Picis Medication Interaction Checking

Anesthesia providers, unlike other hospital practices, are often the only healthcare providers in the hospital to decide what medications to administer to a patient without the safety net of checks afforded other providers. Picis Medication Interaction Checking is designed for the unique medication order and administration workflows in anesthesia and PACU. Created specifically to work with Picis Anesthesia Manager and PACU Manager, this feature notifies users when there is a drug-drug or drug-allergy interaction, helping to reduce the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug effects, and creating a documented record of timed events. 

The interaction checking feature occurs upon opening a patient’s chart, where medications the patient is currently receiving are checked for interactions against a common anesthesia medication list configured by the hospital as well as the medications in the default protocol for the chart. Checks are also made at the point-of-care when adding a medication to the chart.

Picis has partnered with First DataBank to license its comprehensive drug and allergy information for Medication Interaction Checking. The resulting integrated drug database improves user workflow, enhances clinical decision making at the point-of-need, helps clinicians improve decision making and reduces the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events.