The Importance of Undergoing a Digital Transformation at Your Practice

By Robert McDermott President/CEO, iCoreConnect

With so many challenges facing practices—staffing shortages, for example—offices absolutely must implement digital tools to simplify practice management—as well as aid with efficiency, speed and accuracy in workflows. A bonus: these often lower costs.

This process is called a digital transformation, which often includes technology upgrades and software solutions that streamline, simplify, and often automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks.

Automations can save tens of hours a week.

Automation is often the first place to look when it comes to improving efficiency. Simply implementing modern cloud-based software for everyday tasks to fully automate parts of your business workflow can save tens of hours a week.

If your already-stretched team is working on outdated computer systems and performing manual procedures that should be automated, you’re facing compounded inefficiency at your practice. You’ll see some examples of automation in the next few sections.

ePrescribing speeds prescribing time, increases patient safety.

Different ePrescription softwares provide different features. But in addition to sending a prescription to your patient’s pharmacy, a solid solution will increase your speed and efficiency by:

• Autofilling patient information

• Offering “favorites” for prescription combos and pharmacies

• Connecting with your practice management software

• Enabling you to prescribe from any location on any device through cloud-based access

Streamlining your clinical workflow is gold. But with nearly a quarter of prescription errors attributable to illegible handwriting, a primary benefit of ePrescribing is its ability to improve the accuracy of prescriptions. Additionally, ePrescribing increases patient safety by:

• Checking the state’s PMP database, TX PMP AWARxE, to ensure you’re safely prescribing controlled medications

• Providing alerts and warnings for interactions and contraindications