Comprehensive Drug Database Use

Drug interactions, duplicate therapy, allergy checking, and other clinical decision alerts are an important part of clinical decision support systems.  There has been much emphasis in the past few years on implementation of these clinical alert systems.  With the federal government driving mandates for use of electronic medical records, the challenge of changing current workflows and getting physicians up to speed with CPOE has become much more apparent.  With physician adoption still low there is great opportunity for an EMR company to make their product stand out when it comes to clinical decision support. 

Lexi-Data, Lexi-Comp's comprehensive drug database, offers decision support content that can easily be integrated into various healthcare applications, including EMRs.  With a part of certification focusing on decision support and meaningful use criteria driving how these systems are used, EMRs can differentiate themselves by allowing their users to optimize how clinical decision support is used within their workflow. 

Lexi-Data allows for customization so end users can possess the flexibility to alleviate alert fatigue, provide more meaningful alerts, and overall, influence more relevant decision alerts within the workflow.  Lexi-Data has a flexible API that allows this customization. 

As important as clinical decision support systems are, that is only one part of the entire use for a drug database within an EMR application.  Lexi-Data also provides medication brand names, medication generic names, NDCs, drug lists, etc., and can serve as a comprehensive drug database.