For too long, there were few choices of drug information providers for EMR, EHR and HIS vendors. It's not only a question of the quality of the drug and medicine information provided, but even more so it is an issue of the:
1) Structure of the data (how easy is it to map to and identify?)
2) Availability and simplicity of the APIs offered by the vendor
3) How responsive is the drug information provider during the development period (this
will provide a major clue into how the long term relationship will work).
These might sound like simple things, but in the end, they are the most important things. Do your due diligence. Check around.
Lexicomp provides drug reference solutions to more than 1500 hospitals in the United States, along with all divisions of the U.S. Military. The Vancouver study released last year, rated Lexicomp Online as the most preferred drug database.
If you are looking for drug information or medicine data, Lexicomp can help by providing a medication list that includes both generic, brand name, and over-the-counter drugs. By providing drug interaction screening including drug-drug, dose range checking, and duplicate therapy screening, Lexicomp can help EHR vendors meet a number of Meaningful Use requirements. The Lexi-Data product delivered by Lexicomp is also mapped to RXNORM and contains patient education which is another check box on the Meaningful Use requirements list.
1) Structure of the data (how easy is it to map to and identify?)
2) Availability and simplicity of the APIs offered by the vendor
3) How responsive is the drug information provider during the development period (this
will provide a major clue into how the long term relationship will work).
These might sound like simple things, but in the end, they are the most important things. Do your due diligence. Check around.
Lexicomp provides drug reference solutions to more than 1500 hospitals in the United States, along with all divisions of the U.S. Military. The Vancouver study released last year, rated Lexicomp Online as the most preferred drug database.
If you are looking for drug information or medicine data, Lexicomp can help by providing a medication list that includes both generic, brand name, and over-the-counter drugs. By providing drug interaction screening including drug-drug, dose range checking, and duplicate therapy screening, Lexicomp can help EHR vendors meet a number of Meaningful Use requirements. The Lexi-Data product delivered by Lexicomp is also mapped to RXNORM and contains patient education which is another check box on the Meaningful Use requirements list.
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