I have had several comments asking for me to repeat several of my recent blog posts, so here they are:
The first one:
"In a few short years, Lexicomp has gone from being the provider of choice for
drug reference information to the vendor of choice for EMR development companies looking for a supplier of drug data to include in their product. Lexi-Data provides all of the standard drug information that one would expect from the other suppliers, but it also provides the best pediatric dosing information available. In addition to supplying the expected information such as drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions, adverse drug events, RxNorm mapping, generic drug lists, drug nomenclature, and more. Lexi-Data offers an incredibly easy to use data structure and API's and most importantly, Lexicomp is unparalleled in its customer service and providing assistance in the development process. If you are developing a new EMR and need a drug information supplier, make sure that Lexi is on your list."
The second: (enjoy)
"We live in a turbulent and fast changing world. What was good yesterday is not necessarily what is best for today. Where is Netscape? How about Alta Vista? Lotus is certainly history but how many of you remember Multiplan and before that VisiCalc? The changes occur quickly -- not like the phasing out of a buggy whip.
The same could be said about more and more EMR developers who are turning to Lexi-Data for their drug information. Lexi-Data just hit the scene a little more than two years ago. And how quickly it has grown and capturing a major part of new EMR development in need of drug information. Why so?
Is it about drug information quality? Is it about ease of integrating the APIs? How about quality of the
Pediatric Drug Information and drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions? Or is about the top quality customer support during the development and integration phase, where Lexicomp treats it customers like true partners?"
Needless to say, as you can imagine, it is about all of the above. If you haven't acted yet, it is about time.
It is estimated that approximately 7,000 deaths occur each year in the United States due to medication errors. Studies conclude that
e-prescribing is the solution to improved patient safety and reducing sky-rocketing medication costs.
Lexicomp understands that for most practices, moving from paper to an electronic medical record or electronic health records can a challenge. Lexicomp has the drug information foundation which was built for healthcare IT professionals. Lexicomp provides the drug reference and data content you need to get your system certified sooner. When you choose our Lexi-Data product, you'll get superior customer service, easy implementation, and timely updates.
Lexi-Data, Lexicomp's clinical decision support database is perfect for EMR vendors looking to meet a number of Meaningful Use requirements:
- Allows for specific clinical decision support functions, including drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checking
- Has consumer-facing patient education materials
- Is compliant with the RxNorm
- Include comprehensives reference information for the US including drug generic name, drug brand name, drug classifications, and eventually clinical dosage guidelines for calculating pediatric and adult doses
Lexicomp will be exhibiting at
HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas, from February 20 - 24. Stop by for a visit at
Booth #5134 and learn more about the choices you have in drug information databases!
In a few short years, Lexicomp has gone from being the provider of choice for
drug reference information to the vendor of choice for EMR development companies looking for a supplier of drug data to include in their product. Lexi-Data provides all of the standard drug information that one would expect from the other suppliers, but it also provides the best pediatric dosing information available. In addition to supplying the expected information such as drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions, adverse drug events, RxNorm mapping, generic drug lists, drug nomenclature, and more. Lexi-Data offers an incredibly easy to use data structure and API's and most importantly, Lexicomp is unparalleled in its customer service and providing assistance in the development process. If you are developing a new EMR and need a drug information supplier, make sure that Lexi is on your list.
Lexicomp's
drug interaction database has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years. Now used by hundreds of EMR, EHR, HIS and other healthcare vendors, it is the information behind medication reference and clinical decision support for tens of thousands of physicians.
What makes Lexicomp the preferred choice?
- Easier implementation when compared to other data sources
- Superior customer service for all customers, regardless of size
- Full support of Meaningful Use Stage 1 clinical decision support requirements
- New innovative features like patient education in multiple languages
- Flexible delivery, including robust APIs and web services
More and more healthcare information vendors are discovering that Lexicomp can save them development time, making the road to certification and market faster and smoother. Find out today if Lexicomp can do the same for you!
