Drug Data for Clinical Decision Support

As Matt Bennardo pointed out, when EMR and EHR companies are under development and they are looking to include drug and medicine information, they must given proper consideration to the quality of the drug information, the ease of installation, and the level of customer service provided by the drug  data provider.  In order to meet the Meaningful Use standards,  the EMR and EHR developers now care more about drug and medicine information than ever before.   They now care about drug interactions,  drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions,  adverse drug events,  patient education pamphlets,  dose information,  pediatric dosing inforamation,  drug brand names and drug generic names.

Hundreds of Lexi-Data customers are now integrating Lexicomp reference and transaction drug information into their systems under development.   As Matt had said:

"Comprehensive data covers all decision support Meaningful Use requirements:

• Compatible with required standards like RxNorm
• Supports drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checking
• All data necessary for ePrescribing and CPOE
• Additional functionality like dose range checking

Fastest and easiest integration gets you to market faster:

• Easy-to-use APIs and web services -- you choose which you want
• Superior one-on-one customer service
• Most intuitive data structure and fastest implementation

New features set you apart from the competition:

• Black Box Warning filters to alleviate clinician alert fatigue
• Patient education available in 19 languages

Click the links on this page to find out more about Lexi-Data now!"