Useful Resources from the Web and for Handhelds

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Useful Resources from the Web and for Handhelds

• Presented at the University of Ottawa Better
  Prescribing Conference, November 6th 2004
• Dr. Mark Baumgartner

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It is more important to know what sort of person
has a disease than to know what sort of disease a
person has.

• Hippocrates

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Vision Statement

• Harness technology to reduce prescribing errors
  while simultaneously expanding and refining your
  therapeutic toolkit.

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Goal and Objective

• Show you the best electronic tools to improve
  your prescribing practices.
• Show you how to use these tools at the point of
  care.
• Provide the foundation to support your ongoing
  exploration of emerging technologies.

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Todays Situation

• Adverse drug events are common
• Therapeutic diversity is increasing
• Polypharmacy is routine

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How Did We Get Here?

• Pharmaceutical industry is the major economic
  engine for medical therapeutics.
• It is no longer realistic for most physicians to
  internalize all the drug information that they
  will require.

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Available Options

• Handheld Pharmaceutical References
• CD-ROM and Web-Based References

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Online Demonstration

• Important to use a step-wise, and stage specific
  approach to integrating electronic reference
  resources at the point of care.
• sic. An interactive online tutorial continues
  for the remainder of the presentation. You can
  access the tutorial materials at
  http//progressivethought.com/bpc.htm .

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Recommendation

• Configure and become proficient at using a
  handheld device to routinely access drug
  references.
• Configure your desktop/laptop to provide access
  more in-depth information from a variety of
  electronic sources.
• Continue customizing and personalizing your
  electronic tool kit.
• See http//progressivethought.com/bpc.htm for a
  detailed guide.

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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there also
is a love of humanity

• Hippocrates