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For Immediate Release
State
of Delaware to Promote Electronic Prescribing
Pilot Program Will Provide 100 Physicians with DrFirst
Rcopia Electronic Prescribing
Technology to Improve Patient Safety and Physician Efficiency
Rockville,
MD—September 23, 2005—DrFirst’s award-winning Rcopia® electronic
prescribing solution has been chosen by the State of Delaware for a
collaborative pilot program that will target 100 physicians to promote the adoption and use of electronic prescribing technology.
While the program will benefit all patients, the
focus is on improving patient safety, reducing costs and improving the overall
quality of care in the delivery of prescription drug benefits to the state’s
employees and beneficiaries. Electronic
prescribing helps accomplish this through increased decision support for
providers at the point-of-prescribing and better communication and connectivity
between physicians, pharmacies and payer organizations.
Through the program, DrFirst will recruit 100 high prescribing providers
who provide services in the state of Delaware and issue DrFirst Rcopia
ePrescribing licenses, handheld PDA devices, WiFi wireless network hardware and
ePocrates Rx Pro software. To further enhance rapid adoption, DrFirst will also
offer a full patient demographic data upload, training, implementation, and
workflow consulting services to participating practices.
"The Medical Society of Delaware is committed to pursuing and promoting new technologies in
the name of quality improvement, patient safety, and enhanced efficiency,"
said James P. Marvel, Jr., M.D., President of
the Medical Society of Delaware.
"Electronic prescription technology has many benefits to physicians,
pharmacists and patients, the most important of which is the potential for
increased patient safety. We are excited to be at the forefront of helping to
support usage of this new application.”
DrFirst will provide its Rcopia Insight reporting tool and
consulting services to deliver deep analysis of the actual results of the
program and its impact in key areas.
The program will evaluate success based on the ability of electronic prescribing to
enhance patient safety through decreased adverse drug events, increased
formulary compliance and improved efficiencies in the prescription writing
process. Improvements in these areas are expected to lower healthcare costs
while improving the general quality of care.
"We applaud the
State of Delaware for recognizing the value and power of electronic prescribing
and for their commitment to ensure that physicians and employees realize the
many benefits that our system brings to the healthcare community," said G.
Cameron Deemer, Senior VP and GM of DrFirst.
DrFirst’s Rcopia®
is an end-to-end electronic prescribing system that manages the prescription
writing process electronically by connecting physicians to critical patient
information and key healthcare stakeholders at the point of prescribing. Rcopia delivers a patient’s insurance
information, medication history, allergies and pharmacy preferences to
physicians at the point of care. In
addition to these capabilities, Rcopia® was chosen for its ability to share
data between physicians in order to improve continuity of care along with its
ability to tightly interface with other systems such as electronic medical
record (EMR) and practice management systems (PMS).
Physicians can use DrFirst Rcopia via the Internet and on handheld
devices. True mobility is delivered using the Rcopia PDA allows physicians
anytime/anywhere access to patient information and prescription writing
functionality whether connected or disconnected to the Internet.
Utilizing the latest advancements
in Internet, security, wireless, web and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
technology, DrFirst provides the healthcare community Rcopia, a full featured
stand alone electronic prescription management system. Rcopia can be interfaced
with most Practice Management and Electronic Medical Records software, is
affordable, intuitive and easily implemented into the provider's workflow.
DrFirst is partnered with SureScripts, RxHub, FirstDataBank, NDC Health and
Epocrates, to ensure that their clients have access to the most reliable and up
to date information and services.
DrFirst is committed to improving healthcare and patient safety by
delivering technologies that enable medical professionals and their staff to
quickly and easily access critical medical information at the point of care.
More information about DrFirst can be found at www.drfirst.com.
The Medical Society of Delaware, the third oldest society of its kind in the United States, was founded on February 3, 1789. Although much has changed in the medical profession since then, the principle upon which this society of physicians was founded has remained steadfast: to further the ideals of the medical profession, thereby enhancing the health and well-being of the citizen's of Delaware. We exist to serve our members and, through them, all Delawareans. We do this in four areas: advocacy, representation, education, and the advancement of public health and well-being. Nearly 1700 Delaware physicians, representing a majority of the physician population in Delaware, are currently members of the Medical Society of Delaware.