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What you should know:
– FDB (First Data Bank)a leading provider of drug knowledge solutions for healthcare professionals, today announced that its FDB™ Targeted Drug Warnings received the new Toolbox designation from Epic Systems Company.
– This recognition places FDB’s solution in decision support regarding drug dosage Toolbox Epic's new releases category Exhibition rooma platform for healthcare providers to access applications from third-party developers.
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The Toolbox designation means that FDB Targeted Drug Warnings adhere to Epic's recommended integration models and use essential technologies. More importantly, it highlights the solution's potential to deliver positive outcomes for both Epic's customers (healthcare organizations) and their patients.
Optimizing medication decisions
FDB Targeted Drug Warnings are part of FDB's PatientFirst™ suite of clinical decision support (CDS) solutions. This suite enables hospitals and health systems to optimize medication counseling for each patient. It leverages patient-specific data, such as lab results and risk scores, to ensure that medication alerts and advice are only presented when they are truly relevant to the current clinical scenario. This targeted approach, grounded in patient context, helps healthcare professionals make informed medication decisions while reducing alert fatigue and the burden of excessive data searching.
Streamlined integration and improved interoperability
Several factors contributed to FDB's targeted drug warnings receiving the Toolbox designation. A key factor is its recent integration with CDS Hooks*. This integration enables seamless delivery of FDB's patient-centered prescribing advice within Epic's EHR system, as well as virtually any other system. electronic health record (EHR) system. CDS Hooks is a standardized protocol facilitating transparent data exchange, compliant with the SMART on FHIR (Substitutable Medical Applications & Realistic Technologies on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard.
Reduced development time and improved efficiency
The Toolbox designation emphasizes the use of FHIR resources where possible, minimizing the reliance on manual data entry. Developers can enable FDB targeted drug warnings via CDS hooks using an application programming interface (API). This streamlines the integration process, reduces development time and accelerates solution availability.
Alignment with the 21st Century Cures Act
FDB's targeted drug warnings also support patient-specific decision support requirements outlined in the 21st Century Cures Act. This law aims to promote interoperability and facilitate the seamless exchange of healthcare information. The addition of CDS Hooks further strengthens FDB's commitment to the Cures Act's vision of a more integrated health IT environment, ensuring enhanced data exchange capabilities.
Availability
Epic customers interested in learning how targeted FDB drug warnings can improve clinical effectiveness, improve patient safety, and improve quality of care can find more information at https://vendorservices.epic.com/Showroom/Listing?id=851
“We are continually improving FDB targeted drug warnings so that they are easy to integrate, simple to use, and provide practical guidance to prescribers and pharmacists within the EHR, allowing them to make safe, informed decisions with less hassle. time and effort,” said FDB. President Bob Katter. “Achieving Toolbox designation from Epic is another demonstration of how we strive to make our solutions as transparent as possible from the point of implementation through go-live, and through every order and dispensing medications.