Julie Perron

March 19, 2019

Company of bioMérieux

Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada)– October 25th, 2017 Lumed, a leading-edge software firm with a mission to optimize infectious diseases clinical practice, improve antimicrobial governance, and enhance the quality of patient care, was acquired by bioMérieux, a […]

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Julie Perron

January 5, 2022

Something new at Lumed about the pharmacokinetics module

A calculator, harmonized with the latest guidelines, has been added to determine an initial regimen for vancomycin, or to perform calculations when two serum levels are available, for serious MRSA infections (Am J Health-Syst Pharm […]

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Julie Perron

December 6, 2021

APSS: an offer you can’t refuse!

Researchers have shown that APSS, our Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS), integrated into an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP), reduces the median duration of antimicrobial treatment, and has just over 90% of its recommendations accepted. https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-021-06682-8 […]

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Julie Perron

November 29, 2021

Optimizing antimicrobial prescriptions in obese patients.

APSS, a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS),has demonstrated a positive impact on optimizing antimicrobial prescriptions in obese patients. https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-021-06682-8 Some antimicrobials are often underdosed or are prescribed by using suboptimal dosages in the context of […]

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Julie Perron

November 9, 2021

Something new at Lumed, in the antimicrobial stewardship module (APSS).

A calculator has been added to provide a decision support tool to optimize the efficacy and limit the toxicity of colistin. The advantage of the calculator is its availability from a patient’s review screen and […]

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Vincent Nault

March 20, 2019

Tired of alert fatigue?

Unfortunately, alerts are a too common sound in our hospital’s landscape, too many alerts generate a form of desensitization. When specifically looking at Clinical decision supports systems (CDSS), these desensitizations have a direct correlation to […]

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Louis Valiquette

March 19, 2019

The syndromic approach is the future antimicrobial stewardship assisted by computerized expert systems

Clinical decision systems are getting more and more specialized and their capacity to integrate clinical data, sometimes in real time, brings new opportunity to interact with the prescribers at a higher level.

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