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!"
Among the Eligible Professionals who are going for federal incentive payments for Meaningful Use, podiatrists rank high among early adopters. iWatch news recently published an article (
http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/10/12/6941/podiatrists-have-their-foot-door), describing this observation.
Does your EHR meet the certification requirements established by ONC? Lexicomp can help by providing your system key
clinical decision support data required for certification. As an integrated component of your EHR, our transactional drug data and reference information support the following Stage 1 meaningful use and certification criteria from ONC's Final Rule.
Lexi-Data is the foundation of Lexicomp's clinical decision support architecture. This product provides clinical decision alerts and referential content to support sound treatment decisions in areas such as drug interaction checking (drug-drug and drug-food), drug allergy checking, therapeutic duplication checking, RxNorm Mappings, Drug Classifications, dose range checking (adult and pediatric) and more.
For years, Multum Lexicon was the source for researchers to get drug reference and
drug interaction data. But where can researchers now get medication lists, pharmaceutical monographs, drug-drug interactions, drug-allery interactions, and more?
Today, there is an enhanced and updated product built on the foundation of Multum Lexicon. It's Lexicomp's Lexi-Data transactional database. Lexi-Data provides drug names (brand name, generic name, and common abbreviations), therapeutic categories, drug classifications, indications, and standard coding such as NDC, J-Codes, and ICD-9. The data in Lexi-Data has been utilized by many universities and research institutions, including research on pharmaceutical policy and outcomes, aging, and more.
Multum is a registered trademark of Cerner Corp.
Patients are becoming more involved in their own healthcare, and are increasingly making use of patient portals and consumer-facing websites to do research, follow their progress, and even answer questions they might have previously posed to their physician. At the very least, they are using these sites to be more informed during visits to their care providers so they can get more value from those encounters.
All of this creates an opportunity for innovative developers to provide accurate, reliable, easy-to-understand information to patients via the web. One source for medication and clinical information that can be easily integrated into such sites is Lexicomp.
Lexicomp is a leading provider of drug reference, clinical reference, and patient education leaflets and materials to clinicians. Over a thousand hospitals use Lexicomp's information every day during patient encounters. The information available includes medication lists, drug monographs, drug interaction information (including interactions with common food and natural products), drug allergy information, patient education documents, dose adminstration, warnings, and more.
And Lexicomp's information can be easily integrated into your site in a variety of ways. You can choose to have an installed local database, or to use web services to pull information from Lexicomp's servers as needed. Contact Lexicomp today to find out how to populate your patient portal or consumer website with the information your users are looking for.
Many EMR vendors are scrambling to complete their products quickly so they can pass through the various certifying bodies (their choice about who they go to). Often overlooked early in the process is the importance of selecting the best drug information provider. Making the right selection early will save headaches later on.
It is not just a matter of drug data quality, but even more importantly about the structure of the data files and how easy those files are to work with. It's not just about the actual drug reference database, but about the ease of using various APIs and working seamlessly with the data provider. Lexicomp is quickly developing a stellar reputation in this market segment, as is demonstrated by our growing share of the market. There are many things that need to be considered by the EMR vendor in their search for the best provider to work with. Some of these include the quality of pediatric dosage database,
dose administation, patient education, Black Box Warning decision tree, and more. If you are at a decision point in the area of drug information, make sure you give Lexicomp a call.
One difficult aspect of
drug nomenclature is the complexity of drug concepts. Clinicians speak fluidly about these concepts, flowing from class-based terminology (penicillins) to individual drugs (penicillin) with ease. But drug classifications are not well standardized, and some systems blend pharmacologic concepts with chemical concepts. For example, consider a system which uses "beta-adrenergic receptor blockers" and "fluoroquinolones". One speaks to the pharmacologic target while the other refers to a shared chemical composition. Clinicians understand and interpret these differences, but electronic applications have more difficulty. RxNorm is an effort to standardize these naming conventions for an individual drug. These concepts are generally included in proprietary vocabularies, but there is little consensus among them. These may complicate efforts to establish comparisons on adverse drug events, allergy, and other comparative features among members of a class. Class level groupings are included in SnoMed and may provide a basis of standardization. For this reason efforts to standardize to a single class nomenclature are important and necessary.
