PPC-5 Electronic Prescribing

Element B Prescribing Decision Support Safety

Data Points

1. Drug-drug interactions based on general information
2. Drug-drug interactions specific to drugs the patient takes
3. Drug-disease interactions based on general information
4. Drug-disease interactions specific to diseased the patient has
5. Drug-allergy alerts based on general information
6. Drug-allergy alerts specific to the patient
7. Drug-patient history alerts based on general information
8. Appropriate dosing based on general information
9. x
10. Therapeutic monitoring associated with specific drugs utilization based on general information
11. x
12. x
13. Drugs to be avoided in the elderly based on general information
14. Drugs to be avoided in the elderly based on age of the patient
15. patient-appropriate medication information

SETMA’s medication module performs the 12 data points noted above.

Element C – Prescribing Decision-Support Efficiency

Data Point 1 Electronic prescription writer with general automatic alerts for different choices including generics

SETMA’s use of NextGen fulfills data point 1 and can do data point 2 but we have never utilized the payer-specific formulary function.