FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Linda Von Schweber
Telephone: 877-797-8783 x102
Email: linda@surveyorhealth.com
Erick Von Schweber, CEO of SURVEYOR Health
to present at Health 2.0 Fall 2011 Conference
in San Francisco
Demonstration shows how Medication Risk Maps
aren't just for consumers anymore
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 26, 2011 – Erick Von Schweber, CEO of SURVEYOR Health will be showing a preview of their professional version of Medication Risk Maps for providers, pharmacists and pharmacies on September 26 at 2:45 PM in the Medication and Care Management parallel track.
The demonstration shows Medication Risk Maps integrated with the SMArt Platform developed by Harvard and Children’s Hospital Boston under the ONC’s Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects program, for which SURVEYOR Health won an honorable mention in the ONC’s SMArt Apps for Health Developer Challenge.
Visit SURVEYOR Health at Booth #20 and see for yourself how Medication Risk Maps can save your organization from the enormous downstream costs of adverse drug effects.
According to Lyle Bootman’s group at the highly respected University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, adverse drug events result in a downstream cost of $94 per patient per drug per month on the healthcare system. This cost, $359 Billion annually for the country as a whole, arises from adverse drug events that in turn lead to additional doctor visits, emergency room visits, new and extended hospitalizations, readmissions and additional prescriptions, and the cost is on the rise.
Drug interaction checkers and other current technologies have not had an impact despite widespread use, partly because drug interactions are a small part of adverse drug events, for example, additive toxicities outnumber drug interactions 100 to 1 but are undetected by interaction checkers. Additionally, published research has revealed that adverse events are a major reason people do not adhere to their prescribed medications, including what physicians and the FDA refer to as “nuisance” side effects, those that are not life threatening but important to the patient none-the-less.
SURVEYOR Health’s Medication Risk Maps (MRM) combines, applies, searches and correlates the evidence to identify, diagnose and resolve adverse drug events, including additive toxicities as well as the more traditional interactions and contraindications.
MRM is cloud-based biomedical informatics that integrates into EMRs, EHRs, PHRs, HIEs, MTM and E-prescribing for use by providers and pharmacists at the point of care.