PEPID introduces duplicate therapy checker

In addition to the drug-drug, drug-allergy, drug-food and drug-herbal checks, PEPID’s drug interaction checker also provides alerts for duplicate therapy on three different levels -therapeutic class, pharmacologic class and the ingredient level.

The duplicate therapy check allows electronic medical record or pharmacy information systems to give users a warning if a duplicate therapy exists.

System developers can use the PEPID software development kit and APIs to programmatically receive critical drug information monographs, dosing calculators, drug interaction, drug-allergy or duplicate therapy information.

PEPID’s clinical and pharmacological content is designed to support clinicians through every stage of the decision support process, increasing safety through better-informed patient care, and this latest module adds to the robust content and tools available, and helps to meet meaningful use criteria in electronic medical records (EMR) systems.