Media Contact: Jeanie Ryan
Ph. 603-235-5266
Email: jeanie@enhancedmd.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Enhanced Medical Decisions, Inc. -- A Health Information Technology (IT) Innovator -- Today Announces DoubleCheckMD.com (Beta) -- A Powerful, First-Ever, Online Medical Search Technology That Empowers Users To Quickly And Easily Find Accurate Information On Drug Interactions and Reactions
Time-saving, Easy-to-use "Natural Language" Search Technology Helps Consumers and Medical Professionals Quickly Find Drug Side Affects and Interactions
CAMBRIDGE, MA, September 20, 2007 -- Enhanced Medical Decisions, Inc., a health information technology (IT) innovator dedicated to creating solutions for U.S. healthcare issues -- today announces DoubleCheckMD.com ( Beta) -- a powerful, first-ever, online medical search technology that empowers users to quickly and easily find accessible, accurate information on drug interactions and side affects. Consumers and medical professionals will save vast amounts of time and eliminate irrelevant searches while using DoubleCheckMD.com's groundbreaking "natural language" search technology. This technology can determine whether any of the following may be causing adverse symptoms or reactions individually or together: prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, vitamin supplements and herbal substances.
Current U.S. statistics* on Adverse Drug Reactions include:
- Adverse Drug Reactions are the fourth leading cause of death;
- There are over two million serious Adverse Drug Reactions each year;
- Adverse Drug Reactions account for approximately 100,000 deaths each year;
- One out of five injuries or deaths to hospitalized patients each year is caused by Adverse Drug Reactions.
* U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
"With the current state of the U.S. healthcare industry, the record numbers of prescriptions Americans are taking and the vast potential for adverse drug interactions and reactions, we created DoubleCheckMD.com to help consumers and medical professionals quickly cut through overwhelming amounts of data to access important and sometimes critical, lifesaving information," says Marlene Beggelman, M.D., Founder, Enhanced Medical Decisions, Inc., and DoubleCheckMD.com. "With over two million serious adverse drug reactions each year in the U.S., we thought DoubleCheckMD.com was a much-needed technology solution that could empower consumers and improve lives."
DoubleCheckMD.com (Beta) helps consumers and medical professionals:
- Identify drug-related symptoms faster than any other system.
- Have access to and share information that was previously available only to medical professionals.
- Use proprietary "natural language" medical search technology to accurately understand what users are trying to say and provide them with clear, targeted results.
- Learn about the drug interactions and reactions for prescription drugs, over-the-counter and many herbal preparations/medications.
- Identify drug-related symptoms that might otherwise have been missed.
- Potentially decrease unnecessary invasive testing when medications are the cause of symptoms.
After previewing DoubleCheckMD.com (Beta) today at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Enhanced Medical Decisions, Inc. plans to continue finalizing DoubleCheckMD.com and launch in 2008.
For more information or interviews, please contact Jeanie Ryan (jeanie@enhancedmd.com ) at 603-235-5266 or Drew Schulthess (drew@enhancedmd.com
) at 603-430-1110 ext. (111).
Enhanced Medical Decisions, Inc.:
Enhanced Medical Decisions is a health information technology (IT) company that develops advanced "natural language" technology solutions to address healthcare industry issues in the U.S. Enhanced Medical Decisions delivers detailed, personalized, understandable and often critical medical information to consumers and medical professionals. Founded in 1999, the Cambridge, MA-based company is led by Harvard-trained physician and medical technology innovator, Dr. Marlene Beggelman, and a team of software engineers. Enhanced Medical Decisions was a FierceHealthIT "Top IT Health Innovator for 2007." For more information, please see: www.enhancedmd.com.