It’s difficult to find an area of our lives that hasn’t been affected by COVID-19, so it’s no surprise that prescribing changed over the past year as well.

Despite mandates for electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS), DrFirst survey shows that many doctors continue to write paper prescriptions.

Everyone else is mobile nowadays, so why not healthcare providers? If you’re a doctor who isn’t using a mobile app for e-prescribing, it’s time to get moving!

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See the new blog post to find out how e-prescribing can help you avoid negatively affecting your practice and your patient’s health.

Healthcare providers wrote more new prescriptions for antidepressants and antianxiety medications in 2020 over 2019 levels within the iPrescribe mobile app, according to details of a new index report by DrFirst.

Dentists may not write as many prescriptions as physician practices, but they can still benefit from the many advantages of electronic prescribing, including being more responsive to patient needs and avoiding drug interactions or allergies. Mobile e-prescribing makes these benefits available wherever you are.  

Since just about everyone—healthcare providers included—carries their smartphone everywhere they go these days, having the best medical apps can give doctors the resources they need right at their fingertips.

For busy physicians on the move, mobile e-prescribing gives you the freedom to write and renew prescriptions before or after work, when you’re on call, while traveling between your office and the hospital, or even during lunch.

DrFirst surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. adults to measure their understanding and use of opioid-containing medications. 

In the past year, iPrescribe won the 2020 MedTech Award for Best New ePrescribing Solution and hit a major milestone with more than 2.7 million prescriptions processed over 12 months.  

Physicians are always looking for new ways to improve the patience experience, save time, and improve accuracy. And with the help of e-prescribing software, they’re able to do all of that – plus much more.

Not only is e-prescribing rapidly growing, but the technology that powers it is on the move as well. And with a variety of benefits – both for providers and patients – it’s natural to assume that this growth will continue well into the future.

State-mandated Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) are a vital resource to help protect patients, inform providers, and improve care.  Learn about new technology that can help you access them quickly to get the medication data you need in seconds.

Electronic prescribing, also known as E-prescribing, e-scripts, and e-Rx, has taken the world by storm over the past few years.As the name suggests, E-prescribing is the use of a computer, or mobile application, to generate, transmit, and fill a medical prescription.

E-Prescribing is growing rapidly, not just because the technology has improved, but because of the substantial benefits for patients and physicians. Every state in the U.S. now allows e-prescribing, including e-prescribing of controlled substances.

More than 1,000 Maryland prescribers are making more informed prescribing decisions since adopting DrFirst’s mobile medical management platform, iPrescribe, to consult the state’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) database.

Many states have strict mandatory prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) requirements. With these in place, states are able to manage and share an electronic database that tracks a patient’s controlled substance prescriptions.

The rule revises DEA regulations to provide practitioners with the option of writing prescriptions for controlled substances electronically. The regulations also permit pharmacies to receive, dispense and archive these electronic prescriptions.