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Adverse Drug Reactions
Prescription Solutions Provides Innovative Real-Time, Multi-Provider and Multi-Pharmacy Intervention Program to Prevent Dangerous Drug Interactions
May 1st, 2009
A Drug Interaction Alert Program (DIAP) developed by Prescription Solutions, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, is one of the first of its kind to identify potentially harmful and dangerous drug interactions in real-time and over multiple pharmacies and providers. Directly addressing the lack of coordinated care that often exists with patients under the care of multiple prescribers, the unique intervention specifically targets dangerous drug interactions prescribed by at least two different physicians. Using real-time faxed patient-specific notifications to alert physicians of clinically significant drug interactions, the program helped to resolve potentially...
Source: Health Business Week (2009-05-01)
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