Reducing Medical Errors with INTERACTANT

Farmingdale, NJ, (December 3, 1999) - Health Care Software, Inc. (HCS) shares the growing national concern, recently voiced by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, over the leading cause of death and injury - medical errors. HCS' INTERACTANT Healthcare Information System assists users in many ways to eliminate medical errors.

For example, using INTERACTANT's Clinical Management Module will assist caregivers in eliminating mistakes ranging from illegible writing to treatments based on incomplete information. A pharmacy module also checks dosage levels and red flags drug interactions, drug allergies, duplicate drug orders, IV conflicts, and lab tests to drug alerts. These modules are part of the INTERACTANT Clinical Management System and feature multiple levels of authorization checking.

A clinical documentation module carefully tracks patient progress that becomes part of the electronic medical record. Various alerts include vital sign tracking, medication administration tracking, multidisciplinary notes, I/O module, and user defined clinical assessments. The INTERACTANT Nursing Care Plan Module uses industry standard NANDA terms that can be user modified for optimum patient individualization.