Decision support system on medication safety made free amid COVID-19 pandemic
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The Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics announced that its web-based decision support system for medication safety will be free to medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The decision support system (MedSafety Scan, AZCERT) is designed to warn providers when patients are prescribed drugs that place them at risk for developing torsades de pointes, according to a press release from the center.
Medications being tested or prescribed for COVID-19 treatment such as chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin have been known to cause torsades de pointes, and the effect is more common among patients with conditions commonly found in those who get very ill from COVID-19, according to the release.
“Our goal is to equip health care providers with this important prescribing tool as they face this global crisis,” Raymond L. Woosley, MD, PhD, founder and president of AZCERT, professor of medicine and co-director of the Clinical Data Analytics and Decision Support Division in the College of Medicine-Phoenix at the University of Arizona and a Cardiology Today Editorial Board member, said in the release.
Providers can access the support system for free via medsafetyscan.org.
Disclosure: Woosley is the founder and president of AZCERT, a nonprofit organization.
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