In order to accomplish meaningful use of EHR, you must develop the product for the clinical end user. Lexi-Comp recognizes that different types of individuals want and need different types of drug nomenclature. A display list of drug names for consumers might look very different than a display list for pharmacists or a display list for physicians. Lexi-Data's drug classifications and names are intended to allow organizations great flexibility in constructing medicine lists for different purposes and for different types of users.
Whether you are an EHR vendor working with Surescripts for an ePrescribing module or you need the full spectrum of clinical decision support tools, Lexi-Comp can provide the drug data solutions for your success.
Lexi-Comp can assist EHR vendors in meeting several aspects of clinical decision support required for certification. Content areas where Lexi-Comp can help include: reference content, medication lists, drug-related decision support, and support for prescription writing.
Referential content- Provides reference information for ordering / prescribing medications
- Allows users to access and review medication information, including drug monographs and patient education material
- Provides information on dosing adjustments for renal impairment
- Identifies age-based warning / Beers criteria medications
Medication lists
- Each drug name and drug product are distinguished by unique identifiers / drug nomenclature which are mapped to other standard drug vocabularies in RxNorm
- Allows searching for medications by generic name, brand name, or therapeutic class
Drug-related decision support- Provides content for screening medication orders for allergy and drug interactions
- Facilitates drug interaction checking
- May be used to create medication dosing alerts including dosage range checking and dosage precautions
Support for prescription writing- Supports ePrescribing by providing data to define dosage form, route, frequency and strength
- Provides a "starter set" of common orders to facilitate Eprescribing
Whether it's drug nomenclature or ePrescribing, Lexi-Comp can be your partner to developing meaningful use of EHR.
Now more than ever, your work as an EHR vendor depends on providing clinicians easy and seamless clinical decision support including drug databases, drug interactions, dosage range checking, and dosage calculators.
Lexi-Comp can help you achieve your objectives by allowing for quick implementation of data into your EMR, streamlining the certification process and decreasing the time it takes for your system to hit the market. Lexi-Comp ensures your clinicians have access to the best drug information possible, while providing easy implementation tools, flexible data environments, and the superior customer service that your developers need.
In an effort to promote quality, safety, and efficiency through electronic health record (EHR) technology, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have proposed language defining meaningful use of EHR technology. This new technology is designed to enhance EHR systems with clinical decision support that helps healthcare professionals with drug lists, medication dosing, medication interactions, dosage range checking, and dosage administration.
To be considered a meaningful user of an EHR system three basic requirements must be met: use a certified EHR in a meaningful manner; the EHR is connected to allow for electronic exchange of health information for improving the quality of patient care; and the submission of clinical quality measures.
As EHR vendors continue to make progress on the meaningful use of EHR, new definitions of the term will certainly be introduced.
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