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February 15, 2022

Guest post: Making E-Prescribing Safer for Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment Providers and Patients

As if the coronavirus pandemic weren’t challenging enough, the resulting social isolation, loss of employment, and increase in anxiety also has...
June 12, 2018

Opioid Crisis Symposium Highlights Need for Public-Private Partnerships

At the recent CRITICAL CONNECTIONS Opioid Crisis Symposium organized by Modern Healthcare, the complexity of the opioid problem was clear. As one of...
February 12, 2018

Healthcare Must Step Up Its Fight Against Opioid Addiction

I’ve been a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) for 23 years, most of that time as CIO of Huntington...
December 21, 2017

DrFirst Response to The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis Report

DrFirst wholeheartedly supports efforts to combat the national opioid crisis.  While the focus on increasing awareness of this deadly epidemic is...
December 12, 2017

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – but not for everyone

“There'll be much mistletoeing And hearts will be glowing When love ones are near It’s the most wonderful time of the year!”   If you...
December 8, 2017

Top 7 Reasons for Dentists to E-Prescribe

Dentists may not write as many prescriptions as physician practices, but they can still benefit from the many advantages of electronic prescribing,...
April 21, 2016

Helping Physicians Take Full Advantage of EPCS

With e-prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) legal in all fifty states for Schedules II - V, and more than 54,000 pharmacies across the country...
March 11, 2016

DrFirst Interviews Healthcare Thought Leaders

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...unless it's a ton of great ideas, new connections, valuable insights--and a fever, chills and rattling chest!...
May 27, 2015

I-STOP or Not – Why Physicians Should Start E-prescribing Now

Many New York physicians feel as if they dodged a bullet on March 13th, when Governor Cuomo signed bill S2486, delaying the mandatory e-prescribing...
November 21, 2014

EPCS Adoption: What Comes First, the Chicken (Pharmacies) or the Egg (Physicians)

When it comes to EPCS adoption, there’s a classic case of “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” In this particular instance the question...
October 3, 2014

T-Minus 169 days…the Clock is Ticking for New York Providers

Mandatory Electronic Prescribing Effective March 27, 2015 This is the headline that jumps off of the page on the New York Bureau of Narcotic...
August 26, 2014

VIDEO: AHRQ Highlights Pioneer Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances Study

Several years ago, we embarked on a journey that no other health IT company had taken to date: we participated in a study that dramatically shifted...
March 27, 2014

I-STOP in New York is Finally Taking Off

In the very short amount of time since the New York State Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement (BNE) finalized its guidelines for providers and pharmacies...
January 21, 2014

The Prescriber Role in Controlled Substance Fraud, Abuse and Clinical Workflow Considerations

Much has changed in the prescriber and the clinical IT vendor communities since the DEA issued the Interim Final Rule in early 2010, making...
November 11, 2013

EPCS – What’s New?

For the third blog in our series about the Controlled Substance Epidemic and Crisis, I'd like to talk about Electronic Prescribing of Controlled...
August 28, 2013

The Controlled Substance Epidemic and Crisis

Here we are toward the end of the summer of 2013, and not a day goes by that we don’t view or hear of some story in the local or national media...

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