Sep
6
Written by:
Kaili
9/6/2011 3:11 PM
Moving on in our Meaningful Use Breakdown series we will take a closer look at the core measure two, Drug Interaction Checks. This core measure checks to see that the EP (Eligible Professionals) are using EMR technology in regards to checking medications that they are prescribing to patients for possible drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions.
Attesting for this measure is a yes or no.
- Yes = Drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks were turned on during the full 90 day reporting period.
- No = Drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks were NOT turned on for the full 90 day reporting period.
Within the EMR these alerts should automatically appear when an interaction is found. This feature is already included within the Practice Expert EMR.
For example:
If I the EP prescribed a patient both the medications Penicillin and Trexall, the drug-drug alert would be triggered and shown. It would also give me the option to suppress the alert for this medication for this patient on this instance or not.
The drug-allergy works the same way, alerting the EP if the patient has an allergy to the drug being prescribed or an ingredient within the drug.
Questions on drug interaction checks, ask me or anything else on EMR's and/or Meaningful Use, and for more help or understanding about Meaningful Use contact me your Meaningful Use consultant.
Coming up next in the Meaningful Use Breakdown series we will cover core measure three, Maintain Problem List.