ALLERGY CHECK

Provides a reliable and efficient means of screening patient records for potentially harmful drug-allergy conditions, as well as providing warnings for pertinent cross-sensitivity reactions.

Features and Benefits:

Ingredient Checking
Ingredient level checking for multiple allergens per drug item - resulting in thorough drug-allergy interaction checking

Drug-Allergy cross-sensitivity warnings
Allows for more in-depth drug-allergy checking database current.

Monthly Updates
Keeps pharmacist's computer system's allergy checking database current.

Inactive Component Monitoring
Provisions for monitoring drug allergy to inactive drug components - checks for allergic reactions to product fillers, dyes, vehicles.

INTERACTION CHECK

Provides an authoritative, reliable and efficient means for screening patient records for potentially harmful drug-to-drug interactions. Includes Patient Counseling Messages, promoting the safe and effective use of prescription and OTC medications, as well as Cross-Sell Messages to recommend OTC medications, helping minimize potential side effects of the drug.

Features and Benefits:


Multiple Significance Levels
Three levels of significance, assisting the pharmacist in the practical management of the drug-to-drug interaction.

Route Specific
Prevents pharmacist from reviewing invalid drug-to-drug interactions (i.e., topical preparations interacting with internal preparations, etc.)

Patient/Pharmacist Messages
Displays up to three patient messages and/or pharmacist messages per drug, on-screen and/or printed. Reinforces the pharmacist's Patient Counseling Program and assists patient compliance with therapy.

Easy-to-use record formats
Facilitates rapid processing of information.

PATIENT DRUG EDUCATION DATABASE

An electronic database of product-specific patient-oriented drug information integrated into a vendor's software to provide a patient with a printed medication information sheet. This information is designed to supplement the verbal instructions to a patient by a physician, pharmacist or other health care professional concerning this medication regimen. The product information sheets contain concise material concerning the common uses, proper use, special instructions and precautions, and possible side effects for prescription and selected over-the-counter (OTC) medications.

Features and Benefits:

Computerized Database
Computerized, integrated database for pharmacies, physician offices or other healthcare professionals. Patient education materials are stored in a database eliminating physical storage space for pre-printed materials.

Drug Instructions
Drug product, dosage form and strength specific instructions. Keeps monograph size to a single page for most drugs. Increases patient understanding by eliminating information not pertaining to the presribed drug.

Easily Understood Instructions
Easy to read and comprehend instructions. Targeted for wide socioeconomic range, content and format iswritten at sixth grade reading level. Perceived by patient as a personal touch to their drug information needs.

- Available in English and Spanish

- Available in short and long monographs