YouScript and Elsevier Collaborating to Incorporate Gene-based Prescribing and Reduce Alert Fatigue

Seattle, WA – YouScript and Elsevier are collaborating to bring individualized, relevant drug and dose optimization guidance to providers, pharmacists and patients wherever medication decisions are made. On February 2, 2017, Harding University published a randomized controlled trial in PLOS One in high-risk polypharmacy patients to incorporate pharmacogenetic data and YouScript’s clinical decision support system and compare results to a … Read More

YouScript.net Release Notes 2-13-2017

Welcome to the new and improved YouScript Precision Prescribing Software. We have made a number of quality of life changes and improvements to the software, check out the changes below. You may have to refresh your browser to ensure all the changes are available. Log in to YouScript. NEW: Complete makeover of our User Interface to reflect our new logo. … Read More

New Precision Medicine Study Confirms Dramatic Reduction in Readmissions and ER Visits

Use of pharmacogenetic testing supported by an appropriate clinical decision support tool reduces mortality and overall health resource utilization in patients treated with multiple medications Seattle, WA — YouScript, a proprietary clinical decision support tool designed to assist in medication therapy management, has been shown to reduce readmissions by 52 percent (p=0.007) and ER visits by 42 percent (p=0.045) in … Read More

Role of Clinical Decision Support Tools for Insurers

In an emerging market, health informatics companies are designing new and specific clinical decision support tools (CDS) with cost saving measures in mind. Many developers market their service as an upfront cost to long-term major savings. As defined by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, health informatics is the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, adoption, and application of IT-based … Read More

What to Watch for When Taking Dietary or Herbal Supplements

Have you ever taken a vitamin, herbal product or supplement? You’re not alone. In fact, an estimated one-quarter, up to one-half, of adults taking prescription medications also take dietary supplements according to an article by Mayo Clinic Staff. Have you ever wondered if there are any safety concerns with taking one of these products? Most people assume that vitamins and … Read More

New research shows YouScript cuts ER visits, hospitalizations

What if an under-used type of genetic testing combined with state-of-the-art clinical decision support software could cut ER visits by more than half and reduce hospitalizations by a third in the elderly? New research has found that the YouScript Personalized Prescribing System, combining pharmacogenetic testing and patented medication management software, can do just that. Preliminary data from a soon-to-be-published study … Read More

YouScript 8.0 brings user-sourced improvements to award-winning personalized prescribing software

  By Sarah Trowbridge Users asked, and YouScript Personalized Prescribing Software delivered. The end of July saw the launch of YouScript 8.0, which brings new features and improvements to software functionality, usability and content based on feedback from the healthcare providers who have made the software part of patient care. The update coincides with a complete redesign of the YouScript … Read More

Clinical decision support drug interaction alerts need overhaul, report finds

A new report recognizes the frustration physicians commonly have with drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts in clinical decision support software and presents a number of ways they could be improved. “Improving the usability of DDI decision support is essential because patient safety is compromised when clinicians perceive DDI alerts as unimportant because of poor presentation or lack of relevance,” authors Payne … Read More

Research reveals significant impact of drug-gene and drug-drug-gene interactions

Why do some patients react differently to the same drug? A study using data analyzed by the YouScript Personalized Prescribing Software has quantified the role genotypes may play in causing adverse drug reactions. The research, published in the journal Pharmacogenomics, showed that a combined 33.9 percent of all potential clinically significant drug interactions were due to drug-gene and drug-drug-gene interactions. These potential … Read More

‘Roadmap’ for nationwide health care IT interoperability released

Can nationwide interoperability across health care information technology systems be achieved by 2017? The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hopes so, and has released a roadmap for how to get there. The ONC, the federal agency at the forefront of promoting health care IT, has published a draft of their “interoperability roadmap,” which members of … Read More