The Claude Bernard drugs database is used since 2018 in pharmacies and medical practices in Romania and since 1985 by more than 150,000 healthcare professionals at European level. Its attributes: accuracy, completeness and continuous updating of information.
Since 2008, the Claude Bernard drugs database has been placed under the auspices of the French Health Authority (Haute Autorité de Santé), being recommended in the current activity of dispensing drugs as well as advising patients.
All the information in the Claude Bernard drugs database is validated, connected, centralized and updated both at the European and local level by a team of pharmacists and doctors from Cegedim Healthcare Romania, in accordance with the official data from the Romanian National Medicines and Medical Devices Agency (ANMDMR). This team also maintains the classified lists of products integrated into our applications and checks all information received through various channels (authorities, manufacturers, hospitals, distributors, pharmacies etc.) before it is published.
On the occasion of #MedSafetyWeek 2023, our team is happy to contribute through the Claude Bernard medicines database to the efforts of the entire global medical community to make medicines safer for all. Here are some of the main advantages of this unique tool integrated into our applications.
Advantages of the Claude Bernard drugs database
This database is an electronic medical directory to help healthcare professionals with information about product monography, dosage and therapeutic equivalences. Certain fundamental aspects in the day-to-day work of pharmacists and doctors benefit from the support of the Claude Bernard drugs database in particular:
- Assistance without coercion – The Claude Bernard database offers assistance in the activity of prescribing and dispensing medicines, without interfering with the decision of doctors or pharmacists regarding the medical act;
- Compliance with the drug selling authorization – Generated alerts are in conformity with the official information, according to the drug selling authorization and the summary of product characteristics;
- Non-interpretation rule – Generating an information or alert message does not imply any interpretation of the diagnosis by the drug database administrator. It is up to the prescribing physician or pharmacist to verify, by referring to the text of the monography, whether the issued alert actually applies to the prescription and the patient’s history;
- Independent funding – The Claude Bernard medicines database is the only database totally independent of any direct or indirect funding, public or private subsidies, advertising resources regardless of their origin (public or private institutions, associations, pharmaceutical companies).
Claude Bernard drugs database and Cegedim RX applications
Integrated in the Pharmec FarmacieTM / Pharmec CabinetTM / Pharmec Nova TM applications, the Claude Bernard database is a complete, reliable and safe drug database that provides all the necessary information to improve the daily work of doctors and pharmacists, in relation to each patient. Thus, this tool helps with:
- Dispensing medicines according to the medical prescription, but also in accordance with the profile of each patient according to physiological and pathophysiological parameters, co-morbidities, intolerances, allergies, special conditions such as pregnancy, breastfeeding etc.;
- Applying good practice rules regarding indications, contraindications, drug interactions, adverse effects etc. by displaying “alert” type messages when selecting some medicines;
- Bringing to “one click away” all the information necessary for the proper performance of the medical act, without interfering and without conditioning the prescribing activity;
- Quick access to drug monographies (chemical composition, therapeutic class, dosage by type of patient and type of condition, according to the summary of product characteristics).
