| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.03.2025 | Cybersecurity and Innovation: The New Frontiers in Healthcare Technology | In the digital age, healthcare is a double-edged sword. On one side, technology offers unprecedented advancements in patient care. On the other, it opens the door to cyber threats that can jeopardize sensitive data and patient safety. The r... |
| 03.03.2025 | DrFirst Recognized for Enabling Technology Leadership in Healthcare by Frost & Sullivan | Leading the Way in Healthcare Innovation Across the Medication Journey
SAN ANTONIO, March 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- DrFirst, a leading innovator in healthcare technology, has been honored with the prestigious Enabling Technology Leadership Aw... |
| 19.01.2025 | 'Corporate jail': Teleworkers in the US don't want to turn back | SAN FRANCISCO: For Curtis Sparrer, a work-from-home evangelist, an office is nothing less than a "corporate jail".
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic sent workers scrambling for home, laptops under their arm, Sparrer methodica... |
| 03.09.2024 | BoomerangFX Expands Software and Marketing Solutions into the Philippines and Puerto Rico, Signaling Focused Growth in Asia and Latin America | Following strong growth in the USA, Canada, and Australia, BoomerangFX enters Asia and Latin American markets to meet rising global demand for Aesthetic Medicine, Holistic Wellness, Women's Health, and Specialty Vision Care.
MIAMI, Sept. 3,... |
| 04.07.2024 | Gen AI’s impact on healthcare: Cutting-edge applications (and their challenges) | We want to hear from you! Take our quick AI survey and share your insights on the current state of AI, how you’re implementing it, and what you expect to see in the future. Learn More
In just a short period of time, AI has demonstrated viab... |
| 19.04.2024 | DrFirst buys prior authorization automation platform Myndshft | This will allow DrFirst to accelerate its growth in the specialty medication space
Managing prior authorization (PA) is a significant burden on medical practices because of time-consuming manual processes and lack of integration with electr... |
| 18.04.2024 | DrFirst Acquires Myndshft to Expedite Access to Specialty Medications and Reduce Burden on Providers | What You Should Know:
– DrFirst has announced a strategic acquisition of Myndshft Technologies, Inc., an end-to-end real-time medical benefits and automated prior authorization (PA) software-as-a-service (SaaS).
– Myndshft software-as-a-ser... |
| 11.04.2024 | VieCure Streamlines Cancer Care with Integrated E-Prescribing and Medication Management | What You Should Know:
– VieCure, a leading cancer care company, announced today that it’s integrating DrFirst’s e-prescribing and medication management solutions into its clinical decision support system.
– VieCure is a well-established poi... |
| 22.12.2023 | Goodbye WebMD: Will AI Now Replace Internet Research for Self-Diagnosis? | What You Should Know
– As Americans set their sights on a healthier 2024, a new survey by DrFirst’s iPrescribe app reveals some interesting trends in health priorities and concerns.
– While traditional resolutions like exercising more and l... |
| 29.06.2023 | Roundups: 22 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships | Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. This ... |
| 12.05.2023 | 14 Financial Implications Of Market Entry And Business Expansion | getty |
| 23.03.2023 | 17 Execs Share How Health IT Can Address Clinician Burnout, Staffing, & Capacity | Clinician shortage has reached a new level of urgency as we face rising demand and healthcare costs, according to a recent Accenture report. Healthcare workers are increasingly burned out and leaving the industry altogether in droves. Those... |
| 01.02.2023 | DrFirst Acquires Diagnotes | DrFirst, a Rockville, MD-based healthcare technology company, acquired select assets of Diagnotes, an Indianapolis, IN-based provider of a secure messaging and care coordination platform.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The acquis... |
| 07.12.2022 | 16 Practical Steps That Can Protect A Business During A Recession | A recession can be extremely damaging to a business—especially a newer small business—as it means that customers and clients may be spending less even as business costs are rising. Some financial experts believe the U.S. is likely to see a ... |
| 18.07.2022 | Executive Roundtable: Can Innovation Alleviate Clinician Burnout? | The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory about clinician burnout cited numerous societal, cultural, structural, and organizational causes—including excessive workloads, administrative burden, and lack of organizational support. The potent... |
| 29.06.2022 | How To Get Remote Employees To Buy Into The Company’s Purpose | “Purpose” has become a buzzword in the business community in recent years, and for good reason. Purpose-driven companies have more engaged and motivated workforces, more satisfied customers and happier shareholders, which often translates i... |
| 06.06.2022 | 14 ‘Unsexy’ Career Fields That Can Teach Valuable Marketing Lessons | Every comms pro has to launch their career somewhere. For many, that means starting out in a boring, ho-hum space you may have never envisioned yourself in just to gain crucial work experience. |
| 24.05.2022 | AZZLY®, Inc. Earns Honorable Mention in DrFirst’s 2022 Healthiverse Heroes Awards | AZZLY®, Inc. Earns Honorable Mention in DrFirst’s 2022 Healthiverse Heroes Awards. Second Annual Awards Honor Healthcare Organizations That Use Innovative Technology to Break Through Information Silos We selected DrFirst as our electronic p... |
| 20.12.2021 | 11 Tech Trends That Will Impact Professional Communications In 2022 | Much of a professional communicator’s work depends on tech that helps companies communicate with their stakeholders, create awareness and drive conversions among consumers, and track the results of their efforts. While every industry is bou... |
| 26.10.2021 | Digital.com Announces Best E-Prescribing Software of 2021 | SEATTLE (PRWEB) October 26, 2021
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best e-prescribing software of 2021. The top-ranking solutions were selected based... |
| 12.07.2021 | Startups and newcomers disrupting primary care | Vator and UCSF will be holding an event in November called "Primary Care and the New Medical QB"
Primary care physicians are the gateway for people to access their care; no matter what the issue, a patient is most likely to see th... |
| 16.05.2021 | Healthcare Technology Solutions Company DrFirst Raises $50 Million | DrFirst, a health technology pioneer, announced it closed a $50 million equity investment from Sixth Street Growth. These are the details.
