EMR Companies Need Help Integrating Drug Interaction Databases

There is a bevy of EMR companies jumping into the marketplace. The mad scramble is on. The scrum has begun. Disruption breeds opportunity. Government mandates breed confusion. Are you an EMR company with a product under development? Unfortunately it’s not just about developing your product and looking for customers or partners. There could be more roadblocks along in areas that you didn’t even anticipate.

How familiar are you with the requirements for Meaningful Use? How familiar are you about the certification process that flows from the new government mandates? In the current situation, familiarity doesn’t even bring clarity -- especially in areas that are not in your bailiwick.

What you know best is the driving force behind your entrepreneurial endeavor. Knowledge about drug data and drug interaction databases is likely not in the purview of your expertise. You can’t be good at everything! But ignorance in this situation – particularly in the area of drug interaction databases - could cause great delay or disruption to your development process. Don’t wait too long before calling in the drug database cavalry. Integration of this data into your system is critical to both your finished product as well as meaningful use certification.

There are only a few drug data providers out there. You should be looking at Lexi-Comp or Multum if you want to get it done right and for the right price. Remember, it’s about the data, but it’s also about whom you work with and whom best can lead you through the process, providing the level of customer service you need and deserve to get to market quickly.

Lexi-Data offers medication decision support that helps meet the needs of clinical decision support. It provides the drug data needed to build drug, drug interaction checking, drug disease alerts, duplicate therapy alerts and dose range checking into EMRs. With our industry leading SDK and APIs, our drug data is easily integrated into EHRs to help with certification. Our SDK and our advanced API will help EHRs get to market fast and implementation teams will save time, allowing them to focus on more involved development needs. The flexible pricing model will work for smaller companies who are on the early edge of the development curve. Lexi-Data and its dedicated support team offers the flexibility to grow and enhance your EMR as it develops and matures.