Compatability can easily make or break drug database decisions when choosing information for an EMR, EHR, or HIS. Lexicomp's data is not only compatable with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and Access, but also provides so much more.
Lexicomp can provide:
- A top of the line IT team that treats customers as partners
- Specific clinical decision support functions, including drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checking
- Consumer-facing patient education materials
- Compliancy with the RxNorm
Contact
Lexicomp today to find out all we have to offer!
What is holding you back from easy implementation? Perhaps you have a laundry list of items or perhaps money is constraint. Either way, look to Lexicomp for an intuitive database design that will help you seamlessly integrate complex drug databases into your system.
Other items that Lexicomp can help check off your list:
- 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 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
So look around the market, investigate, but remember that Lexicomp can serve all your needs!
According to a recent
report from KLAS, "35% of all respondents are replacing their EHR systems and 43% of physician practices with more than 100 doctors are doing so." What does that mean for EHR or EMR vendors? More sales, but only if you are ready. What is keeping you from these customers? If its drug data, then consider partnering with a trusted leader in drug databases for clinical decision support systems.
Consider Lexicomp
Lexicomp can help by providing a medication list that includes both generic, brand name, and over-the-counter drugs. By providing drug interaction screening including drug-drug, dose range checking, and duplicate therapy screening, Lexicomp can help EHR vendors meet a number of Meaningful Use requirements. The Lexi-Data product delivered by Lexicomp is also mapped to RXNORM and contains patient education which is another check box on the Meaningful Use requirements list.
According to
John at
EMR and HIPPA, "My personal projection is that ONC should be really pleased if they achieve 50% EMR adoption by the end of the HITECH act (approximately 5 years). A number of really smart and involved people at HIMSS agreed with me on those numbers."
His other predictions include:
- Small practices have a much lower EMR adoption percentage as compared with large practices
- Specialists have a higher EMR adoption percentage than general medicine doctors
What is the best way to grab those small practices or specialists?
Make your EMR the most efficient and best value for them. There are lots of things to consider when building an EMR, but drug information adds value no matter what. Drug information is the foundation upon which safe decisions are made; decisions that involve pediatric dosage, drug interaction, drug classifications, and drug & medicine interactions.
Getting an EHR certified in meaningful use is supposed to have the end goal of improving the quality of patient outcomes. A goal for Stage 2 is to make health information available for patients readily after their discharge. Many hospitals are doing this through their websites, but how far are we from reaching those goals? According to PwC's Health Research Institute
report, putting patients into "meaningful use", not very close:
The PwC survey of 1,000 healthcare consumers found that:
- Half of patients said they call their physician's office or hospital for a paper record, and 11% said they don't know how to get their health record.
- Of those who access their medical record electronically, 34% share the information with primary care physicians and specialists.
- Only 13% of consumers said they'd been asked by providers what they think about EMRs, even though 56% said they'd be willing to talk about what they'd like in an EMR and how they'd like to use it.
What should you be doing to accomplish these goals? A good first step is to put quality, easy to read drug information in the hands of patients. Lexicomp not only provides the drug information needed by clinicians when treating patients, but also provides patient focused drug information that is written for the patient. Hospitals can provide this information through their site. Medication leaflets in up to 19 languages, patient level drug interaction analysis, and lists of medications by brand and generic. All this information can provide patients that extra needed value from your hospital to make them feel better about their experience and Lexicomp can provide the consumer information needed to build that site.
A recent
post of mine mentioned that EMR vendors should be going the extra mile or two beyond meaningful use requirements. After learning
how meaningful use incentive dollars may be on the GOP chopping block, this post rings true more than ever. At the end of the day hospitals want the MU dollars, but if they are no longer available, they will need an EMR that provides ROI in other ways.
When thinking about the development and end use of the EMR, patients are key. One way to increase ROI is to ensure patient safety and satisfaction.
The solution? An excellent drug database.
What does excellent entail? An excellent drug database allows for:
- Data for drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug-disease interaction screening
- Data to support duplicate therapy and dose range checking for pediatric and adult patients
- Data that allows users to generate patient-specific education handouts
Lexicomp is one of the few providers of an
excellent drug database. Come find out more at HIMSS 2011 at the Lexicomp booth #6653 or click
here!
According to a recent article from
American Medical News, "Total EMR spending, which is expected to grow from $1.9 billion in 2009 to $3.8 billion by 2015, is about twice the growth rate analysts are seeing over the health information technology market and the general IT market, said Judy Hanover, research director of provider IT strategies for the Framingham, Mass.-based market research company and co-author of the report."
What is the best way to ensure more clients? Make your EMR the most efficient and best value for them. There are lots of things to consider when building an EMR, but drug information adds value no matter what. Drug information is the foundation upon which safe decisions are made; decisions that involve pediatric dosages, drug classifications, drug and medicine interactions, and medicine lists.
If you happen to be in Orlando next week, be sure to stop by booth #6653 to learn more about a great drug database provider.
If you are building or purchasing an EHR with plans to meet meaningful use, why not consider going beyond the requirements?
Some reasons to do so may include:
- The Rules are Not Written in Stone: with the Stage 2 of meaningful use requirements out recently, the urgency of drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checking has increased. Companies need to be prepared to meeting meaningful use and then some to stay abreast to the changes.
- More options to integrate EHR into day to day hospital operations. A recent Healthcare IT News article shows how both the Bon Secours Health System and Geisinger Health System will be reaching above the meaningful use requirements to "move toward care coordination in the real world"
When looking for a drug vendor it only makes sense, then, to seek one that has the capability and support to move above the meaningful use threshold.
