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In the wake of the pandemic, we have seen it all, the spiraling global public health crisis and the incapability of healthcare systems to tackle a global case load of never-before-seen proportions. But most importantly, it heightened the healthcare providers’ need for specific medical knowledge to make precise decisions regarding appropriate medication and swiftly respond to such disastrous times. Of all the factors contributing to help healthcare professionals gain adequate medical knowledge, digital medical solutions in the form of clinical and descriptive drug knowledge platforms have emerged as an essential pre-requisite. Numerous researchers are proposing novel methods for medication based on drug databases containing a wide variety of information.
Against this backdrop, FDB (First Databank), a leading drug and medical device database provider is on a quest to help healthcare professionals make precise decisions using integrated drug knowledge from innovative platforms. “We are advancing medication decision support with smart drug databases and patient adherence solutions,” states Dr. Mehmood Syed, Middle East Regional Managing Director of FDB.
Hospitals and healthcare providers in the Middle East are increasingly searching for a unified and up-to-date formulary that helps them guarantee medication safety and improve the quality of patient outcomes. On that note, FDB Meducation, a unique solution from FDB can help improve medication adherence and patient satisfaction. It delivers simplified medication instructions to all patients and becomes an integral part of the entire process of prescribing, dispensing, and administrating medication. As a cloud-based solution, FDB Meducation can be embedded directly in the electronic health records or pharmacy management system workflow.
FDB is currently working on significant enhancements for FDB MedKnowledge, an application framework that provides medication decision support and care guidance using a drug knowledge database, built specifically for the Middle East market.
It is a clinically adaptable IT solution with enhanced usability to help reduce medication errors and prevent adverse drug events. FDB MedKnowledge smoothly integrates into electronic patient record (EPR) and e-prescribing systems to support active clinical checking against a patient’s medication record, offering clinical staff, the support and information required to safely prescribe the most appropriate medications depending on the patient’s condition.
We are advancing medication decision support with smart drug databases and patient adherence solutions
Continuous enhancement and top-quality measures to drive differentiated solutions are the key factors driving FDB to be coveted as the most preferred drug knowledge provider in the Middle East. Amid a plenitude of success stories, Dr. Syed recalls an instance wherein FDB helped one of the biggest PBM companies across the region establish a rule engine which automates their claims processing functions and significantly reduces their cost for resources. Multiple integration options in FDB MedKnowledge drug database have made it easier for them to finalize a project in a very short term. Meanwhile, using FDB MedKnowledge, they were able to adjudicate a much larger volume of claims, more efficiently while ensuring patient safety and processing accuracy.
Building on numerous success stories, FDB is ready to expand its presence across the Middle East with its array of exclusive solutions. “Our goal is to not only support healthcare facilities to make the right decision while prescribing and dispensing medications, but to also enhance their internal workflow, data transfer and reporting mechanisms both internally and externally,” concludes Dr. Syed.
Company
FDB First Databank
Management
Mehmood Syed, Middle East Regional Managing Director, FDB First Databank
Description
FDB (First Databank), a leading drug and medical device database provider is on a quest to help healthcare professionals make precise decisions using integrated drug knowledge from innovative platforms. The company is currently working on significant enhancements for FDB MedKnowledge, an application framework that provides medication decision support and care guidance using a drug knowledge database, built specifically for the Middle East market. It is a clinically adaptable IT solution with enhanced usability to help reduce medication errors and prevent adverse drug events. Continuous enhancement and top-quality measures to drive differentiated solutions are the key factors driving FDB to be coveted as the most preferred drug knowledge provider in the Middle East
FDB First Databank News
FDB and WebMD Ignite Collaborate to Drive Medication Safety and Adherence
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO - FDB (First Databank), the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make more precise decisions, and WebMD Ignite, a full-service growth partner for organizations across the healthcare industry, today announced a collaboration to enhance patient discharge education to improve prescription drug safety and adherence. The collaboration also aims to increase patients' health literacy and engagement in care plans.
WebMD Ignite will integrate content from Meducation®, FDB's cloud-based solution that delivers simplified and personalized medication instructions to all patients, into prescribers' electronic health record (EHR) systems and patient portals through WebMD Ignite's Krames On FHIR® platform.
Krames On FHIR is the leading patient education platform providing current educational content directly in the patient portal. With this new integration, clinicians will be able to easily access Meducation at the point of discharge, generating personalized medication instructions and offering educational content for patients at different levels of reading comprehension and health literacy. Meducation is available in more than 30 languages and helps patients understand how, when, and why to take their medications.
The collaboration aims to drive safer, more effective care as recent research shows that only 43% of patients recently discharged from the hospital correctly recalled information about their medication regimens. Forgetting or incorrectly taking medications can lead to adverse drug events that are responsible for more than 1 million emergency department visits per year, a quarter of which result in hospitalizations.
"Effective patient medication education is critical to improving patient outcomes," said Charles Lee, MD, senior director of clinical knowledge and senior advisor for health literacy and language barriers at FDB. "We need to do more to prevent dosing errors and help patients understand why they are taking their medications. This integration of Meducation with WebMD Ignite's Krames On FHIR platform offers patients of all backgrounds simplified, easy-to-follow, actionable medication instructions, along with other valuable educational content from WebMD Ignite, to help protect their and their family's safety, increase care plan adherence and improve their outcomes."
Brennan Stratton, WebMD Ignite vice president of Client Services, said: "Delivering accurate, easy-to-understand educational content is an essential aspect of high-quality care delivery, but finding simplified and trustworthy content that is suitable for all types of patients can be difficult and time-consuming for prescribers and patients alike. The enhancement of WebMD Ignite's Krames On FHIR platform with FDB's Meducation content will help alleviate all stakeholders from these lengthy searches for reliable drug information, so they can instead focus on achieving the best health outcomes and strengthening engagement."