openemrhq wrote on Monday, February 09, 2009:
Is anyone currently working on a system to alert the user about possible drug interaction?
Thanks,
Dave Kennerson
jpmd wrote on Tuesday, February 10, 2009:
We have successfully created, tested, and are using a single sign on to RelayHealth’s e-prescribing system that does drug-drug interaction checks, drug-allergy checks and drug-disease condition interaction checks. Although not directly in OpenEMR, the e-prescribing system fills all of the holes that OpenEMR has in reference to maintaing drug databases, interactions etc.
This code has already been submitted to Rod and is avaiable in the CVS. I agree with the previous posts that OpenEMR will need to be CCHIT certified to be competitive and we are willing to help with development time and financial contributions. Many certified companies use 3rd parties to perform certain essential functions.
Future releases of the single sign on code will include a means for allergies to be uploaded to the e-prescribing system from OpenEMR and for drug histories to be ported back to the prescription history in OpenEMR. We felt that this was the fastest way to get a top noche e-prescribing system integrated for OpenEMR without the cost of purchasing drug databases and maintaing them on our own.
Jude Pierre, MD
Phyaura, LLC
www.phyaura.com