Unanswered questions around meaningful use

Standard Ambulatory EHR Criteria

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Ryan Smith
Lexi-Comp's transactional drug data and reference information supports various components of Stage 1 meaningful use and certification criteria from ONC's Final Rule, specifically the implementaiton of electronic clinical decision support rules (drug-to-drug and drug allergy contraindication checking) based on the data elements included in: problem list, medication list, demographics and laboratory test results. 

Lexi-Data, Lexicomp's clinical decision support database, will help you meet several aspects of clinical decision support required for certification. Here's how:

Drug Interaction Data - we'll provide your system data that enables clinicians to screen for drug interactions, including drug-allergy, drug-drug and drug-food

RxNorm Mapping - we promote interoperability through mapping to industry standard RxNorm 

Drug Reference Data - integrate drug reference information, such as drug images and black box warnings, into your system

Patient Education Data - we provide patient education information that allows users to generate patient-specific handouts for medications (available in 19 languages), and conditions and procedures (available in English and Spanish)

Dose Range Checking - we provide data that enables clinicians to receive dosing alerts for medications, including limits for pediatric patients

Lexi-Data is designed for easy implementation. Our intuitive database design will help you seamlessly integrate complex drug databases into your system. 

Comments for Standard Ambulatory EHR Criteria

Thursday, March 10, 2011 by David Wilkof:
Great post Ryan. You have definitely keyed on the right issues and needs for standard ambulatory EHR developers and users: Drug interaction data; RxNorm Mapping, Drug reference data; Patient education data and Dose range checking.

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