The choice of electronic clinical information resources is as important to education excellence as the selection of book references.

Our 'student' products—for nursing students, medical students, and training physicians—are complete, fully-capable professional databases that are organized the way subjects are taught and learned. Recent studies demonstrate that PEPID can be a key contributor to better education and clinical performance for both physicians and nurses.

A project at Duke University School of Nursing showed that adopting PEPID on PDAs can make significant contributions to the development of leadership skills, enhanced learning, reinforcement of core knowledge, and building student confidence. Students used PEPID software for quick access to information on drugs, drug interactions, and specific diseases; nursing considerations, procedures, and protocols. Using PEPID, students better understood the patient situation and potential nursing interventions. The project also found that PDAs are especially useful in clinical settings, where other resources may not be readily available (White, et al).

A University of Toronto study shows that physicians using PEPID on PDAs improved their clinical performance by 50 percent. The physicians who did not use PEPID showed no improvement. The researchers noted that doctors, who used books and other traditional references, took from 10 to 15 minutes to find answers to clinical questions — when they bothered to look them up at all. Those using PEPID software found their answers in an average of 19 seconds. The study concludes that physicians who use a handheld device to access medical information improve the speed and quality of their diagnoses (Lapinsky, et al).

In an independent study sponsored by Georgetown University Medical Center, PEPID™ Portable Drug Companion (PDC) scored highest on a combination of the features that mean the most to clinical practitioners including structured information on indications and dosing, side effects, drug interactions, and special features like medical calculators and treatment algorithms. PEPID PDC is fully-integrated into our student products.

PEPID is delivered all ways: as PDA software or web service; online and wireless. Our databases are available for individual or multiple users. PEPID offers site licenses for entire schools, departments, and medical libraries. Faculty and students can access PEPID anytime, anywhere with a desktop, laptop, mobile cart or a wireless handheld device.

PEPID Integrator Solutions

No matter what platform(s) your institution prefers, flexible PEPID™ INTEGRATOR Solutions make school-wide implementations fast and easy. You can integrate our complete clinical and drug database, or parts of it. No one else provides the medical education community with so many ways to infuse electronic information support into classroom, learning laboratory, clinical, and study settings.

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PEPID™ PDA Platforms take advantage of native OS to provide a robust, proven solution to wire-free mobility. Regular download or smart card updates keep content current with the latest medical and clinical information and services. It is the answer where online or wireless connectivity is inadvisable or non-existent. PEPID PDA software is often infused along with PEPID™ Online to provide a mobile plus Internet solution for an entire institution.

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PEPID™ INTERNET Online can be used by anyone with an Internet connection and a browser. Access PEPID anytime, anywhere with a desktop, laptop, mobile cart or a wireless handheld device—just connect to the Web. Multiple concurrence product suites are just a click away. PEPID supports auto-login for an entire site via IP authentication.

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PEPID™ WIRELESS Mobile can be used everywhere wireless service is available. No downloading and installation on a PDA is required. No updating required because the wireless environment is supported by our host server. Easy access and simple implementation are driving factors behind using wireless.

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PEPID INTRANET Online is an ideal solution for large healthcare systems, hospitals, medical centers and universities. Installs simply from one complete SQL bundle for access behind your firewall to all three PEPID solutions—Internet, Wireless, and WEB Services. Easily customized, it is the perfect solution for security-minded institutions and organizations.

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PEPID™ WEB Services allow institutions to create and implement tailored, more unique applications for wired and wireless PCs; and wireless PDAs. By enabling applications to easily share data across different hardware platforms and operating systems, WEB Services provide many advantages including API customization of all display and data outputs. With WEB Services, you can create and supply custom applications that best meet your information strategies.

Student-Focused Interfaces & Database Options

Information professionals can develop totally customized UIs. Or, integrate PEPID pre-built interfaces and data bundles—the quickest and easiest way to offer specialty-focused decision support. All options may include Institutional Notes that support embedded system-wide alerts, and customizable SOPs.

Software options include our number one rated drug database† for professionals, consumer drug information, and laboratory manual. Specialty-focused bundles include physician resources for emergency, pediatric, primary, hospital and ambulatory care; RN informatics for general, ONS oncology, and critical care nursing; pre-hospital emergency for paramedics and EMTs; medical and nursing students.

