Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Adverse Events Launches New Website

Published on www.psqh.com

AdverseEvents, Inc. (AEI) Co-founder and President, Brian Overstreet, announced the launch of the AdverseEvents website—a first-of-its-kind online resource that delivers accurate, real-time information on adverse drug events. Users will now have the ability to quantify and fully understand the scope of patient safety issues based on accurate rates of side effects by using AEI’s easy-to-use, fully searchable database. AEI’s proprietary data set has applications for both healthcare professionals and patients.

There has been limited access to reliable drug side effect information. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) is the only current database of adverse event information but it is inaccessible, incomplete, filled with misspellings and misclassifications, and often out-of-date. Patients have been left to rely solely on drug labels, which can list hundreds of potential side effects with no insight into the real-world incidence or outcome rates. This lack of information has left patients and healthcare professionals confused, and often misinformed about real-world drug safety risks.

To solve this major healthcare challenge, AEI has developed RxFilter™, a proprietary 17-step data refinement process that standardizes and normalizes the FDA’s AERS into an accessible, comparative database of all FDA approved medications. It is the only resource that utilizes the RxFilter process to combine all the varied designations for a medication found in AERS into a single report, and standardizes the AERS data for improved accuracy of adverse drug event information. This dramatically improves the search and alert functionality for side effect information, data analysis and outcomes data, and provides the only comparison views of a drug and its side effects. AEI’s data will increase transparency throughout the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.

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