Application for an Electronic Medication Management Support System

External computerized decision support system (CDSS: RpDoc® eMMa Software, RpDoc® Solutions GmbH, Saarbruecken) provides drug-therapy relevant information about participating patients with polypharmacy on demand to the general practitioners (GPs) such as data about diagnoses and treatments. The information is based on claims data gathered from all health care professionals involved in the care of the patient (e.g. specialized physicians, other GPs, psychotherapists as well as data about hospital stays and prescription data from pharmacies).

GPs can add and modify patient's data within the CDSS (e.g. remove drugs which are not taken by the patient anymore, add most recent laboratory findings about kidney function etc.) to enrich and update claims data based information.

GPs systematically assess the appropriateness of the medication supported by the CDSS, which will alert in case of drug-drug, drug-disease, and drug-age interactions as well as other inappropriateness, such as prescriptions with regard to incorrect dosage or Dear Doctor letters.

GPs print out the updated medication plan including also recommendations for medication use and reasons for prescription in lay language (also available in foreign languages for patients with migration background) as well as recommendations on drugs to use / to avoid including over-the-counter drugs (OTC) (optional) and hand it out to the patient.

GPs receive guidance via the CDSS (e.g. recommendations addressing certain types of medication errors and high risk prescribing, developed by the German Society for Internal Medicine in collaboration with other scientific medical societies).