ADE ASSISTANT
Identify and prevent adverse drug events (ADE) in your hospital. The TheraDoc® ADE Assistant® delivers comprehensive, real-time tools for adverse drug event surveillance, prevention, detection, and reporting.The medications prescribed to your patients are a lifeline for recovery and health. They're also the leading cause of preventable deaths and illnesses in hospitals today. Each year, more than 770,000 people are injured or die during hospitalization from adverse drug events1. These devastating events take an astronomical financial toll, with annual costs soaring as high as $5.61,3 million per hospital each year—not counting litigation costs. Nationally, ADEs add between $1.562 and $5.6 billion1 annually to hospital expenses. To protect your patients and your hospital, you need a wide and sturdy net for detecting, assessing, documenting, and preventing ADEs. You need the TheraDoc® ADE Assistant®.
Prevent adverse drug events and respond rapidly when they occur. Combining evidence-based medical knowledge with on-site, real-time analysis of clinical data, the ADE Assistant gives you the tools you need to prevent or recognize and treat an ADE and halt its progression. Its active surveillance system helps you to identify problems in the medication-use process—to further improve patient safety and quality of care. The ADE Assistant continuously surveys patient data to identify risk factors. It also delivers prevention and detection alerts, as well as ADE treatment guidance, to support informed decision-making. Armed with these comprehensive tools, you'll have instant access to information that can help reduce ADEs in your hospital—and you can react quickly when they occur.
Learn from today's patients to help tomorrow's patients. To learn from adverse events and prevent them in the future, you need powerful root cause analysis tools. And with structured online causality assessment and severity scoring functionality, the ADE Assistant delivers. You'll be able to consistently prevent, recognize, evaluate and report ADEs within your daily workflow. Even better, you'll have reports for recognizing trends and system breakdowns, so you can learn from past experience—and implement measures to prevent them in the future.
Save lives—and save money. With the ADE Assistant, you'll boost staff productivity, rapidly combat ADEs, and reduce the hefty burden of litigation costs. Featuring an enhanced voluntary reporting interface and other automated reporting tools, the ADE Assistant increases the quality of your adverse drug event reports while dramatically decreasing the time it takes to create them. And by avoiding ADEs and the suffering they create, you can avoid unnecessary healthcare costs. In fact, for every ADE you avert, you can save as much as $4,600, not including associated liability expenses3. More importantly, you'll save patient lives—and you'll create a healthier hospital environment for everyone who enters your doors.
Get real results with the ADE Assistant.- PeaceHealth saves approximately $272,000 in annual healthcare costs.
- Utilizing existing staff, Franciscan Health System increased ADE interventions by 55-percent and prevented 222 more ADEs and saved in excess of 475,000 dollars.
- LDS Hospital has increased ADE detection by 80 percent and saves approximately $500,0002 in annual healthcare costs.
1 http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/aderia/aderia.htm
2 Classen et al: Adverse Drug Events in Hospitalized Patients: Excess Length of Stay, Extra Costs, and Attributable Mortality. JAMA 1997;277:301-6
3 Bates et al: The costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. Adverse Drug Events Prevention Study Group. JAMA 1997; 277:307-311
