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People, Process, and Technology Accelerate the Path to Growth

The term integration is often marginalized when it refers only to a technical process. The actual technical work in any integration is a means to the end of the business and user goals.

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Successful integrations combine two systems that add value—without complexity—for the user while meeting all stakeholders’ workflow, technical, and business needs. If any of these items is not effectively addressed from the project’s outset, the integration will fail.

The DrFirst integration team works with our electronic health records (EHRs) and other partners to identify the business, clinical, and technical vision for an integration and ensures the interoperability goals are achieved. We build solutions for the current e-prescribing, medication management, care collaboration, or telehealth problems—while ensuring integration supports future goals and growth.

DrFirst Key Qualifications for Success

  • A history that includes hundreds of successful partner integrations
  • An experienced team of engineering, business, regulatory, and clinical experts
  • Compliance with healthcare standards as well as industry and regulatory certifications that remove the burden from your team
  • A dedicated team to guide you through every stage of integration and ongoing success
  • Project certification ensuring best practice compliance, achievement of project goals, and quality checks
  • A commitment to ongoing education and sharing best practices

Technology Plus Expertise Equals Success

With DrFirst as your partner, you are provided dedicated resources to support your goals
during the integration process and throughout our partner relationship:

Customer Success Managers

Always at your side, ensuring your integration and technical success

Integration Engineers

Providing ongoing best-practice guidance and support

Channel Managers

Guiding your successful go-to-market strategy

Our Partner Integration Portal is a central repository to help you with all your needs. It ensures that integration documents, release notes, and training and marketing launch materials are available to you 24/7.

Partners use the portal to:

  • Test APIs and integration components before writing a single line of code
  • Access the Integration Suggester for personalized recommendations
  • Review Go-Live Process components, such as Pre-Coding Call goals, Certifications that ensure clinical and workflow best practices, and Integration status/milestones

A Proven Integration Process

An integration is successful when it meets the strategic goals of your business, and users embrace it. To ensure your goals are met, criteria are defined up front for each stakeholder and each phase of your project. Our proven, simple 7-step process paves the way to a successful project launch.

Schedule a DrFirst Kick-off Call

Once a contract has been signed with DrFirst, your dedicated DrFirst Account Manager will welcome you to our DrFirst network and work with you to schedule a Kick-Off call. Get introduced to your primary points of contact during the integration process and give us a brief demo of your application.

Review Documentation & Get Staging Access

Get access to a sandbox environment, review our technical documentation, consolidate questions and define mental map of your possible integration. Need assistance with the planning? Get a tailor-made integration suggestion via the Integration Suggester tool.

Schedule a Pre-Coding Call with your Technical Expert

Setup a call with our team of integration experts to help us understand your integration plans. We will walk you through some of the key integration aspects, best practices, and make recommendations to help define an ideal integrated solution. Clarify questions, understand certification requirements, and almost anything technical.

Develop Your Integration

Commence with actual development of integration once it has been fully vetted out with our integration expert. Open tickets for technical questions or request a call with the DrFirst Team during this phase. Track your progress against the integration timelines.

Pre-Certify Your Integration

Done with development? Complete a pre-certification for your system by running through various test scenarios. Our team of experts will review this submission to ensure that the implementation complies with best practices including: clinical, operational, and technical requirements.

Get Certified

Walk our certification team through your implementation as they review various aspects of the integration to ensure everything works great. Wrap up any other industry certifications and prepare your beta users.

Beta and Go-Live

Work with your DrFirst Account Manager to plan out operational logistics and go-live with your first set of beta users!

Provider Testimonial

“Overall, DrFirst has provided us with a robust solution that [behavioral healthcare] providers like. The highest compliment for an e-prescribing solution is that the IT staff does not hear complaints from doctors, and DrFirst has broadly achieved that.”

Alex Attinson, Integrations Manager | Foothold Technology, Inc.

Leveraging DrFirst integrations has helped us to realize faster time to market with new capabilities and regulatory compliance.

Product Manager, Electronic Health Record (EHR) Company – Multi-Specialty

Partnering with DrFirst has reduced or eliminated developmental costs, allowed us to focus our internal resources on strategic initiatives, and delivered compliance with regulatory mandates and quality measures.

Business Development, Electronic Health Record (EHR) Company

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The slow adoption of technology standards in healthcare has resulted in variation that causes data to get stuck in “silos” where it’s inaccessible to other systems.

The Right Partner Makes All the Difference

Selecting and implementing technology solutions are two of the most critical determinants of a healthcare organization’s success. With DrFirst, you can be confident that our philosophy and goals match your own and in our unparalleled expertise in e-prescribing, medication management, care collaboration, and telehealth integrations. You can rely on our ability to look out for your well-being and that of your customers, now and in the future.
Over 300 EHR and HIS system vendors trust DrFirst to help them quickly expand core technology, enhance functionality, achieve certifications, retain customers, and spark new sales of their systems.