Affordable EPCS Systems

[GUH]

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I recently started moonlighting at a non-hospital setting with several patients on Schedule II substances. What is a good, affordable system for EPCS? The practice already has an EMR system and handles the billing so I don't need that. It looks like MDToolbox advertises a stand-alone system for $38/month. Does anyone have positive or negative reviews of this or other EPCS stand-alone systems? I tried looking around online but most vendors do not advertise their prices.
Thanks!

 

[Ironspy]

Drfirst/iPrescribe is free and works well.

I have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

 

[TexasPhysician]

Drfirst/iPrescribe is free and works well.

I have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Is there a free or low cost EMR that you use to mate with this? PracticeFusion was free, but now there is a monthly fee of about $99 (does include EPCS).

 

[Sushirolls]

Luminello

 

[TexasPhysician]

Luminello

How is Luminello an EMR with no e-labs?

 

[Sushirolls]

That is a weak area. They state there is possible lab integration from Quest, Labcorp, etc but no guarantees in the downloads. I've not bothered to pursue this in part I'm surround be lots of Big Box Shops where patients prefer to get their labs, and they've been mostly good about faxing back the results. So I'm not going to dictate patients go to a labcorp/quest or even consider doing my own lab draws. Not worth those hassles.

 

[Ironspy]

How is Luminello an EMR with no e-labs?

It’s a huge weakness. Not a big deal if you have a tiny number of high functioning patients needing labs but a deal breaker if you’re needing to fax/scan/upload multiple times per day. Also no way to trend labs even if you manually put everything into the emr.

 

[Sushirolls]

I can't think of anything besides inpatient vitals for detox needing to be trended graphcially, nice, but not needed. Possibly clozaril management? Even at that carry over (cut paste) the previous lab tests in each note.

So what in Psychiatry has copious amounts of lab tests that is overwhelming an outpatient practice that integrated labs are a must?

 

[TexasPhysician]

I can't think of anything besides inpatient vitals for detox needing to be trended graphcially, nice, but not needed. Possibly clozaril management? Even at that carry over (cut paste) the previous lab tests in each note.

So what in Psychiatry has copious amounts of lab tests that is overwhelming an outpatient practice that integrated labs are a must?

I order labs on 90% of new patients and then again yearly. My current EMR automatically adds labs to the EMR. Without it, I’d need to keep and maintain paper orders, rewrite with every lost paper, rely on fax machine to get results, print every result on paper, and then manually add to the paper chart or upload it. That’s a lot of man/woman hours on something easy to automate.