St. John Providence - Partners in Care
St John Providence Health System
Managed Care Department
SJH Corporate Services Building
28000 Dequindre
Warren, MI 48092
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Why Dr. First Rcopia?
DrFirst's electronic prescription management system, Rcopia, has been awarded the prestigious Surescripts Gold Solution Provider certification for four consecutive years, plus 12 other awards. Rcopia allows physicians to start with e-prescribing and get comfortable with an electronic workflow in their practice. Rcopia is widely integrated with over 130 EMR/EHR systems.
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For physicians and office staff:
- Streamline Practice Workflow. Create practice efficiencies and increase productivity through electronic medication orders, renewals, access to clinical alerts and decision support tools and formulary checking.
- Save Time. Allows a practice to provide a higher level of patient service and safety while saving time.
- Save Money. An MGMA study recently concluded that electronic prescribing results in average savings of 336.7 hours and $15,769 per full time equivalent (FTE) physician.
- Improve Patient Safety. Access your patient’s benefits data, co payments, formulary, and lower cost alternatives, medication history ensures that duplications are avoided and drug interactions are captured. Rcopia's database can provide allergy and food-drug interactions as well as contraindication alerts. Reduce medication errors with use of formulary checking (e-prescribing).
For your patients:
- Happier Patients. Provides lower cost alternatives, medication history ensures that duplications are avoided and drug interactions are captured.
- Save Time. Forgot to request a prescription? Any refill request can be easily routed electronically, eliminating any chance of lost telephone messages and delayed responses.
- Safety. Provide allergy and food-drug interactions as well as contraindication alerts.