< + > Not All Prescription Management and Clinical Decision Support Are Created Equal

When I first discovered Synapse Medicine, I was fascinated by the depth of work they had done to handle prescriptions and clinical decision support in their system.  Since their system was and is being broadly used in France, they were able to see and work on all the problems associated with medication management and discover the solutions that worked across a wide swath of patients and environments.  Needless to say, there’s more to prescription management and medication decision support than you would expect at first glance.

This is why I was excited to sit down with Clement Goehrs, MD-PhD, CEO & Co-Founder Synapse Medicine, to learn more about these topics and Synapse Medicine’s progress bringing these solutions to the US market and other countries.  We kick off our discussion around prescription safety and Goehrs offers a nice framework for thinking about prescription safety including two macro trends that are making medication management more challenging: Changing Demographics (Older Population) and Advancement in Treatment Options.

I also ask Goehrs why EHR vendors and other digital health software vendors haven’t solved this problem already.  They all have some sort of medication management and clinical decision support and so why isn’t this enough?  This is an important question since I’m quite sure most hospitals and health systems think their EHR vendor is taking care of this.  In response to the question, Goehrs suggests that many doctors aren’t actually using the clinical decision support that’s in place and I add that some are annoyed by it.  Then, he offers the three major challenges that a useful clinical decision support system has to overcome: Information Not Relevant to That Patient, Poor UI, and Lack of Personalized Recommendations. He then shares what Synapse Medicine has done to address these three challenges.

Goehrs then dives into how an EHR vendor or other digital health company could integrate Synapse Medicine into their product, what that integration would look like, and how easy it is to integrate.  Plus, I ask him to share how he ensures a good user experience when a company decides to integrate with them.

Since prescription safety has such an impact, Goehrs also shares with us some stories he’s heard from his customers of where good clinical decision support has improved the lives of patients.  Finally, we ask him to share what he sees as the emerging trends in clinical decision support.

If you’re interested in what else can be done to address prescription safety and high quality clinical decision support, check out our interview with Synapse Medicine below.  Also, if you’ll be at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas, you can find them at Booth #5931 to learn more in person.

Learn more about Synapse Medicine: https://synapse-medicine.com/

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