more time to get back to being a doctor? Fill out the form above to learn more about the meaningful use options DrFirst has for providers to get back to being a doctor, first

Remember: In 2015, physicians who do not meet the meaningful use Federal requirements will be faced with fee schedule reductions from 3 to 5 percent.

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Rcopia-MU allows physicians to satisfy Meaningful Use requirements cost effectively. Rcopia-MU is certified meaningful use solution and is designed to be an inexpensive and feature rich approach to satisfying Meaningful Use requirements for providers who are not ready for a full EHR/EMR upgrade. The money physicians save can be used in the future as they move toward an EHR/EMR at their own pace.

Stage 1 Criteria/Objectives for Meaningful Use

  1. Provide access to comprehensive patient health data for patient's healthcare team
  2. Use evidence-based order sets and computerized provider order entry (CPOE)
  3. Apply clinical decision support at the point-of-care
  4. Generate lists of patients who need care and use them to reach out to those patients
  5. Report information for quality improvement and public reporting

Satisfying the above criteria will qualify eligible providers for the meaningful use incentive payments.

Don't See Medicare or Medicaid Patients?

Start e-prescribing with the award-winning Rcopia e-prescribing system from DrFirst!

DrFirst's electronic prescription management system, Rcopia, has been awarded the prestigious Surescripts Gold Solution Provider certification for four consecutive years, plus 12 other awards. Rcopia allows physicians to streamline practice workflow, create practice efficiencies and increase productivity through electronic medication orders, renewals, access to clinical alerts and decision support tools and formulary checking. Using Rcopia allows a practice to provide a higher level of patient service and safety while saving time and money. Rcopia allows physicians to start with e-prescribing and get comfortable with an electronic workflow in their practice while evaluating what EHR/EMR is right for them. The practice can upgrade to Rcopia-MU to meet Meaningful Use or one of DrFirst's many Certified partners. This allow practices to experience the same awarded-winning e-prescribing experience they started with, without losing any prescribing history and satisfy meaningful use criteria. This approach to a broad health IT strategy is only possible through the Rcopia e-prescribing system and the partnerships built on the DrFirst Open Borders concept. Rcopia is widely integrated with over 200 EMR/EHR systems.

*DrFirst's Rcopia-MU is the combination of a DrFirst Rcopia ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certified Modular EHR, certification number CC-1112-401680-2, which meets the following certification criteria: 170.302(a-e, j, o-v) and 170.304(a-b), and the WellCentive Patient Registry 2.0, certification number CC-1112-946650-3, which meets the following certification criteria: 170.302(c-i, k-v) and 170.304(c-j). The additional software relied upon for testing included OpenATNA, First DataBank Drug Database, and Surescripts. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments.

Using Rcopia Can Save You $16K a Year per Provider!

An MGMA study recently concluded that electronic prescribing results in average savings of 336.7 hours and $15,769 per full time equivalent (FTE) physician!

In addition to the financial incentives from the Federal government for e-prescribing, the operational benefits practices realize from e-prescribing go far beyond the dollars accrued accrue from federal programs and will result in an even greater return on investment.