Med-i-nets.com, a Newport Beach private start-up, is initiating a beta software program designed to reduce prescription errors in hospitals.
The expanding test program is currently in place at St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, and the Texas Cancer Center, Sherman, Texas.
Physicians using a hand-held PC can interactively communicate with local pharmacies to fill a prescription with the knowledge that the software program’s backend system is screening for the prescribed drug’s possible interaction with other drugs being administered to the patient, explained Ali Kharazmi, med-i-nets.com vice president and co-founder. The system will concurrently conduct a formulary screen for insurance acceptability of the prescribed drug, Kharazmi added.
Kharazmi founded the firm a year ago with Glen Jones, who is president. Med-i-nets.com has 20 employees. Its seven-member board includes four doctors.
