Maximize Business with Electronic Processing

Maximize Business with Electronic Prescribing

By: Robert McDermott, President & Chief Executive Officer

It’s not every day the dental industry celebrates the arrival of a new law. This year, you started using electronic prescriptions for controlled substances containing an opioid. And, if you received a waiver postponing the switch from paper to electronic, the time is nearing for you to take action. If you view Oklahoma’s electronic prescribing law as a lead domino, the many dominoes that follow each represent opportunities to increase the speed of your operation and reduce current inconveniences to your patients.

Consider examining the literal monetary cost to the time consumed by you, your staff and your patients just to navigate the current paper system. There are calls to and from pharmacies, plus time spent looking up drug information on websites or in reference books. Patients may leave the appointment without their prescription. Adherence drops when a patient feels inconvenienced when dropping off or waiting to pick up prescriptions. The list goes on.

Every minute spent by you and your team can be calculated into a direct cost based on wages alone. However, when you consider second and third-order effects of interrupted workflow, the indirect costs grow even greater. Add these costs on top of the dangers of unintended interactions (or undetected prescription abuse) and the weight of the paper system really starts to show itself. Compliance with the law is just one benefit of e-Prescribing. Speeding up your workflow is key, so look for the following functions in an e-Prescribe software and make sure they are included in the flat subscription rate.

Prescribe on Your Office Computers, Laptop, Tablet or Phone

A truly comprehensive cloud e-Prescribing solution allows you to e-Prescribe from desktops and laptops at no additional cost, from any location, any time.

Integrate with Your Practice Management System (EHR)

With true integration, your EHR populates your patient’s information directly from your system into your e-Prescribing software, eliminating duplicate work.

Single-Click Access to the Oklahoma Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP)

The national average duration to access a state PMP website is more than four minutes and 50 clicks. However, a comprehensive e-Prescribing cloud software that is properly integrated to your EHR can reduce this to one or two clicks.

This is by no means a comprehensive list but it does shed light on opportunities to speed up your workflow, protect your patients and improve profit through productivity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Robert McDermott is President and Chief Executive Officer of iCoreConnect, an award-winning provider of secure cloud-based communications and productivity software for high compliance industries, most notably in dentistry.

During McDermott’s first six months on the job, he met with more than 2,000 dental and medical professionals around the country. Every one of iCoreConnect’s cloud-based services, from our practice management software and HIPAAcompliant email to our ePrescription tool, are designed on the input of those practicing doctors.

Because of McDermott's commitment to the customer and product excellence, iCoreConnect was named one of the United States’ Top 10 Encryption Providers by Enterprise Security Magazine. iCoreExchange, the company’s HIPAAcompliant email, was named one of Dental Products Report’s Top 50 Products. Additionally, iCoreConnect was honored as a Top 10 Dental Solution by Healthcare Tech Outlook.

iCoreConnect is an ODA Rewards Partner with expertise in cloudbased technologies to improve and protect your practice. ODA members receive special discount pricing on iCoreRx-empowered ePrescription service. Add the +PMP function to simplify your mandatory prescription check with one-step, real-time access to Oklahoma PMP AWARE. Visit iCoreConnect.com/Oklahoma, or call 888.810.7706.