Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that ScriptRx, Inc. will integrate Medi-Span Clinical into its line of touch-screen EMR and discharge systems for emergency rooms and urgent care centers. The agreement was announced at the ongoing HIMSS11, where Wolters Kluwer Health is featuring several of its leading clinical decision support (CDS) tools, including Medi-Span Clinical, in Booth #6162.
ScriptRx is a provider of electronic discharge systems specific to the 'walk-in' ambulatory sector of healthcare, including hospital emergency departments, urgent care centers and retail health clinics. Its interactive EMR, Discharge Instructions, Prescription Writing and Medication Reconciliation systems are packaged into intuitive, user-friendly and customisable software with touch-screen hardware. Designed to be a low-cost alternative to more complicated medical software programmes, ScriptRx systems enable physicians to chart patient encounters, prescribe medications, access drug reference information, generate legible discharge instructions and view formulary information, all at the point of care.
Medi-Span Clinical is a CDS platform that delivers the functionality, interoperability and medication-related decision support necessary to advance the practice of evidence-based medicine and to achieve meaningful use of health IT.
For EMR vendors, Medi-Span Clinical delivers CCHIT-compliant medication-related CDS and enables client organisations to meet multiple criteria for meaningful use. It was developed architecturally to adapt easily to a continuously evolving certification environment, with a flexible platform that can grow and expand to meet future criteria with minimal impact to customers.
For clinicians, Medi-Span Clinical delivers a full slate of medication-related CDS features, including drug interactions, route contraindications and drug allergy alerts. It provides links to supporting medical evidence, the ability to turn off individual interactions or allergic reactions and flexible screening capabilities. Finally, Medi-Span Clinical features a full range of application programming interfaces (APIs), including those that support dose screening and recommended drug orders; identification of therapeutic duplications; pregnancy, lactation and age- and gender-conflict checking; and drug-to-disease screening.
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