It is estimated that each year some 530,000 adverse drug events take place among Medicare beneficiaries alone because of drugs negatively interacting with other drugs the patient is already taking, or insufficient information about the patient’s medical history. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported last year that more than 1.5 million Americans are injured annually by drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and doctor’s offices. These negative drug events may require costly interventions in order to stabilize the patient, including hospitalization.
Electronic prescribing (eRx) has been recognized as an important step in moving health care from a paper-based legacy to a new electronic platform. The use of ePrescribing has been incentivized by the federal government, specifically via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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, RxNorm Mappings, Drug Classifications, dose range checking (adult and pediatric) and more.
We are committed to ensuring patient safety.
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Since Lexi-Data provides a great data structure for EMRs to work with, a number of them have elected to go with Lexicomp as their drug information supplier.
Nice work.