Digital healthcare: good advice thanks to data
HCI Solutions is preparing pharmaceutical data to meet requirements and thus making an important contribution to the digitalisation in the healthcare sector.
300 new medicinal products are approved each year in Switzerland. This can make it challenging even for experienced healthcare professionals to maintain an overview of the entire range of services, mechanisms of action, interactions and side effects of medications. Both professionals and patients trust in reliable information such as that available in the compendium.ch online database from HCI Solutions.
Before the medicinal product data is added to the database, it is carefully recorded by HCI Solutions. An editorial team checks all received information about new medicinal products, harmonises the data and supplements it with photographs of tablets or packaging, for example. Once all required information is available and correct, it is published in the index databases and therefore also in tools such as the compendium or Documedis®. This software accesses the relevant medicinal product data, thereby enabling Clinical Decision Support (CDS), for instance. This allows the medication used by a patient or medication that they plan to use to be rapidly checked for known risks, interactions or duplicate medications, i.e., when the same active substance is present in multiple prescribed medications.
The responsible preparation of data allows all health service providers to fulfil their promise: to offer patients the best possible advice and ensure their safety.
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