Lexicomp's drug references are ready for that task. There is also unique content not available elsewhere, like Lexicomp’s industry-leading Pediatric Dose Range Checking. Come learn more about Lexicomp and what they can provide at HIMSS 2011 show in Orlando, Florida February 21 - 23!
A report posted January 21, 2011 by
iHealthBeat states, "Nearly 90% of U.S. hospitals will need to install or upgrade their electronic health record systems during the next three years to comply with the federal government's meaningful use requirements." Hospitals have the option to purchase a "ready made" from a vendor or to make their own. No matter what the case, be sure your drug information complies with meaningful use. While you are at, you might as well go above the requirements.
There are several components to look for drug information:dose range checking, pediatric dosing, drug calculators, medicine interactions, dosage precautions, clinical guidelines, drug interaction software, duplicate therapy, drug classifications, generic drug names, drug nomenclature and more. These are critical paths for an EMR build. But it's not just about the information. It's about who you select as your partner and who have seamless APIs which makes your drop easier.
Meeting with these vendors in person may help in picking the right partner. The HIMSS 2011 show in Orlando, Florida February 21 - 23 will showcase many of these partners, Lexicomp included!
Last Monday I posted that there was opportunity for a piece of the growing EHR marketplace with 4,000 companies jumping to start the registration process. Another sign of growth has been reported today by
HealthData Management. According to a recent posting, "U.S. market for inpatient and outpatient electronic health records software was nearly $1.98 billion in 2009 and will steadily increase to $3.8 billion in 2015" as found in a new report by the research firm IDC Health Insights, Framingham, Mass.
These numbers can be further broken down in Ambulatory and Inpatient EHR electronic records software spending. Ambulatory EHR Spending by all types of providers totaled $633.5 million in 2009, rising in 2015 to $1.41 billion. Inpatient EHR Spending was $1.34 billion in 2009, rising in 2015 to about $2.4 billion.
With all this money being spent and more to come, it's not too late to get your software on the certification track with trusted drug data. Don't wait until the end of your development process to worry about: dose range checking, pediatric dosing, drug calculators, medicine interactions, dosage precautions, clinical guidelines, drug interaction software, duplicate therapy, drug classifications, generic drug names, drug nomenclature and more. These are critical paths for an EMR build. But it's not just about the information. It's about who you select as your partner and who have seamless APIs which makes your job easier.
You owe it to your product and your customer to make the right choice.
According to the
Government Health IT, as of January 6 there have been 4,000 healthcare providers that have registered for the EHR incentive program. Also, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokesman, Joseph Kuchler, “We expect that number will continue to increase daily.” With as many as 4,000 already started the registration process and more to follow, there are lots of opportunities to gain business. What will make your EHR stand out from the crowd?
Healthcare providers that need a complete EHR are looking for drug data that will enhance and improve patient safety. What better drug information than from a trusted company that's been developing content for over 30 years? Not only will Lexicomp provide all the basic drug data information such as: drug interactions; drug-allergy interactions, therapeutic dosages, drug classifications, dosage administration, pediatric drug information, and more; but Lexicomp will also provide the service and support to allow you to move quickly in the fast paced environment.
In a recent
study published by the journal,
Medical Care, hospitals using a EHR that alerted physicians to possible problems helped to improve overall patient outcomes, including:
- The percentage of heart disease patients receiving cholesterol-lowering medications rose from 87% to 93%
- The percentage of patients receiving pneumonia vaccinations increased from 80% to 90%
Although many of our other posts warn against alert fatigue or too many alerts. What is the solution? Alerts need to be meaningful to the people using them. Electronic health record (EHR) and other healthcare information system vendors need smart, current drug data that will enable their systems to drive patient safety and improve healthcare -- without generating a flood of annoying alerts that will only be ignored.
Lexi-Data is the foundation of Lexi-Comp's clinical decision support architecture. This product provides information that can drive relevant patient-specific 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, dose range checking (adult and pediatric) and more.
In a recent
report by PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute, CQ, it found that health care providers spent more than $88.6 billion in 2010 to implement EHR systems and other health IT projects. Are you an EHR company looking to get a piece of that $88 billion? If so, Lexicomp can help you get your EHR system to the market faster and with better data for clinical decision support. Whether you are seeking drug databases, drug nomenclature, duplicate therapy checking, or dosage range checking capabilities, Lexicomp has your solution.
Contact Lexicomp today and you'll be one step closer to launching your EHR system!
According to a Computer Sciences Corp survey posted by Fierce EMR, "90 percent of hospital executives count achieving Meaningful Use of EMR among their top two priorities." If you are part of this 90%, what are you doing to ensure your EMR's Meaningful Use Certification? A key factor to achieving certification is trusted, reliable, easy to use drug information. When you implement Lexi-Comp’s drug data and reference information, you will be one step closer to checking Meaningful Use off your list!
Lexi-Comp provides:
-Data for drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug-disease interaction screening
-Data to support duplicate therapy and dose range checking for pediatric and adult patients
-Data that allows users to generate patient-specific education handouts
New in November 2010! Lexi-Comp can help your EMR meet ONC’s “Submission to Immunization Registries” standard! We’ll provide you immunization-specific data (CVX and MVX codes) that enables healthcare providers and end users to electronically transmit a patient’s vaccination history to an official registry.
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