ALERT: Thomson Reuters Includes Pharmacy Intervention Solution to Clinical Decision Support Portfolio
March 2, 2010
Thomson Reuters has unveiled Pharmacy Intervention solution designed to enhance workflow at hospital pharmacies. By leveraging the power of the Micromedex reference information, along with real-time clinical surveillance, and mobile accessibility to patient information, the new solution is expected to aid hospital pharmacists in averting adverse drug events, facilitate bed-side detection, execution, and documentation of interventions, and lower medication expenses.
The Pharmacy Intervention will be offered within Thomson’s clinical decision support offering, Clinical Xpert Suite™ of workflow solution. The solutions in the suite help enhance clinical workflow through clinical data collection from across an enterprise’s clinical information systems, to empower care providers with real-time patient information at the point-of-care through smartphones, Web and mobile devices.
The latest addition to the Clinical Xpert product portfolio allows
o Identification of patients at risk: Pharmacy Intervention equates clinical profiles with information collected from the various clinical systems to recognize patients on potentially lethal medication combination or dosage, which could pose the risk for an adverse drug event.
o Pharmacy cost containment: The solution is believed to support hospitals in lowering expenses by identifying alternative medication therapies that are equally effective.
o Point-of-care intervention: Using mobile devices, pharmacists can avail benefits of point-of-care interventions, which can be linked with the patient’s health record, and accessed any time by all authorized care providers.
o Clinical decision support: Utilizing the Micromedex reference information, pre-built profiles of the solution enable caregivers to address narrow therapeutic indexing, antimicrobial, anticoagulation and glycemic monitoring, patient safety, and intravenous-to-oral conversion.
Columbus Regional Hospital’s clinical pharmacy coordinator, Christine Soedel believes that Pharmacy Intervention, apart from enhancing the hospital’s pharmacist workflow, will help efficiently monitor patients’ medication requirements and improve patient safety.
Built on the technology know-how from major vendors like Micromedex, PDR, Medstat, MercuryMD, and Solucient, Thomson’s Healthcare unit offers a host of decision support solutions designed for hospitals, health plans, clinicians, healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies employers, and researchers. In the US itself, the company touches more than 150 million lives.
To empower caregivers with direct mobile and Web access to Micromedex content, in 2009, the company introduced the clinical information system, Micromedex® 2.0. Employed at above 3,500 hospitals across 83 countries, Micromedex solutions support care providers with evidence-based reference data related to patient education, disease management, alternate medications, neonatal dosages, drugs, and toxicology. Thomson Reuter’s clinical decision offerings also include Order Set Solution, the Micromedex® Corporate Solutions suite, and the Micromedex Integrated Content.
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