Wolters Kluwer Health Launches New Medication Order Management Database to Help Reduce Medical Errors; Medi-Span's Latest Offering Responds to the Demand for More Robust E-Prescribing Tools.CHICAGO -- Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. Health (WKH), the leading drug information provider, today announced the launch of the Medication Order Management Database(TM) (MOMD MOMD Man of My Dreams MoMD Moderate Mental Disabilities MOMD Material Ordering & Management Document ) to support computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE CPOE Computerized Physician Order Entry CPOE Computerized Provider Order Entry CPOE Computerized Prescriber Order Entry )/e-prescribing applications. MOMD provides clinically relevant medication orders (otherwise know as "sigs" or "dosing instructions") to ensure patients are prescribed the most appropriate dose based on a given drug and set of clinical parameters. This will help to reduce the thousands of medical errors that occur every year in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . This latest offering from Medi-Span(R), the leading provider of drug information databases from WKH, enhances CPOE and e-prescribing applications by incorporating clinical parameters such as patient age, weight, renal function, indication, route of administration and special conditions. In addition, MOMD offers the ability to set multiple user preferences, such as one that allows a user to specify the number of sigs retrieved and one that provides the option to return sigs in terms of dose (5 mg) and/or dosage form (1 tablet). "We are extremely pleased that the Medication Order Management Database will provide users with the most robust solution available on the market today," said Ken Killion, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Wolters Kluwer Health's Clinical Tools business unit. "This latest addition to the Medi-Span product line will allow users to generate clinically relevant sigs that will encourage best dose prescribing and ultimately reduce prescribing errors." As a flat file database A flat file database describes any of various means to encode a data model (most commonly a table) as a plain text file. Flat files A flat file is a file that contains records, and in which each record is specified in a single line. , MOMD can be integrated with vendor or self-programmed systems. Incremental and full database updates are available weekly and monthly via CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). or telecommunications. For additional information regarding MOMD, contact Chuck Conroy at cconroy@drugfacts.com or visit www.medi-span.com. About Wolters Kluwer Health-Clinical Tools business unit Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. It is part of Wolters Kluwer nv, Amsterdam, an international legal, tax, business, education and health information services See Information Systems. company with annual sales of more than EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 3.5 billion. The Clinical Tools business unit offers industry-leading intellectual property, next-generation integrated drug and disease databases and point-of-care information tools for healthcare professionals. These tools aid in disease management, error reduction, workflow improvements, and more effective patient management and are used in thousands of hospitals, pharmacies, and physician offices. Currently, the business unit includes the Medi-Span, Facts and Comparisons, Clin-eguide and SKOLAR brands. Other major brands of Wolters Kluwer Health include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; electronic information providers, such as Ovid Technologies; and pharmaceutical information provider Adis International. www.wkhealth.com. |
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