The healthfinch Blog

At healthfinch, we talk a lot about optimizing the prescription renewal workflow. After all, it’s what we do best! There are many benefits to having a streamlined workflow, most notably being improved productivity,...

A recent Medscape survey asks readers, “Do you always follow clinical guidelines?” The survey stems from a 2017 case where an oncologist treated a patient based on guidelines provided at the time, which were later...

With another year coming to an end, it’s a great time to reflect on all that we’ve accomplished in 2019. This year was filled with many things to celebrate — new partnerships, new team members, and new developments...

Creating prescription renewal protocols can be difficult, but maintaining them is an even bigger challenge. As medicine evolves, guidelines change. Unless you have staffing devoted to monitoring the latest...

At healthfinch, we’ve seen health systems process prescription renewal requests in all kinds of ways. Some have providers reviewing all their patients’ renewals, others have a clinical team that triages them for...

To ensure efficiency, safety, and consistency, many healthcare organizations have protocols in place for various tasks that staff regularly encounter. Prescription renewal requests are one of those tasks. When built...

Many organizations are turning towards a delegation model in which some of their providers’ more routine tasks are processed by a centralized team rather than in the clinic. Doing so offers the best opportunity for...

Well-developed prescription renewal protocols have many benefits. They help enforce a standard of care across an organization, enable renewals to be delegated from providers to staff, and can help ensure patients...

Healthcare organizations have started adopting a team-based approach to patient care, in which two or more healthcare professionals work collaboratively to accomplish shared goals and high-quality care. With this...

1. Charlie’s name was inspired by Charles Darwin

When healthfinch was founded, our co-founders, Jonathan Baran and Lyle Berkowitz, MD, were inspired by Charles Darwin’s work on the evolution of the Galapagos...