PEPID Primary care plus ambulatory care

1. PEPID Primary care plus ambulatory care Becca Billings

2. Background • PEPID offers electronic decision-support systems for caregivers and patients. • They have capabilities on these devices: • Apple/iPad/iPhone • Kindle Fire • Android • Computers/Online • Blackberry • Subscription required • Not available to public/medical personnel without subscription (Private/For profit) • Free trials available 14 days

3. Product History • PEPID started by board-certified physician: Mark Rosenbloom, MBA, MD, FACEP • American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine • Kept detailed notes in lab coat pockets • Saved notes into “PDAs” (Personal digital assistants) • Expanded into medical and drug resource for colleagues • 1st version of PEPID was developed in 1994 with advisory board of over 35 board-certified physicians and pharmacologists. • Today, PEPID is the “number one developer of medical/drug information and decision-support tools.”

4. PEPID’S MISSION • Mission Statement • “PEPID seeks to provide all health care professionals with instantly accessible, current, comprehensive, and authoritative clinical point-of-care reference materials to help them provide faster, more individualized, and more effective health care. Our goal is more satisfied practitioners and better patient outcomes.”

5. Pricing • Individual and multiple users subscriptions • single-user • special group packages • & site licenses for entire healthcare systems, schools, departments, and clinics. • Depends on what you want! • Primary Care Plus = $299.95/1yr; $499.95/2yrs; $699.95/3yrs • 2 year payment = 4 payments of $138 • 3 year payment = 4 payments of $193 • Other subscriptions from EMT flashcards $7.95; Study aids $70; nursing suites $214.95; Student companions $299.95 • http://www.pepid.com/products/all/

6. EMR/EhR INTEGRATION – Yes! • Electronic Medical Records (EMR)/Electronic Health Records (HER) • “All our clinical and drug information is available for easy integration into any EMR system, and our data automatically maps to any drug identification or nomenclature system, eliminating coding issues and switching costs. PEPID's clinical and drug data has built-in workflow that comes from thousands of hours of workplace experience, allowing you to easily integrate our data in a meaningful way to maximize reimbursements and patient safety by providing clinicians with relevant information and alerts as they need them.” • Implementation • “All the clinical decision support tools available in the PEPID Knowledge Base can be easily integrated into any EMR or EHR system without long development cycles or complex system implementation. We offer an SDK that can be used with any programming language or environment to integrate our content and modules into clinician workflow.”

7. Where do they get information/sources? • “Does it use content created for the tool or recognized medical resources?  (e.g., those with pre-digital histories, such a established medical textbooks)” • The tool was established by doctors for doctors • Peer-reviewed • Evidence-based • Backed by these guys: • The American Academy of Emergency Medicine • The National Association of Emergency Medical Services Educators • Family Physicians Inquiries Network • National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists • Oncology Nursing Society • American Society of Health System Pharmacists • (ON NEXT SLIDE)

8. Peer reviewed & evidence-based content – Yes! • PEPID partners: • The American Academy of Emergency Medicine • The National Association of Emergency Medical Services Educators • Family Physicians Inquiries Network • National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists • Oncology Nursing Society • American Society of Health System Pharmacists • “Our history of partnering with renowned professional medical associations in emergency care, primary care, hospital care, oncology, pharmaceutical and nursing allows us to continue to provide the absolute most current, relevant and peer reviewed point of care information to all medical professionals throughout the entire healthcare system.” • Skokie, IL, May 18, 2005 - PEPID LLC─“theworld’s leading developer of medical information and support tools─announcedtoday the release of evidence-based Clinical Inquiries in its latest version of PEPID(TM) software for primary care professionals. Now physicians not only have patient treatment recommendations on their PDAs, they have the research to back them up as well.”

9. Cool Features . . . • PEPID: Primary Care Plus Ambulatory Care • Specialized Clinical Content • Reference tool and drug database for primary and ambulatory caregivers. • Drug Database • 8,500 drug names & information • Pill Identification • Identify patient medications by score, shape and color - even with only a partial imprint. • Differential Diagnosis Generator • Generates a potential diagnosis by inputting a patient's gender, age, symptoms, and symptom severity. Organized results by likelihood of occurrence based on the selected factors. • Drug Interactions Checker • Allows you to check for potential interactions between drug-drug, drug-herbal and drug-nutrient combinations. Provides severity ratings and an explanation of mechanisms for each potential interaction. • Drug Allergy Checker • Allows emergency medicine personnel to cross reference a patient's food or drug allergies with their current list of medications and foods, and receive an alert if an allergy or sensitivity exists.

10. More cool, Fun features . . . • IV Compatibility • Quickly compare compatibility of meds in Y-site, syringe and additives with our IV Compatibility Tool. The IV Compatibility Tool allows you to check drug-solution and drug-drug-solution combinations prior to mixing in clinical situations. • Laboratory Manual • PEPID's lab tests provide access to: Critical Values, Description, Normal Ranges, Interpretation High, Interpretation Low, Links to Related Tests, Links to Equations, Physiology and Tech Info • Illustrations • Our 750+ illustrations enhance content and are a great tool for patient education or reference. • Dosing Calculators • Over 3,000 weight-based and IV drip-rate dosing calculators are linked directly to drug information –pre-populated, integrated and drug specific to promote medication safety. • Medical Calculators • More than 400 medical calculators, equations and scores including; Body Surface Area, Glasgow, Coma Scale, Total Calcium, NIH Stroke Scale, Port Analysis and much more. • Evidence-Based Medicine • Employ best-practice methods by referencing evidenced-based content inquiries from the Family Physicians Inquiries Network. Our evidence-based inquiries are embedded into clinical and drug content and address the most important patient care questions asked by practicing physicians, how to appraise them and how to apply them.

11. Let’s Take a look! • http://www.pepid.com/myaccount/MyAccount.asp

12. Thank you! (The End)