Drug Interactions

Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) result in more than 2.1 million injuries each year, and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 100,000 Americans die annually of adverse reactions to prescription drugs. These cases can be easily avoided using a real-time prompt such as the Medinotes e Drug Interaction Module.

MediNotes is pleased to offer full Drug Interaction functionality to our existing prescription, medication history and allergy history features. This utility tracks the patient's allergies and current/past medications against any new medications that are being prescribed. This module utilizes a comprehensive database of known interactions and prompts the user using stoplight indicators on the prescription dialog.

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Stoplight warnings protect your patients from the possibility of an interaction:

• Green means that no interactions are indicated
• Yellow means that there is a possible interaction
• Red indicates a known interaction

Note: For users that have implemented Synchronization, after loading the drug interactions library the initial synch will be somewhat lengthy. Testing has shown that the initial synch can be two or more hours. Please ensure that you have ample time before starting this synch, as stopping the synch during processing could cause damage to your stored data. Subsequent synchs will return to normal duration.

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