AMIA Corporate Partners
First Databank (FDB)
First Databank (FDB), a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, delivers drug knowledge that improves medication-related decisions to enhance clinical care, patient safety and healthcare outcomes worldwide.
First Databank (FDB)
Company Overview
First Databank (FDB) provides drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise medication-related decisions. With thousands of customers worldwide, FDB enables our information system developer partners to deliver a wide range of valuable, useful, and differentiated solutions. As the company that virtually launched the medication decision support category, we offer more than three decades of experience in transforming drug knowledge into actionable, targeted, and effective solutions that improve patient safety and healthcare.
HQ Location: South San Francisco, CA
Specialties: Integrated and referential drug knowledge; Drug Pricing and Analysis Software, Medication Decision Support Tools; Consulting Services
Product Lines: FDB MedKnowledge™, FDB OrderKnowledge™, FDB AlertSpace™, Evaluations of Drug Interactions™, AHFS Drug Information Monographs, PricePoint Rx™
Website: www.fdbhealth.com
Expert Profiles
Gregory H. Dorn, MD, MPH, President
Specialties: Health Services Research, General Surgery
Interests: Decision Support - Clinical, Financial and Operational
Contact Info: gdorn@fdbhealth.com, LinkedIn
Publications: Co-inventor of two healthcare software technologies: Structured Data Authoring and Editing System (Patent No. 7945453 & Patent No. 7822626)
Charles Tuchinda, MD, MBA, Vice President, Innovation
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Applied Clinical Informatics
Interests: Decision Support – Clinical, Financial, and Operational, Reducing Healthcare Costs, Web Application Development, Entrepreneurship, Financial Modeling, Health IT Investing
Contact Info: ctuchinda@hearst.com, ctuchinda@fdbhealth.com, LinkedIn
Publications:
- Tuchinda C, Thompson WR. "Cardiac auscultatory recording database: delivering heart sounds through the Internet." Proc AMIA Symp. 2001; 716-20. PubMed ID: 11825279.
- Thompson WR, Hayek CS, Tuchinda C, Telford JK, Lombardo JS. "Automated cardiac auscultation for detection of pathologic heart murmurs." Pediatric Cardiology. 2001 Sep-Oct;22(5):373-9. PubMed ID: 11526409.
- Hayek CS, Thompson WR, Tuchinda C, Wojcik RA, Lombardo JS. "Wavelet processing of systolic murmurs to assist with clinical diagnosis of heart disease." Biomed Instrum Technol. 2003 Jul-Aug;37(4):263-70. PubMed ID: 12923978.
Tom Bizzaro, RPh, Vice President, Health Policy and Industry Relations
Specialties: Medication-related interoperability requirements; healthcare messaging and vocabulary standards
Interests: AMIA Advisory Council
Contact Info: tbizzaro@fdbhealth.com, LinkedIn
Joan Kapusnik-Uner, PharmD, Manager, Disease Decision Support
Specialties: Pharmacoinformatics, Drug Information and RxNORM
Interests: Clinical Decision Support; Interoperability
Contact info: jkapusnik-uner@fdbhealth.com
Publications: AMIA presentation abstract 2011, “An Approximate Matching Method of Clinical Drug Names”; Book chapter, “Health Care Data Communication Standards”, written for Building Core Competencies in Pharmacy Informatics (eds. Fox, Thrower and Felkey)
Literature
White Papers
- CPOE FOR MEDICATIONS: Leveraging Embedded Drug Content to Maximize Clinical Decision Support and Project Success
- FDB OrderKnowledge: Introducing CPOE-Ready Drug Content
- THE PROMISE OF ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING: Harnessing Drug Information to Drive Patient Safety and Clinician Efficiency
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