Provider Search By Brand vs Generic

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Wed, 11/16/2016 - 16:06

DiAnthia Patrick

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Provider Search By Brand vs Generic

I wanted to poll the group to see how your Health Information System is set up for providers to search for a drug name. We're doing some clean ups in our system and we decided to revisit this decision since part of the system clean-up revealed that it's inconsistent.

Specifically:
1. Are all the drugs searchable by both brand and generic
2. Are only a subset of drug categories searchable by both brand and generic---otherwise only generic? Which categories..
3. Are drugs only searchable by generic name.

Thanks.
D.Patrick

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