Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has launched Medi-Span Clinical, a clinical decision support (CDS) platform that delivers the functionality, interoperability and medication-related CDS necessary to advance the practice of evidence-based medicine and to achieve meaningful use of health IT.
Medi-Span Clinical was developed architecturally to easily adapt 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 EMR vendors, Medi-Span Clinical delivers CCHIT-compliant medication-related clinical decision support and enables client organisations to meet multiple criteria for meaningful use, as currently defined. The platform contains a suite of Application Programming Interfaces (API) that allows health information system vendors to utilise Medi-Span content, terminology mappings and featured functionality in a manner that seamlessly integrates into new and existing EHR applications. Utilisation of APIs allows development efforts to focus on the application rather than the underlying data structure.
For clinicians, Medi-Span Clinical delivers a full slate of medication-related CDS features, including drug interactions, route contraindications and drug allergy alerts. Additionally, the Medi-Span Clinical vision features a full range of 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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