Because PEPID offers so many in-depth resource options, every healthcare organization can deliver tailored content solutions that best meet their needs; and the needs of every member of their staff.

In addition to delivering beginning fundamentals and essentials, PEPID student products also contain full-blown professional databases. Each integrates complete treatment and support tools—including our #1 rated drug database—into one application.


FOR STUDENT NURSING:

PEPID™ RN Student Clinical Companion Database (RN SCC) provides the foundation information that is essential for beginning practitioners including Nursing Process, Nursing Diagnosis, Documentation, Communication and more. It is an invaluable resource for beginning practitioners, and a complete clinical nursing resource, with clinical and drug information, detailed nursing considerations, calculators (including IV drip rates), drug interactions generator, high resolution illustrations and rhythm strips and more.

PEPID RN SCC is designed to support curriculum; not compete with existing programs. It has been described by educators as a “nursing instructor’s dream” with assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation presented in a standard instruction sequence. The content covers everything students need to know: from what to look for to communicating with the patient and JCAHO considerations.

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FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AND PHYSICIANS IN TRAINING:

Packed with pearls from experienced practitioners, PEPID™ Clinical Rotation Companion Database (CRC) is the ideal mobile information software for all medical students and training physicians. As they move between classrooms, libraries, hospitals and clinics, PEPID CRC travels with them to deliver authoritative information that is specifically designed for the clinical rotation. Rotation-specific topics include step-by-step instructions for patient history and physical exam, admit and discharge orders, SOAP notes, cross-coverage protocols and more.

PEPID CRC delivers evidence-based Clinical Inquiries™ and Help-Desk Answers™ to your students’ fingertips. Inclusion of this exclusive evidence-based medicine is the result of a unique collaboration between PEPID and the prestigious Family Physicians Inquiries Network™ (FPIN). Using PEPID CRC, training physicians not only have patient treatment recommendations, they also have the research to back them up.

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CRITICAL CARE NURSING:
PEPID and the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) have partnered to create PEPID™ RN Critical Care Database (RNCC). Advanced practice nurse authors designated by the NACNS have provided the critical care content. Following PEPID's commitment to provide comprehensive clinical information in all specialties, PEPID RNCC includes content throughout all specialty areas with an expanded and in depth approach to critical care nursing.

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ONCOLOGY NURSING:
Developed with the Oncology Nursing Society, PEPID™ RN ONS Database addresses virtually every clinical oncology situation. Specialty content includes everyday tools and scales, oncology emergencies, anti-emetic guidelines, symptom management, Carboplatin calculators, integrated weight-based calculators, and BSA-based dosing calculators. Dosing Carboplatin is quick and easy with PEPID’s embedded, pre-populated dosing calculators and AUC calculators.

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PEDIATRICS:
PEPID™ Pediatrics Database (PEDS) assists all physicians caring for children. The result of a unique collaboration between Emergency Physicians and the University of Chicago, this is the most comprehensive point-of-care emergency and primary care resource available. The content includes in-depth genetic, communication, and learning disorders. Adolescent Topics and Issues covers gynecology, reproductive, and contraceptive information; privacy, eating disorders, illegal drugs and substance abuse, and suicide prevention.

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EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES:
PEPID™ Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Database (EMS), for paramedics and EMTs, integrates the full spectrum of pre-hospital emergency treatment and support tools. Signs and symptoms, assessment, interventions and transport issues are instantly accessible. SOPs are easily customized to meet local requirements.

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In an independent study sponsored by Georgetown University Medical Center, PEPID™ Portable Drug Companion scored highest on a combination of the features that mean the most to clinical practitioners including structured information on indications and dosing, side effects, drug interactions, and special features like medical calculators and treatment algorithms. In addition to our professional products, PEPID’s consumer drug database provides easily understood consumer information that is ideal for patient education and discharge.

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PEPID™ Laboratory Manual Database (LM) provides detailed information on over 300 laboratory tests including physiology, critical values, common uses and ordering points, method differences, normal references, and related tests. High/low interpretations are linked to symptoms and treatments; equations are linked to embedded calculators.

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PEPID partners with The National Association of Emergency Medical Services Educators, the Family Physicians Inquiries Network, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, the Oncology Nursing Society, and the American Society of Health System Pharmacists to ensure that PEPID provides the highest quality content and commendable peer review.