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Since 2000, healthcare IT pioneer DrFirst has empowered providers and patients to achieve better health through intelligent medication management. We improve healthcare efficiency and effectiveness by enhancing e-prescribing workflows, improving medication history, optimizing clinical data usability, and helping patients start and stay on therapy. In the last few years, DrFirst has won over 25 awards for excellence and innovation, including winning Gold in the prestigious Edison Awards in 2023, recognizing our game-changing use of AI to streamline time-consuming healthcare workflows and prevent medication errors. Our solutions are used by more than 350,000 prescribers, 71,000 pharmacies, 270 EHRs and health information systems, and over 2,000 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada. To learn more, visit DrFirst.com and follow @DrFirst.

Blog Post by DrFirst

December 20, 20112 min read

Why Correctional Care Facilities Need Online Health Records

Running a prison is not inexpensive. A 2011 Financial Times article reported that states ...
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December 19, 20113 min read

How Electronic Medication History Saves Lives

The shift from paper-based prescribing and medication history methods to an electronic ...
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November 17, 20113 min read

How EPCS Gold TM 2.0 Can Prevent 'Drug Shopping'

The battle against prescription drug addiction is never ending, and one that has been ...
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September 23, 20111 min read

Critical Access Hospitals Get Funding For Health IT to Stimulate Economy

There’s good news this month for critical access hospitals (CAHs). The Obama ...
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February 7, 20111 min read

The Stick is Coming! But it's Easy to Avoid the Penalties!

If you aren’t familiar with the federal government’s eRX Incentive Program, aka MIPPA, it ...
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December 30, 20102 min read

What a Year! DrFirst Achieves Historic Milestones in 2010

DrFirst, Inc., will mark 2010 as one of the most innovative and groundbreaking years in ...
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December 6, 20103 min read

A Few Thoughts About Meaningful Use: An Interview with Thomas Sullivan, MD

Q: The use of electronic health records (EHRs) is growing more popular in the U.S., but ...
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December 1, 20101 min read

Black Book Rankings Declares DrFirst and 11 Partners Fly Above the Crowd

Black Book Rankings, an internationally recognized firm known for accurate, impartial ...
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November 18, 20101 min read

Meaningful Use Program: It's Not Just for PCPs Anymore

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has been out and about promoting the ...
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