RxSafety Advisor®
A Business Suite for Medication Safety
Our Standard service, which provides screenings for look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) drug pairs, and dose checking for these drugs, is offered at no cost to participating pharmacies in response to RelayHealth's continued commitment to our customers in providing innovative, value added network based solutions. Safety alerts will be based on LASA drug pairs selected in partnership with Wolters Kluwer Health.
Customers who participate in the Standard service will be eligible to register for the subscription-based Premium services. Our Premium service expands the screening capabilities of the Standard product to include dose screening on additional drugs targeted for pediatric patients (ages one through twelve) and geriatric patients (65 years of age and older). The Geriatrics module allows for dose checks based on authoritative geriatric guidelines that target inappropriate prescribing in the elderly. The Premium package offers web-based reporting for a retrospective analysis of safety alerts and response to alerts. The Premium offering includes: Pediatrics, Geriatrics and Reporting — for a $10 per store per month subscription service.
Benefits
Medication errors occur each year that cause death, illness, discomfort, medication complication, and loss of customer confidence. RxSafety Advisor® is a network-based application designed to:
- Reduce risk for dosing and look-alike/sound-alike dispensing errors.
- Directly or indirectly support requirements of state quality assurance programs to reduce medication errors.
- Enhance patient safety.
- Support medication safety best practices identified in the Institute for Safe Medical Practices Community Pharmacy Self-Assessment.
RxSafety Advisor is an exciting, innovative business solution to manage medication safety. It checks for preventable mistakes during the dispensing process — and is specifically designed to help you:
- Monitor Prescription Dispensing: Point-of-dispensing alerts to pharmacist and data entry personnel.
- Manage Patient and Medication Safety: Supports quality assurance programs and safe medication practices.
- Mitigate Risk Associated with Prescription Errors: Heightens awareness of dosing and name-confusion errors and reduces complacency regarding potential medication errors.
RxSafety Advisor's suite of services focuses on typical dosing, expanding the pharmacist's ability to recognize and prevent medication errors:
Product Features
RxSafety Advisor establishes a systems approach to reduce preventable mistakes and eases the burden on pharmacists' vigilance and memory.
- U.S. Patent Pending logic screens prescriptions against typical doses in real-time
- Messages alert pharmacists to double-check a prescription when an atypical dose may indicate an error
- Performs back-end reporting for self-audits
- Compatible with and complementary to any pharmacy system or other error reduction technology (such as bar-coding or robotics)
RxSafety Advisor requires no installation or special pharmacist training and can be implemented without additional software distribution costs.
