Say you are a pharmacist filling an order for an adult male. During the eprescribing process, you get alerted that this prescription cannot be given to pregnant women--check. Another alert appears advising this drug cannot be given to children under 12 years old---check. And another, and another---check, check, check all day long! This situation is happening all over the country with pharmacists everyday. Alerts that are not needed for the given criterion should not be shown, this is key for providing excellent health care. How many drug information providers are making it a point to provide you with the solutions to circumvent this growing problem? Lexicomp has been working to allow filters by intended clinican, severity of warning, and special conditions associated to the alert.
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Very good point on alert fatigue regarding drug alerts. Very few EMRs are building tools to reduce alert fatigue and to make the healthcare practitioner more efficient, more effective and practice safer medicine. One reason is that the EMR developer needs help from the drug information provider. How does one triage these decisions is the question. Without a plan, process and approach toward drug alert triage the EMR developer cannot be expected to do it on their own. Lexicomp has released a new approach toward reducing alert fatigue for Black Box warnings. Few folks are aware of this release. It can improve safety.