Every medication decision counts
Every medication decision, whether prescribing, dispensing, counseling, administering treatments, settling policy, or helping patients to manage their conditions, is critical.
The stakes are high: The annual cost associated with medication errors is an estimated $42 billion globally, according to the World Health Organization. With evidence changing daily, you need referential drug information that is evidence-based, continually updated, and easily accessible at the point of care for professionals across the healthcare landscape.
The power of one voice for drug information
Drug solutions, such as UpToDate® Lexidrug™(formerly Lexicomp®) and Medi-Span®, deliver real-world, evidence-based insights and recommendations to support you when making appropriate drug decisions for your patients and members. Drug insights are also integrated into UpToDate clinical decision support to enable better care decisions and diagnoses. If the same drug information is used across multiple departments, organizations and even industries, then the whole healthcare ecosystem can make unified, evidence-based drug decisions.
UpToDate Lexidrug for Individuals
A personal subscription to UpToDate Lexidrug offers unparalleled referential drug content that empowers you to make the best possible evidence-based medication decisions.
UpToDate Lexidrug For Individuals
UpToDate Lexidrug for Enterprises
Provide access to referential drug content from UpToDate Lexidrug across teams and empower them to make evidence-based medication decisions, even when cases are complex.
UpToDate Lexidrug For Enterprises
Medi-Span Drug Data
Aligned with UpToDate, Medi-Span embedded drug data solutions support medication-related decisions across the care continuum, including dispensing, claims processing, pricing, and reimbursem*nt.
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Our unified drug information offers the power to…
Trust in consistent information
All the topics covered across the UpToDate solutions undergo the same rigorous editorial process and are aligned to ensure consistency.
Understand specific patient needs
Our drug monographs — each containing details for adult, pediatric, and geriatric populations — equip you to make confident decisions for each unique patient.
Utilize the most current evidence
Lexidrug continuously evolves to provide the latest evidence-based content, and we do so in a way that allows clinicians to treat each patient based on their individual medicalneeds.
Receive guidance on complex decisions
Go beyond the standard drug information to gain depth where it matters most, and sophisticated guidance that supports patient and member populations, co-morbidities, pregnancy, and more.
"Having a trusted source for drug decisions is critical to delivering safe, high-quality healthcare. Using [UpToDate Lexidrug], I am confident that the information we provide to other healthcare professionals is contributing to the best possible outcomes for our patients."
– Colm Devine, Chief Pharmacist, Letterkenny University Hospital, Ireland
Efficiently access key drug information within clinical decision support
When treating a patient, you need to move quickly while also making the best decisions possible. Likewise, setting policy or evaluating benefits and claims requires precise and efficient choices. Clear, concise drug monographs make it easy to apply the drug information to the decisions at hand. In addition to drug topics, UpToDate grants you access to the following drug databases:
- General and disease-specific dosing, including evidence-based, off-label dosing
- Detailed dose adjustments for impaired kidney or liver function, obesity, or toxicity
- Pediatric and neonatal dosing and drug administration
- A separate drug interactions program (Lexi-Interact) that provides a more in-depth analysis of drug-drug, herb-drug, and herb-herb interactions
- Drug adverse effects, warnings, and precautions, including practical details such as premedication information and patient monitoring parameters
- Drug administration details, including drug brands, available strength, and dosage form information
- Current FDA Special Alerts and major Health Canada safety communications
The drug information and drug interactions databases in UpToDate and Lexidrug solutions add another level of knowledge to clinical and pharmacological practice, helping improve the quality and safety of care.
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Additional solutions with UpToDate Lexidrug
With UpToDate Lexidrug, additional solutions designed for retail pharmacy can enhance efficiency and improve formulary adherence.
Drug reference for retail pharmacy
Provide evidence-based drug content, tools, and tables with an interface geared for the retail environment that allows pharmacists to quickly access the information they need to assist patients.
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Custom formulary
With thousands of drugs to consider for your patient population and budgetary requirements, having your formulary and policies integrated directly into decision support tools improves safety and efficiency.
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