Innovative Integrated Medicine's Management Solution Being Presented at the June 2014 Commissioning Show
EXETER, England, June 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Lincolnshire East Clinical Commissioning Group (LECCG) will be presenting their experiences of the OptimiseRx electronic medicines management clinical decision support pilot which concluded in early 2014.
LECCG are piloting the new integrated, patient contextual, medicines management solution with a view to addressing rising prescribing expenditure along with its particular demographic challenges (aging population with considerable prescribing over-spend).
Dr James Howarth, GP Chair Skegness and Coast Locality, said, "We wanted a point of care prescribing tool which was simple, quick, integrated with our clinical systems, adaptable, locally responsive, with as much emphasis on quality as cost-effectiveness."
Dr Howarth will detail his CCG's interest in, and expectations of, the OptimiseRx solution and show how local formulary and healthcare initiatives have been incorporated, while his colleague, Dr Fermin Blanco, will take attendees through a number of challenging prescribing scenarios that have benefited from the use of OptimiseRx.
Dr Howarth and Blanco's presentation, "Introducing point of care medicines optimisation support into NHS Lincolnshire East CCG; the concept, the practicalities and the benefits," will feature in the CCG Business Stream of the Commissioning Show on 25 June.
About Hearst Health
Hearst Health provides First Data Bank (FDB) related clinical drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise medication-related decisions.
OptimiseRx is a newly developed patient contextual medicines management solution from FDB. It is fully integrated with the patient record to enable the delivery of appropriate prescribing best practice and to optimise cost savings.
FDB is the only provider of clinical decision support to receive NHS Evidence accredited provider status from NICE. FDB drug knowledge forms a critical part of primary and secondary care patient administration systems, medicines optimisation solutions.
With thousands of customers worldwide, FDB solutions enables our information system developer partners to deliver a wide range of valuable, useful, and differentiated solutions. We offer more than thirty years of experience in transforming drug knowledge into trusted, purposeful and effective solutions that improve patient safety and healthcare outcomes.
For further information on FDB's solution suite please visit http://fdbhealth.co.uk or email sales@fdbhealth.com
About Lincolnshire East CCG
Lincolnshire East Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is made up of 30 GP practices across our three localities - Boston Area, East Lindsey, and Skegness and Coast - covering an area of 1,060 square miles.
We are working together to provide and commission - or buy - high quality health services to improve the health of the 241,246 people living in our area.
http://www.lincolnshireeastccg.nhs.uk/
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