DrFirst, Inc.

The unfillable prescription problem 💊 DrFirst experts Colin Banas, M.D., Nick Barger, PharmD, and Tyler Wince break it down: scripts that are clinically sound but fail on administrative technicalities like a missing diagnosis code, the wrong unit of measure, or an incorrect quantity. The fix isn't more alerts—it's smarter ones. Machine learning can surface the right information during the prescribing process itself, guiding providers toward a clean prescription before the problem exists. Read the full Q&A 👉 https://hubs.la/Q04sFRzv0

Smarter e-prescribing for better care 🙌 Complete medication history, insurance benefit visibility, and real-time decision support that catches errors before they leave the workflow—all built into your existing prescribing process so patients start therapy faster. See us at booth #1947 at #NACDSTSE to see how DrFirst solutions help more than 100 million patients a year. Swing by this weekend through Monday or learn more here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e7TVG5zN

What's the state of ePA a year after the insurer pledge? 🍝 "I still see rooms with fax machines, which is unbelievable, and dedicated clinical teams with multiple browsers open because they're interacting with different portals for different payers and different drugs, and so it's all very much spaghetti," says Colin Banas, M.D., M.H.A. "It's a non-unified experience, and it's wasteful." Read the story in Physicians Practice to hear what's needed to untangle the spaghetti before the federal requirements land on January 1, 2027 ⬇️ https://hubs.la/Q04sGFw40

Keep calm and carry on ... prescribing 💊 When a three-week EHR outage at Signature Healthcare, MA threatened patient care, longtime partner DrFirst was able to step in with mobile prescribing and medication history. Around 140 clinicians were able to adopt the new technology very quickly, processing more than 22,000 scripts during the incident. “There’s always a bug,” said Joe Diver FACHDM, VP and CIO at Signature.  “But this solution was seamless. This just worked.”  Read more in our new blog 👇 https://hubs.la/Q04stLzQ0

Healthcare has modernized many workflows—but prior authorization has lagged behind... See how CMS hopes to change that. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gCe5nhtR DrFirst, Inc. #CMS #ASTP #digitalhealth

Reducing physician burden with well-designed medication management 🙌

A provider assesses the patient, selects the therapy, and hits “send.” Clinically, the work is done, but that's just the tip of the iceberg 🛳️ Beneath every “sent” prescription lies a hidden mass of friction—units of measure, quantity limits, diagnosis codes, and prior authorization—that pulls clinically sound scripts back to the prescriber for rework.  For EHR vendors, that friction shows up as a user experience problem.  Our new infographic maps what’s beneath the surface—and how to clear the channel for your prescribers.  Get it here 👉 https://hubs.la/Q04rxvVD0

Literally hundreds of ways to say "take one pill by mouth daily" 💊 Semantic mapping can step in to translate instructions that are incomplete or incompatible across different electronic health record and pharmacy systems, DrFirst Chief Medical Officer Colin Banas, M.D., M.H.A., tells Pharmacy Practice News. “The pharmacist can now work on quality improvement initiatives or spend more time on patient care—something that allows them to practice at the top of their license,” he added. https://hubs.la/Q04rvss70

It's not a matter of if, but when. 😱 Every hospital and health system faces EHR downtime, and when it hits, medication management breaks down, patient safety is compromised, and providers are left without the tools they depend on. Watch this Healthcare Innovation interview with Colin Banas, M.D., M.H.A., to hear how hospitals and health systems can maintain safe, effective prescribing when the network goes down.