Medi-Span databases and files include drug data configured for applications that span the healthcare continuum, offering clinical screening and alerts. Medi-Span is used by:
- 1,600 hospitals
- 6 of the top 10 EMRs
- The top 10 PBMs
- 9 of the top 10 retail pharmacies
Implementation
- Implementation during initial system setup is managed by Epic
- Customize your data and decision support solution! Medi-Span sales team is available to consult with hospitals on which files best suit their needs
- Medi-Span works directly with clients post-implementation to provide data-related technical support and expertise
- Web delivery download of data
- Content updated monthly - full database or incremental updates available
EPIC Enterprise Modules supporting Medi-Span Integration
- EpicCare® Ambulatory EMR - practice management for physician groups with CPOE capability
- EpicCare® Inpatient EMR - patient accounting and management with CPOE capability by physicians within the hospital
- Willow Inpatient - inpatient pharmacy dispensing
- Willow Ambulatory Rx - dispensing within physician clinics
- OpTime Operating Room Management - scheduling and documenting surgeries
Available Medi-Span databases and modules include:
- Drug Interaction and Allergy Screening
- Duplicate Therapy screening with duplication allowance
- Identify a drug’s indications
- Therapeutic Classification
- Advanced drug dosing
- Conflict screening for age, gender, diseases, pregnancy, and lactation
- Drug identification
- I.V. compatibility checking
- Mapping of Medi-Span codes to RxNorm to promote interoperability
Benefits
- Supports Meaningful Use
- Medi-Span provides screening functions that are required by Meaningful Use, including drug-drug interaction, drug-allergy interaction, drug-disease interaction, duplicate therapy screening, and dose range checking
- Files that map Medi-Span concepts to RxNorm help support Meaningful Use requirement of RxNorm as a common vocabulary representing medications and medication allergies for transitions in care
- Helps combat “alert fatigue” with Medi-Span Alert Control functionality
- Medi-Span consults with Epic to customize filter settings on EMRs to help customers develop intelligent ways to address alert fatigue through more effective alert screening and alert management
- Alert Control functionality that allows for alert customization at the site, department or clinician end-user level, which enables the reduction of irrelevant alerts by user type
- Contextual alerting content considers available patient profile information regarding symptoms, age, weight, gender, body surface area and renal function to make clinical alerts better tailored to a particular patient’s situation
- Updated clinical screening content built on and adjusted to deal with changes in the standard of care enabling the reduction of outdated alerts
- The Medi-Span GPI advantage
- The Medi-Span proprietary Generic Product Identifier, or GPI, is a unique concept with a long-proven track record that identifies drug products by a hierarchical therapeutic classification scheme
- The 14-character value of a GPI defines pharmaceutically equivalent drug products having the same active ingredients, dosage form, strength or concentration, route of administration, and therapeutic use
- This structure allows for the creation of complex drug lists with any level of granularity
- The GPI’s level of specificity makes it ideal for reviewing and screening data in a clinical setting
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