What You Should Know:
– FDB (First Databank), a leading provider of drug knowledge solutions for healthcare professionals, announced today that its FDB Targeted Medication Warnings™ has received the new Toolbox designation from Epic Systems Corporation.
– The recognition places FDB’s solution within the Medication Dosing Decision Support Toolbox category of Epic’s new Showroom, a platform allowing healthcare providers to access applications from third-party developers.
Earning the Toolbox Designation
The Toolbox designation signifies that FDB Targeted Medication Warnings adheres to Epic’s recommended integration patterns and utilizes essential technologies. More importantly, it highlights the solution’s potential to deliver positive outcomes for both Epic customers (healthcare organizations) and their patients.
Optimizing Medication Decisions
FDB Targeted Medication Warnings belong to FDB’s PatientFirst™ suite of clinical decision support (CDS) solutions. This suite empowers hospitals and health systems to optimize medication guidance for individual patients. It leverages patient-specific data, such as lab results and risk scores, to ensure medication alerts and guidance are only presented when truly relevant to the current clinical scenario. This targeted approach, built on patient context, aids healthcare professionals in making informed medication decisions while reducing alert fatigue and the burden of excessive data searching.
Streamlined Integration and Improved Interoperability
Several factors contributed to FDB Targeted Medication Warnings receiving the Toolbox designation. A key factor is its recent integration with CDS Hooks*. This integration enables seamless delivery of FDB’s patient-focused prescribing guidance within Epic’s EHR system, as well as virtually any other electronic health record (EHR) system. CDS Hooks is a standardized protocol facilitating seamless data exchange, aligning with the SMART on FHIR (Substitutable Medical Applications & Reusable Technologies on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard.
Reduced Development Time and Enhanced Efficiency
The Toolbox designation emphasizes the use of FHIR resources where possible, minimizing reliance on manual data entry. Developers can activate FDB Targeted Medication Warnings through CDS Hooks using an application programming interface (API). This streamlines the integration process, reduces development time, and accelerates the solution’s availability for use.
Alignment with the 21st Century Cures Act
FDB Targeted Medication Warnings also support the patient-specific decision support requirements outlined in the 21st Century Cures Act. This act 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 healthcare IT environment, ensuring improved data exchange capabilities.
Availability
Epic customers interested in learning how FDB Targeted Medication Warnings can enhance clinical efficiency, improve patient safety, and elevate the quality of care can find more information on https://vendorservices.epic.com/Showroom/Listing?id=851
“We continually enhance FDB Targeted Medication Warnings so it is easy to integrate, simple to use, and delivers actionable guidance for prescribers and pharmacists within the EHR, enabling them to make safe, well-informed decisions with less time and effort,” said FDB President Bob Katter. “Earning the Toolbox designation from Epic is another demonstration of how we strive to make our solutions as seamless as possible from the point of implementation to go-live, and through every medication order and fulfillment.”
