The Advantages of Gemscript

Gemscript provides detailed drug information relating to each drug item as well as robust decision support facilities. The benefits of Gemscript include:

• Extensive product information for each item, including pack sizes, prices, normal prescribing regimes.
• Contraindications, interactions, checks for drug doubling, prescriber warnings, mandatory instructions (to patient), side effects, high risk warnings and other product information.
• Allergy and sensitivity checks.
• Interaction information based on the BNF (British National Formulary) and SPCs (Summary of Product Characteristics) ensuring alerts are relevant to the selected patient.
• New, country specific, drug details, for example black lists.
• Prescriber specific drug selection, support for Nurse, Supplementary and Independent prescribers.
• Practice defined formularies with future plans for multiple formulary support.
• Details for special preparations.
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