One of the most common comments that I hear from users of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems is associated with “alert fatigue” from unwelcome drug interaction notifications. Many users tell me that they are flooded with unavoidable but unnecessary alerts that interrupt their workflow, decrease productivity, and make the important alerts harder to see. Clinicians find themselves clicking through the alerts as quickly as possible which defeats the purpose of clinical decision support.
In today's fast-paced healthcare industry, 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 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.
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