Originally Posted by JMayer
Oh and one more huge wish: I'd love to have a drug interaction checker in the program so I could check interactions on the fly. That would easily be worth $200-$300 a year to me. Right now I have to enter everything into Epocrates on my palm pilot, and this does slow me down, yet it's an important step. (Hey I'm a compulsive internist. It's the way we're trained). cool

I don't work for AC but I know that an on-the-fly drug interaction checker would be a huge task for the programmers. Right now, the drug names in our database are just that: names. To check interactions, every drug name would have to become associated with its own table or mini-database, almost like each one was an individual patient.

I agree it would be nice. Here is a roundup of online drug interaction checkers:

http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/16/online-drug-interaction-checkers/


Brian Cotner, M.D.
Family Practice