Drug Data for Clinical Decision Support

First,  if you are developing a new EMR  or application that requires inclusion of drug and medicine information,  don't delay the process of securing a drug data vendor.  With the new certication rules you are better off finding a vendor who is easy to work with,  flexible and supportive.  There are only a few drug data providers in the market,  so it shouldn't be difficult to idenitfy them.

Secondly,  pediatric and neonatal dose ranging checking is becoming more of a must everyday.  The web-based EHR company,  Practice Fusion,  released a study earlier this year where it has been shown that EHR's  are having a real impact on the decrease of infant mortality. This is great news in general and hats off to those EHR's that have elected to focus some of their development efforts on dose range checking.

As my colleague Matt Bennardo posted several months ago, "There are drug information vendors like Lexicomp that understand there is a vast world of difference between adults and children.  Lexicomp's durg information is trusted by dozens of EMR vendors to guide clincians in prescribing, fulfilling and admnistering drugs to patients of all types --- including children."

If you are the beginning of process of developing a new EMR  or looking to modify a current EMR, contact Lexicomp for some suggestions.