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phactMI: Delivering accurate drug information to point of care, part II
Posted on March 31st, 2021 by Tom Williams in Medical Information
Part 2: The challenges that can restrict access to the latest and most accurate information on medications
Healthcare professionals are the ones tasked with safely prescribing, dispensing and managing medications. As mentioned in part 1 of this series, that puts them in the position of needing to know — or being able to quickly check — the latest information about a huge number of new and existing medical products.
(more…)phactMI: Delivering accurate drug information to point of care
Posted on March 2nd, 2021 by Tom Williams in Medical Information
Part 1: How healthcare professionals can access the latest and most accurate information on medications
Access to accurate, up-to-date information on medications helps healthcare professionals make better decisions. Before prescribing or dispensing a drug, it’s essential to have some insight into its behaviors — desired effect, required storage conditions, potential off-target effects, drug–drug interactions and so on. Physicians, nurse practitioners and pharmacy staff members demonstrate an incredible knowledge of drugs, built up through many years of point-of-care experience. This knowledge informs their clinical decisions.
(more…)How to Use Reaxys Reaction Data to Create Chemistry Models
Posted on February 11th, 2021 by Ani Marrs in Chemistry
These days, a chemist’s digital tools are as valued as the physical ones, and those digital tools are enabling chemists to do some amazing things in the lab. One example is predictive reaction chemistry, a thriving area with a rapidly-developing variety of algorithms and approaches.
(more…)Future of Pharma and RELX Reports Highlight Importance of Tech
Posted on January 29th, 2021 by Ann-Marie Roche in Pharma R&D
Innovation in pharmaceutical R&D is inextricably tied to technological advancement. Two recently-released reports further highlight how much success in pharma is now being driven by groundbreaking tech.
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