For many years, the primary provider of drug reference and drug interaction information to researchers was Multum's Lexicon product. Today, there is also another product that is built on the foundation of Lexicon. That new product is Lexicomp's Lexi-Data Basic database.
In an earlier post, my colleague Ryan Smith explained how Lexi-Data Basic is now serving the needs of researchers:
"Lexi-Data Basic provides drug information that includes drug names (brand name, generic name, and common abbreviations), therapeutic categories, drug classifications, indications, and standard coding such as NDC, J-Cods, and ICD-9. The Lexi-Data Basic product is powered by the widely known and trusted Multum Lexicon product which has been utilized by hundreds of universities and institutions in the past. Multum is a registered trademark of Cerner Corp."
For more information on Lexi-Data Basic, click the links to fill out the form on this page.
Consumers are increasingly taking an active role in their own healthcare -- a trend which can only result in better care. A key source of information for these patients are consumer-facing websites that include clinical and medication information. But those sites must of course get their information from somewhere.
Lexicomp is one such provider of information to consumer-facing medical websites. They specialize in best-in-class pharmaceutical information -- including indications, interactions (with other drugs, natural products, and more), possible allergies,
dosing for adults and children, precautions and warnings, and more. Lexicomp also offers patient education leaflets in a variety of languages.
What's more, Lexicomp supplies its information in a variety of formats, including access through convenient web services. Web services allows you to pull specific Lexicomp information into your website without the hassle of maintaining an on-site database. This solution requires less development and maintenance, and means that your users always have up-to-date information. It's a perfect solution for consumer-facing websites looking to expand their content offerings. Contact Lexicomp to learn more today.
Pediatric dosing continues to be a major concern among clinicians in almost all practice settings. In fact, those who do not regularly treat children often have the most questions about proper dosing and treatment. One area where EMR, EHR, and HIS systems can meaningfully differentiate themselves is in providing this information.
Physicians, pharmacists and nurses know that children are not simply "little adults". Besides different dosage precautions, children may require different administration or routes -- and for some cases may receive completely different medications. Different patient education leaflets are also needed when treating children.
For these reasons, it's important to partner with a drug information vendor that is well regarded in pediatrics. Lexicomp is the drug reference vendor of choice among U.S. pediatric hospitals, and has specialized in this area for decades. Most clinicians will see children as patients at some point in their work, and they know that this vulnerable population requires special care. Using Lexicomp as a drug vendor can help put their concerns to rest and add value to their EMR, EHR, or HIS system.
I am reposting comments I made several months ago. Why? Because it is very important to build an EMR with the best pediatric dosing information possible. The implication are clear. So, if you are in the midst of building a new EMR or just want to include a link from your EHR over to Lexicomp Online's Pediatric Dose Range Checking, I would suggest reading this.
It might seem like an easy question, but the answer is neither obvious nor unimportant. Both pediatric and neonatal dose range calculators are receiving more focus and attention. This is serious business, with serious consequences. Last week, Matt Bennardo wrote a blog posting where he cited a study by Practice Fusion, where it has been shown that EHR's are having a real impact on the decrease in infant mortality. This is great news for those EHR's that have elected to use better dose range checking calculators.
As I said in a post last week. "All pediatric dosage calculators are not created equally. As Matt goes on to say, "But luckily there are drug information vendors like Lexicomp that understand there is a vast world of difference between adults and children -- and often between older children and neonates. Lexicomp's drug information is trusted by dozens of EHR vendors to guide clinicians in prescribing, fulfilling, and administering drugs to patients of all types -- including children."
