Professional Associations

Partnering to improve patient care

Lexi-Comp activity pursues industry and student associations focused on enhancing productivity in their practice setting and providing exceptional patient care. These relationships expand our collaborative sales and marketing efforts, as well as increase association membership and participation.

Customized Marketing Programs

Through joint promotions, we are proud to offer the members of our partnering associations the following services and benefits:

• Access to Lexi-Comp's products and services at a special discounted price
• Purchasing opportunities through a customized webpage on our site
• Co-branded marketing activities that aid in expanding association membership

If you are interested in learning more about Lexi-Comp’s association partnerships, please contact us.

Current Association Partners

Through leadership and advocacy, the Alberta Pharmacists' Association (RxA) promotes and supports the value of Alberta pharmacists as primary health care providers. Founded in 2000, RxA is the voice for over 2,400 pharmacists province-wide. By teaming with Lexi-Comp, RxA is able to provide members with instant access to comprehensive clinical information and resources required for exceptional patient care. As a Canadian association, RxA is pleased to work with Lexi-Comp on enhancing its Canadian medical information content.

For more information on RxA, visit www.albertapharmacy.ca.

Lexi-Comp and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) have enjoyed a very successful book publishing partnership. APhA has provided editorial input, co-branded, and sold many of Lexi-Comp's portable drug references, including the Drug Information Handbook, Geriatric Dosage Handbook, Natural Therapeutics Pocket Guide, and the Pediatric Dosage Handbook. In early 2002, Lexi-Comp was chosen as the exclusive provider of online content for APhA members through the www.pharmacist.com web site (co-developed by APhA and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy or NABP). In addition, this co-marketing and sales agreement now includes all PDA software. Please visit the Pharmacist.com website for more information and APhA member discounts.

ASHP is the 30,000 member national professional organization that represents pharmacists who practice in hospitals and health systems. Members include pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who practice in inpatient, outpatient, home-care, and long-term care settings, as well as pharmacy students. ASHP publishes authoritative drug references through its AHFS Drug Information office. AHFS DI has been a widely respected source of drug information in hospitals for over 50 years. Recognized as an official compendium by the U.S. Congress, the AHFS DI suite of products has a longstanding policy of editorial independence from the influence of third parties.

AHFS DI and AHFS DI Essentials are now integrated within Lexi-Comp ONLINE, our Internet-based platform.

For more information on ASHP, please visit www.ashp.org.

The British Columbia Pharmacy Association is a voluntary association formed to represent the professional and economic interests of pharmacy and pharmacists in British Columbia. Currently we represent more than 640 pharmacies and 2,100 pharmacists in the province.

The association is provincially recognized as the premier organization serving the interests of pharmacy in B.C.

For more information, please visit http://www.bcpharmacy.ca.

Developed by the Canadian Medical Association, cma.ca is Canada's most popular physician portal, providing trusted and relevant content to Canadian physicians, medical students and residents throughout their careers. The only portal that is owned by Canadian physicians and made for physicians of all specialties and at every stage of their career, cma.ca offers countless valuable resources to doctors, enabling them to save time and money in their professional and personal lives.

For more information, go to www.cma.ca.

The Canadian Pharmacists Association is the leading provider of Canadian drug and therapeutic information. For more than 45 years, CPhA has published the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties, CPS, a vital drug reference for Canada’s health care practitioners. In 2007, CPhA celebrated 100 years of contributing to the health and safety of Canadians.

Through our innovative e-products, we are proud to provide the next generation of professional tools to help Canadian health practitioners make safe and informed drug and therapeutic decisions. e-Therapeutics+ combines the full power of CPhA’s Therapeutic Choices and e-CPS, the electronic version of the CPS, with Lexi-Comp’s Lexi-Interact. Centralized and user-friendly, e Therapeutics+ is Canada’s authoritative source for prescribing and managing drug therapy at the point of care, helping practitioners know what works when.

For more information on CPhA and our e-products, visit www.pharmacists.ca/et.

The National Community Pharmacists Association is happy to be working with Lexi-Comp to offer our members an array of exceptional tools that will help community pharmacists continue to offer excellent service to their patients. NCPA, founded in 1898 as the National Association of Retail Druggists (NARD), represents the pharmacist owners, managers, and employees of more than 24,000 independent community pharmacies across the United States. The nation's independent pharmacies, independent pharmacy franchises, and independent chains dispense nearly half of the nation's retail prescription medicines.

For more information, visit www.ncpanet.org.

The Pharmacists Society of the State of New York is the oldest and largest pharmacy association in New York State dedicated to uniting pharmacists for mutual assistance, encouragement and improvement in order to maintain the standard of pharmacy practice at a high professional and ethical level. Our top priorities include promoting and protecting the profession, providing valuable member benefits and creating a strong sense of community within our organization. We are comprised of 14 regional affiliates which host meetings on a regular basis featuring guest speakers and continuing education opportunities.

For more information visit us at: www.pssny.org