DrFirst, a health technology pioneer, announced it closed a $50 million equity investment from Sixth ... |
| 14.05.2021 | DrFirst Raises $50M in Equity Funding | DrFirst, a Rockville, Md.-based health technology company, raised $50m in equity funding.
Sixth Street Growth made the investment. Following Sixth Street’s previous $35m investment and another $50m from Goldman Sachs Growth, both in 2020, D... |
| 13.05.2021 | Health tech company DrFirst nabs $50M to grow product suite | DrFirst, a company that offers a range of health technology solutions, recently closed a $50 million equity investment from Sixth Street Growth, a part of global investment firm Sixth Street.
This latest investment, announced Wednesday, bri... |
| 12.05.2021 | DrFirst raises $50M to enhance its telehealth and recordkeeping capabilities
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| 12.05.2021 | DrFirst raises $50M to solve interoperability in healthcare | The company has now raised $135 million over the last year
Interoperability might be a buzzword in healthcare, but that doesn't mean it isn't important: thanks, in large part, to electronic health records (EHRs), approximately 30% of the wo... |
| 06.05.2021 | DrFirst’s SmartSuite Wins ‘AI Innovation Award’ in 2021 MedTech Breakthrough Awards Program | “SmartSuite AI is built on the principle that ‘it’s better to give no answer than to give the wrong answer.’ With higher-quality and structured data, the EHR can more accurately trigger critical safety checks, such as drug interactions and ... |
| 24.02.2021 | Insights on the Medication Adherence Systems & Technologies Global Market to 2025 - Players Include Abiogenix, Actualmeds & Adheretech Among Others - ResearchAndMarkets.com | DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 24, 2021--
The "Medication Adherence: Systems, Technologies and Global Markets 2021" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
This report is an analytical business tool whose primary... |
| 15.01.2021 | Nominations Open for New Healthiverse Heroes Award | |
| 11.01.2021 | DrFirst Passes 100 Million Real-Time Price Transparency Checks Informing Providers and Patients About Prescription Costs | |
| 08.01.2021 | 15 Smart Ways To Create The Most Effective Internal Newsletters | With the right team members and strategy behind it, a newsletter can be a solid communication tool for an organization, both as an external marketing instrument and internally. What does it take to turn a company newsletter into an efficien... |
| 27.10.2020 | New study: nearly a quarter of patients admit to multitasking during telehealth visits | Patients are scrolling social media, texting, driving and drinking while talking with their doctor
Of all technologies, telehealth has probably been the space most positively effected by the COVID pandemic. Not only did the amount invested ... |
| 12.01.2020 | As healthcare’s unsung heroes, pharmacists deserve more recognition | When a medical assistant in a physician’s office delivers similar services, payers compensate the provider. That’s not the case with pharmacists – aka Doctors of Pharmacy, who today earn advanced degrees that often are followed by clinical ... |
| 27.04.2019 | Maryland-Based E-Prescribing Company DrFirst Structures New $17 Million Commercial Financing Facility With SunTrust | Rockville, Maryland-based DrFirst Structures is the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions announced it has structured a new $17 million commercial financing facility from SunTrus... |
| 24.04.2019 | DrFirst Structures $17M Commercial Financing with SunTrust Banks | DrFirst, a Rockville, MD-based provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions, structured a new $17 million commercial financing facility with SunTrust Banks, Inc.
