Psychiatrists stay on top of patient views on Anti-psychotic drugs

April 25, 2012 - PRLog -- 80% of patients suffering from depression, schizophrenia & bipolar disorders use “Dr.Google” & other online services to research & share experiences about their conditions. As a result, more than ever, patients become informed before meeting with their Psychiatrists & come ready with printouts of other comparable patient experiences to figure out if any of the other patient experiences are applicable to their own. Ideally, Psychiatrists would like to stay on top of other patients’ perspectives that are shared online & be more prepared to handle such patient enquiries. However, for busy Psychiatrists, staying up-to-date on ever-changing information on the internet, is a full time job in itself.

To quickly understand patient perspectives without drowning in the complexity, Psychiatrists use PharmaFlare (http://www.pharmaflare.com), to track Anti-Psychotic drugs such as Abilify, Seroquel, Latuda, Fanapt & Zyprexa in a simple & concise way. PharmaFlare uses advanced web crawling technology to monitor thousands of internet forums, blogs & other internet resources to track patient conversations & discussions. All patient discussions are vetted by pharmaceutical domain experts & anonymized before presenting it in a concise & coherent manner. Key patient viewpoints are also cross-indexed to topics such as “Abilify vs Latuda” & “Seroquel dosage” & other relevant issues and topics that concerns patients.

Patients, Psychiatrists, & other physicians use this service because the ‘patient viewpoints’ feature of PharmaFlare is free for them & is extremely simple to use. To get started, Psychiatrists just need to request access by filling in a form on the PharmaFlare website (http://www.pharmaflare.com/request-access.html). Once they have been verified as legitimate physicians, the PharmaFlare team sends a fortnightly e-mail with a simple collection of the most relevant patient viewpoints in the Anti-psychotic market.

The information can also be accessed on the PharmaFlare website through their PC, iPhone, iPad & other devices for easy reference. When patients come in with any internet research to their office, Psychiatrists can easily refer to the information & let them know that they are aware of the latest patient viewpoints. Seeing their physician stay on top of the latest information, inspires confidence in patients on their choice of prescription.