HITECH Act Drug Qualifications

Here are some of the qualifications that drug reference and drug interaction data must meet to qualify:

-- Must allow for specific clinical decision support functions, including drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checking

-- Must have consumer-facing patient education materials

-- Must be compliant with the RxNorm (a medication list maintained by the National Library of Medicine)

-- Must include comprehensive 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

When looking for drug information that meets all these requirement, pick one that will partner with you to meet your needs, whether they be speed to market, budgetary, or customer service.

This is what one of Lexicomp's satisfied customers has to say:

"We spent months researching and investigating the competition. Lexi-Comp business partnering and licensing division gave us the tools we needed to test it in our application to assure our clinicians that we had a reliable and trustworthy source. Their responsiveness to inquiries and requests sold us on a solid partnership we could count on."

- Coletta Dorado, CEO of IntuitivEMR