The financing extends DrFirst’s strategi... |
| 17.05.2018 | DrFirst helps St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Oswego Health improve provider collaboration | Through Connected Care Communities, doctors, pharmacists and nurses within each system can communicate. This means providers across facilities within each network can exchange patient medication history information and facilitate referrals,... |
| 06.03.2018 | HIMSS18 Day 2 Coverage Highlights & Summary | Google Unveils New Cloud Healthcare API to Address Healthcare Data Interoperability
Google unveils their new Cloud Healthcare API, which addresses the significant interoperability challenges in healthcare data. The new API will provide a ro... |
| 14.09.2017 | UnitedHealthcare and DrFirst set out to change the drug prescribing experience | The tool gives physicians who are prescribing a medication exact cost information based on the patient’s benefit plan. PreCheck MyScript provides prescribers with a patient’s insurance coverage details and pharmacy information. On top of th... |
| 04.06.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 6/4/16 | Salesforce bought Demandware for $2.8B; Vista acquired Marketo for $1.8B; Snapchat purchased Seene
Salesforce acquired Demandware, a provider of enterprise cloud commerce solutions. The deal is worth approximately $2.8 billion, valuing Dema... |
| 25.03.2016 | N.Y. state mandate for e-Rx of controlled substances takes effect; What’s the climate like? | The New York law is meant to cut down on prescription drug abuse and drug diversion by doctors and patients alike. In fact, the mechanism is called I-STOP, for Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing. It’s part of the state’s official... |
| 03.03.2016 | When will the pager die in healthcare? | Taking the in-your-face approach is DrFirst, a Rockville, Maryland-based vendor with roots in e-prescribing technology. The company has branched out to include secure messaging, a much better alternative than paging.
DrFirst enlisted Dr. Zu... |
| 16.01.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 1/16/16 | Microsoft bought Event Zero; Bloomberg acquired Netbox Blue; Distil Networks purchased ScrapeSentry
Beijing Kunlun Tech, a Chinese gaming company, acquired a majority stake in Grindr, the social network dating app aimed at gay men. It bough... |
| 19.10.2015 | DrFirst Pulls In $25M to Fuel E-Prescribing, Medication Adherence | DrFirst, a provider of healthcare IT solutions has secured $25 million in equity financing from Goldman Sachs to accelerate its sales and marketing resources, as well as its development resources for both existing and new products, and for ... |
| 17.10.2015 | DrFirst Secures $25M Financing |
ROCKVILLE, MD, DrFirst, a leading provider of healthcare IT solutions, on Thursday announced it has secured $25 million in equity financing from Goldman Sachs.
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| 15.10.2015 | DrFirst gets $25 million from Goldman Sachs | The Rockville, Md.-based healthcare IT company DrFirst announced on Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in equity financing from Goldman Sachs. This rounds out a total of $42 million in financing raised over the past year.
DrFirst has ... |
| 15.10.2015 | DrFirst Secures $25M in Equity Financing | DrFirst, a Rockville, Md.–based provider of healthcare IT solutions, secured $25m in equity financing.
Goldman Sachs made the investment.
The company, whih has raised $42M in the past year, including a $5M investment commitment from Savano ... |
| 11.10.2015 | New Money: These DC Companies Raised Millions This Week | Like this? Get a daily dose of D.C.-area funding news in The Beat. Sign up here.
Here are all of the tech funding deals out of the Washington, D.C., area this week. We’ll be updating this post as more news comes out.
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| 02.09.2015 | DrFirst Secures $12M Credit Facility with SunTrust Bank | DrFirst, a Rockville, MD-based provider of healthcare IT solutions, secured a $12m credit facility with SunTrust Bank.
The company will use the funds to expand its sales and marketing resources, as well as its development resources for both... |
| - | DrFirst helps St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Oswego Health improve provider collaboration | DrFirst, a vendor focused on e-prescribing and clinical data sharing, has launched Connected Care Communities, a service that assists healthcare providers in better collaborating with each other and with their patients.
Currently, two syste... |
| - | UnitedHealthcare and DrFirst set out to change the drug prescribing experience | Price transparency: It’s a crucial part of any industry, and healthcare is no exception. From a patient perspective, knowing the price tag on medications is particularly significant.
With that in mind, Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHeal... |
| - | As healthcare’s unsung heroes, pharmacists deserve more recognition | Patients may not realize all the ways pharmacists work with them to improve health. But in reality, pharmacists are unsung healthcare heroes who make essential contributions to the delivery of care.
Pharmacists do more than fill prescriptio... |
| - | When will the pager die in healthcare? | Lots of people in health IT know the joke. Only two types of people still use pagers: doctors and drug dealers — and drug dealers upgraded years ago.
Sadly, the pager still manages to live in healthcare. Fortunately, some at HIMSS16 in Las ... |
| - | DrFirst Raises $50M in Follow-On Equity Investment, Totals $135M | What You Should Know:
– DrFirst, a provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions, announced today the closing of a $50 million equity investment from Sixth Street Growth, a leading global investment firm... |
| - | N.Y. state mandate for e-Rx of controlled substances takes effect; What’s the climate like? | After a year’s delay, electronic prescribing of controlled substances — and all prescription drugs — becomes mandatory in New York state on Sunday. It’s the first state to have such a law that’s actually enforceable.
“Minnesota mandated it ... |
| - | Health tech company DrFirst nabs $50M to grow product suite | DrFirst, a company that offers a range of health technology solutions, recently closed a $50 million equity investment from Sixth Street Growth, a part of global investment firm Sixth Street.
This latest investment, announced Wednesday, bri... |
