Meaningful Use and the EHR

How to Integrate a Drug Interaction Database

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by David White
With the recent changes regarding meaningful use of EHR, system vendors are faced with many clinical decision support challenges when developing new software applications.  One such challenge is how to easily integrate a drug interaction database into an existing EHR framework.  

To quickly overcome this obstacle, many EHR vendors are turning to Lexi-Comp for a drug interaction software solution.  Lexi-Comp has a comprehensive drug interaction database concerning drug-drug and drug-food interactions available through our integrated product, Lexi-Data.  Lexi-Data's drug-drug interaction API accepts as an input one or more drugs.  Drugs can be single ingredient agents or multi-ingredient agents and requests for drug interaction checking can be made for either generic drug names or brand names.

To get the drug interaction data that you need with an uncompromising level of customer service, trust Lexi-Comp to deliver.  Contact Lexi-Comp today to learn how you can quickly and easily integrate a drug interaction database into your EHR system.

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