Abstract
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a major source of preventable morbidity and mortality, especially among the elderly, who use more drugs and are more sensitive to them. The insurance industry has recently addressed this problem through the implementation of drug interaction alerts to pharmacists in conjunction with immediate online claims adjudication for almost 60% of prescriptions (expected to reach 90% within 5 years). These alerts are based on stored patient drug profiles maintained by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) which are updated whenever prescriptions are filled. While these alerts are very helpful, the pharmacist does not prescribe, resulting in time-consuming and costly delays to contact the physician and remedy potential interactions. We have developed and demonstrated the feasibility of the PINPOINT (Pharmaceutical Information Network for prevention of interactions) system for making the drug profile and interaction information easily available to the physician before the prescription is written. We plan to test the cost-effectiveness of the system in a prospective controlled clinical trial.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Editors | Warren S. Grundfest |
Pages | 121-130 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Volume | 2499 |
State | Published - 1995 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | Health Care Technology Policy II: The Role of Technology in the Cost of Health Care: Providing the Solutions - Arlington, VA, USA Duration: May 10 1995 → May 12 1995 |
Other
Other | Health Care Technology Policy II: The Role of Technology in the Cost of Health Care: Providing the Solutions |
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City | Arlington, VA, USA |
Period | 5/10/95 → 5/12/95 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Condensed Matter Physics