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Plexys is focused on helping physicians to provide the highest-quality patient
care by delivering value-added information services to the health care market.
Our initial service, called
Prescription Plus, will enable
physicians to request electronic prescriptions using a handheld computing device
and the Internet. We expect to expand our products and services in the future to
meet the diverse information needs of physicians.
Why use Prescription Plus?
Prescription Plus can help health care professionals to save time, money and
ultimately lives by reducing the chance of error in the medication-prescribing
process. According to the American Medical Association, over 100,000 persons die
annually from adverse side-effects from drugs, and another 2 million are
hospitalized. Some of these cases are the result of preventable medication errors
– prescribing the wrong drug or dose, misreading a handwritten prescription,
confusing drugs with similar names, or prescribing a drug that interacts
dangerously with another. In fact, computerized prescriptions
reduced by more than 50% serious medication errors
in one hospital study, according to The Journal of the American Medical
Association.
Prescription Plus reduces the chance of error by automatically alerting the
user to potential interactions with the patient’s other medications, and by
removing the inefficient paper trail that currently plagues the drug-dispensing
process. Also, users of Prescription Plus are prompted to comply with
insurance formularies, so that prescriptions can be filled faster.
The Prescription Plus service is
- User-friendly
- Runs on a palm-sized, portable computing device
- Costs about as much as monthly Internet access
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