Medi-Span Offers Holistic Approach to Combating Alert Fatigue

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that it has developed a multi-faceted approach to addressing alert fatigue through its Medi-Span^® clinical decision support solutions. Medi-Span combines its functionality for alert customization and regular clinical content updates with 35 years of on-site clinical consulting experience to create a holistic solution to the significant challenge of clinicians bypassing alerts.

“It is critical that the healthcare industry find solutions to effectively address alert fatigue, an issue that continues to hinder optimal use of clinical decision support at the point of care”

To address the need for alert balance, Medi-Span® Clinical allows for alert customization by site, department or end-user to reduce the number of irrelevant alerts by user type. Alongside this customization, the solution provides contextual alerting content that considers patient profile data such as symptoms, age, weight, gender and renal function to create smarter, truly relevant alerts.

Medi-Span clinical decision support solutions back this with regular updating of clinical content based on industry changes, which eliminates outdated clinical alerts, and a team of seasoned consultants who can help healthcare organizations and users optimize the Medi-Span solutions within their systems.

“It is critical that the healthcare industry find solutions to effectively address alert fatigue, an issue that continues to hinder optimal use of clinical decision support at the point of care,” said David Del Toro, Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Drug Information, Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions. “Medi-Span offers a multi-faceted approach to minimizing alert fatigue through advanced functionality and expert consulting in an innovative way that heightens the impact of the alert process and fully leverages its potential to improve patient safety.”

About Medi-Span

Medi-Span is the leading provider of drug information for thousands of health care professionals worldwide. With more than 30 years experience, Medi-Span continues to offer authoritative drug databases in a variety of formats, including clinical decision support and disease suite modules, application programming interfaces and stand-alone software applications. In conjunction with superior implementation and experienced customer support, the Medi-Span line of solutions is the perfect choice for those needing accurate, trusted, drug data that easily integrates into existing software applications.

Medi-Span is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2011 annual revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.7 billion).