PDR HELPS DOCTORS HELP PATIENTS WITH NEW DIGITAL SERVICE
Online Patient Resource Guide Provides One-Stop Access for Physicians
PDR Network today announced the launch of the PDR® Patient Resource Guide for Physicians – a first-of-its-kind digital database for physicians to access and distribute resources to their patients in order to help patients understand, manage and pay for their medications.
The PDR® Patient Resource Guide for Physicians provides physicians with a single digital resource available online, via mobile or within their Electronic Health Record (EHR) system – helping physicians help their patients understand, afford and stay on their medications.
There are literally thousands of patient education, support and adherence programs that are available in hundreds of locations on the web and via mobile services. The PDR® Patient Resource Guide for Physicians aggregates, organizes and delivers Patient Resources to physicians via a single service integrated into physician workflow. A recent PDR Network survey of prescribing physicians underscores the need for this service, with 84 percent of physician respondents agreeing that they would find such a service useful and valuable. PDR Network has contracts with all major pharmaceutical firms and this new service is included as a value-added program available to all PDR Network pharmaceutical clients within the PDR® Drug Information Service.
“Manufacturers today face a greater challenge than ever in getting their information and services to busy physicians and other prescribers,” said Edward Fotsch, MD, CEO, PDR Network. “With the PDR® Patient Resource Guide for Physicians, we are helping pharmaceutical manufacturers meet prescribers' and patients' needs- helping the doctors help the patients.
The PDR® Patient Resource Guide for Physicians is the latest of PDR’s services for pharmaceutical manufacturers integrated into EHRs and other digital platforms – following on the launch of RxEvent, an online service for reporting and routing adverse drug events. The PDR® Patient Resource Guide for Physicians allows brand managers to differentiate their products from their competitors’, while driving physician and patient traffic to brand-specific resources, programs and websites.
PDR® Drug Information Service
PDR® Drug Information Services provides PDR’s trusted and authoritative drug information and clinical content to prescribers, offering pharmaceutical manufacturers a critical, cost-effective way to reach physicians at the point of care. With PDR® Drug Information Service, prescribers are provided a broad suite of drug regulatory and marketing services, including the recently launched RxEvent adverse drug event reporting platform, as well as FDA-approved labeling, PDR® Drug Alerts, REMS programs and CME, product support and medication adherence programs. The PDR® Drug Information Service empowers physicians to prescribe with all the drug information and support that they and their patients need. This cross-channel communication service provides information via print, online, mobile or directly though available electronic health record platforms, delivered to nearly half a million U.S. prescribers and used more than 70 million times each year*.
For more information about this, or any PDR Network product, please visit www.pdrnetwork.com.
About PDR Network
PDR Network, LLC is the leading distributor of FDA-approved drug labeling information, product safety Alerts and REMS programs, including the Physicians’ Desk Reference® (“PDR”) – the most highly trusted drug information reference available, distributed to nearly 500,000 U.S. physicians and pharmacists and used by prescribers over 70 million times a year. PDR Network provides innovative products and services to deliver industry-leading content across channels, including PDR.net®, mobilePDR®, PDR®3D™ and directly through electronic health record platforms. PDR Network – the trusted leader in aggregating healthcare information for more than 65 years.
PDR Network is the industry’s #1 source of trusted and reliable drug information for prescribers by pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, the government and electronic health record system developers. For more information, visit www.pdrnetwork.com.
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*Based on PDR Network’s Annual Survey of Physicians 2011.