{"podcast":{"title":"Healthcare IT Today Interviews","slug":"healthcare-it-today-interviews-307487","podcast_index_feed_id":307487,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/2c6f3bc4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.healthcareittoday.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/7354873/7354873-1595258415054-aee5731aecf12.jpg","author":"John Lynn","episode_count":874,"summary":"Listen to the latest happenings in Healthcare IT in this series of interviews with leading experts in healthcare technology. Whether you're trying to understand EMR and EHR, healthcare communications, security and privacy, analytics, telehealth and telemedicine, and much more, these interviews will dive into what's really happening on the front lines of healthcare. Learn more at: https://www.healthcareittoday.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T00:18:58.883945+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/healthcare-it-today-interviews-307487"},"episode":{"title":"DrFirst Reduces Physician Burden Through Well-Designed Medication Management","slug":"drfirst-reduces-physician-burden-through-well-designed-medication-management","published_at":"2026-04-20T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/healthcare-it-today-interviews-307487/drfirst-reduces-physician-burden-through-well-designed-medication-management","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/healthcare-it-today-interviews-307487","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heathcareittodayinterview/episodes/DrFirst-Reduces-Physician-Burden-Through-Well-Designed-Medication-Management-e3hsek8","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/2c6f3bc4/podcast/play/118421576/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-14%2F422022693-44100-2-ddd8ee69f5059.mp3","summary":"Prescribing medication has become unfathomably complex these days, with rules interposed between the patient and physician by pharmacies, payers, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Drew Hunsinger, Executive VP, Corporate Strategy at DrFirst, points out that a single medication may have multiple indications (conditions for which it can be prescribed) and rules vary by indication. Colin Banas, MD, Chief Medical Officer, says that 90% of new medications are considered specialty medications with associated complex rules. Learn more about DrFirst: https://drfirst.com/ Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/","meta_description":"Prescribing medication has become unfathomably complex these days, with rules interposed between the patient and physician by pharmacies, payers, and phar…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1257,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/healthcare-it-today-interviews-307487/episodes/drfirst-reduces-physician-burden-through-well-designed-medication-management/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/healthcare-it-today-interviews-307487/drfirst-reduces-physician-burden-through-well-designed-medication-management.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}