Providers Process Nearly 3 Million Prescriptions via iPrescribe in 1 Year
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.
As the “digital prescription pad” for modern healthcare providers, iPrescribe replaces traditional methods like paper prescription pads, phone calls, and faxes. Instead, healthcare providers can safely and securely prescribe any drug from any location, with just a few taps on a smartphone. The use of iPrescribe has accelerated with the rapid growth of telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Healthcare providers understand that e-prescribing is safer for patients and more efficient for pharmacies and prescribers. Yet, providers often still turn to their prescription pads, phone calls, and fax machines when they don’t have convenient access to their office’s electronic medical record (EMR) system, or don’t have one,” said Colin Banas, M.D., DrFirst’s chief medical officer. “In fact, nearly half of Americans receiving a prescription during the pandemic said their doctor gave them a paper script or called or faxed the pharmacy, which is shocking because e-prescribing has been long recognized as the safest way to prescribe.”
Healthcare providers across the U.S. are taking advantage of iPrescribe’s capabilities, and many are sharing how it is saving them time and enhancing the patient experience.
Mark Komorowski, M.D., cites iPrescribe as a vital tool for staying connected with his patients: “iPrescribe goes everywhere I go. I can take care of patients at home or wherever I am.”
Nurse practitioner Steven Maly, APRN, FNP-BC, relies on iPrescribe both when he is away from his office EMR and during EMR downtime. “As a nurse practitioner caring for rehab patients, I find iPrescribe helpful when my patients have urgent needs for medications. Using iPrescribe, I can quickly send prescriptions to the pharmacy and see other medications the patient has been prescribed by both myself and other providers. This is extremely helpful when accessing my EMR would be difficult or impossible if I’m away from my computer or during EMR downtime.”