7 Benefits of Mobile E-Prescribing with iPrescribe
Nowadays, nobody wants to be stuck behind a desk to get work done. We’re all mobile—and our work needs to move along with us. If you aren’t using a mobile app for e-prescribing, it’s time to get moving! The benefits of iPrescribe are numerous, but these seven are real game-changers:
1. Mobile e-prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS)
Before iPrescribe made mobile EPCS a possibility, you had to be in front of your electronic health record (EHR) on the desktop in your office to send controlled substance prescriptions. If a patient needed a refill for pain or anxiety medication over the weekend, he or she had to wait until Monday or longer. Those days are gone!
With iPrescribe, you can now send e-prescriptions for controlled and non-controlled drugs from your smartphone or tablet wherever you are. That means your post-op patient, cancer patient, or sickle cell patient who has run out of medication can get immediate support.
2. Quick and easy access to your state’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP)
Every provider has experienced the disjointed process of checking the state database before prescribing opioids. Previously, this involved leaving the prescribing workflow, going to the state website, authenticating with that website’s credentials, entering the patient information in a less-than-intuitive form, waiting for results, then returning to the EHR workflow.
The process was time-consuming and cumbersome. But no longer. iPrescribe gives you easy access to your patient’s history from the PDMP database in the app, within your workflow—without opening a new window or signing into a separate system—and gives you a green light to prescribe or a caution depending on the patient’s history of controlled substance prescriptions. It’s light years easier, and helps you make better-informed clinical decisions while protecting patient safety.
3. Real-time, accurate view of prescription costs
The high cost of prescriptions can be a tremendous barrier to medication adherence for patients. With iPrescribe, you can see your patients’ out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions and therapeutically equivalent alternatives based on their insurance benefits.
This price transparency within the prescribing workflow allows you to prescribe medicine the patient can afford, which improves adherence, avoids “sticker shock” for expensive medications at the pharmacy counter, and prevents time-consuming changes after the pharmacist checks the patient’s benefits.
Say goodbye to prescription abandonment and avoid “death by 1,000 clicks,” which contributes to clinician burnout.
4. Medication history on demand
The ability to see a complete medication history during an office visit or telehealth session is essential to keeping patients safe. Adverse drug events (ADEs) and allergic reactions can cause serious complications.
iPrescribe collects a patient’s medication history from Surescripts and other proprietary DrFirst sources so you can view the most complete history in a patient’s profile. It also keeps a record of every prescription you send in the app, accessible with just a quick tap.
5. Intuitive, award-winning user interface across all platforms
Don’t want to learn the ins and outs of a complex software program? You don’t have to! iPrescribe has been recognized for its intuitive interface, so if you can tap your way around an app on your Apple iPhone, Android smartphone, or tablet, you can write prescriptions with iPrescribe.
Awarded the 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award for Best New Technology Solution, iPrescribe is an easy, convenient way to send prescriptions in seconds.
6. Advanced encryption for strong security
iPrescribe uses the latest technology to keep information secure when it’s transmitted from your mobile device to the pharmacy. And because iPrescribe is 100% cloud-based, data is never stored on your smartphone or tablet. That means even if your phone is stolen or hacked, patient data remains secure on our servers.
Rest assured, iPrescribe is DEA-compliant and audited for security controls around controlled substances, and our technology has a long history of meeting and exceeding compliance standards.
7. Rapid enrollment, setup, and support
Download the iPrescribe app in seconds and get set up in minutes without buying or installing any hardware or changing your normal workflow. While some systems take days or hours to verify your identity, the iPrescribe process requires less than 15 minutes via ID.me, a national leader in identity-proofing. If you do need support, DrFirst has a team available to help.
So what are you waiting for? Get iPrescribe and get moving!