Lexicomp provides both "machine readable" transactional information (geared towards specific populations) for use in clinical decision support, as well as "human readable" reference materials for clinicians and patients. Even Lexicomp's patient education leaflets are written with either adult or pediatric patients in mind.
If you are developing an EMR or looking to improve an EHR or HIS system, I would suggest reaching out to Lexicomp for some suggestions. Lexicomp is known for its pediatric and neonatal drug information.
Great drug reference databases do not grow on trees. If you are in the midst of developing or redesigning an EMR or EHR, then you already know this. There are lots of key questions to keep in mind throughout the decision process:
- How much will they help in setting up the API's?
- Do they have a specific pediatric dose range checking product?
- Do they have patient education leaflets?
- Are they available in foreign languages?
Take a look at the marketplace and see who can meet all your needs--check out Lexicomp early in the searching process and you will be pleasantly surprised.
For over 30 years, Lexicomp has been a trusted provider of drug information. Lexicomp can provide consumer websites or patient portals with drug reference content specifically designed for the consumer audience. When integrated into your websites or patient portals, our drug information will provide patients the knowledge they need to better understand their medications.
We provide
patient education information that allows patients to generate their own handouts for medications (available in 19 languages) and drug images that will enable patients to easily identify their medications based on appearance. We also provide a drug interactions database that enables patients to view information on drug-allergy, drug-drug and drug-food interactions.
Lexicomp has a Business Development Unit deadicated to actively pursuing relationships with companies that provide complementary products and services. These relationships allow for system integration and licensing of our content and applications. We welcome the opportunity to demonstrate how our content can enhance your system and help improve patient safety.
What agony when a clinician’s workflow is interrupted because they need to confirm clinical information such as a correct dose, REMS Information (Information about FDA approved
Risk
Evaluation and
Mitigation
Strategies is included in Medication Guide, REMS Components and Prescribing and Access Restriction fields), or to find and print patient education materials.
Our easy-to-implement Integration solutions integrate seamlessly within any hospital’s EMR, CPOE, pharmacy system, or Web portal, connecting clinicians directly Lexicomp’s trusted drug information.
Lexicomp has integration established with many of the well know health care information system providers such as Cerner, Epic, Eclipsys, Meditech, Siemens and GE which provides one-click access to Lexicomp drug reference content such as drug monographs, patient education material which is available in 18 languages, pediatric dosing, and more.
We have a number of options available for the integration of Lexicomp Online content which include web based URLs (APIs), Web Services, or XML Datasets.
Web API Solution
- Our Web API solution empowers integration of all Lexicomp content. Consistent API programming calls save time and allow clinicians to launch from their internal applications into our clinical databases, utilizing whatever delivery platform they choose.
Web Services
- Our Web Services platform is written for compatibility with Microsoft® .NET™ and Java™ programs. XML data can be obtained via standardized calls and is then processed and returned in real-time. Your application will retrieve and parse the content into your display, making complete customization a reality.
XML Datasets- If live Internet calls are not preferred, XML datasets are available for download from an FTP site and incorporated directly into the database.
Healthcare is changing more and more everyday. There is a revolution for consumers to charge themselves with quality drug information to be better informed. Many people do so by researching the internet for patient portals, hospital websites, among others.
If you are looking for drug information that can be easily integrated into a patient portal, reference site, or another consumer health website, Lexicomp offers a broad range of information, including adverse drug events, potential allergies, interactions, and more -- both for pediatrics and adults. Furthermore, Lexicomp has some of the best and most comprehensive
patient education materials and pamphlets in the industry.
If you are interesting in are providing your customers with the best possible information, contact Lexicomp today.
Don't get discourgaged when looking for a drug data partner. Whether you have a laundry list of items or a small budget, Lexicomp has an intuitive database design that will help you seamlessly integrate complex drug reference databases into your system, allowing for easy implementation.
Other items that Lexicomp can help check off your list:
- Consumer-facing patient education materials in 19 languages
- Compliance with the RxNorm
- Dosage range checking, for both adult and pediatric
And many more!
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