Drug and medical device knowledge provider First Databank, Inc. (FDB) has launched a new medical device knowledge platform, FDB Prizm™. The platform, comprising a structured and categorised medical device knowledge base made available via web service APIs, enables actionable insight on medical devices within healthcare information systems to help improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. FDB unveiled FDB Prizm at the HIMSS 2017 Conference.
FDB Prizm delivers valuable medical device knowledge that supports intelligent decisions and drives efficient management, documentation, billing and monitoring of medical device products, helping healthcare organisations to reduce costs, and enhance supply chain operations and clinical quality. It supports standardisation and categorisation of products for functional equivalence, as well as provides descriptive, clinical and economic attributes and codes.
Medical device knowledge in FDB Prizm covers products that are implanted in patients such as hip replacements, pacemakers, and stents; surgical instruments and medical supplies such as catheters, forceps, gloves, gauze and syringes; hospital and durable medical equipment (DME) such as imaging systems, patient monitors, wheelchairs, and diabetic supplies.
The content comes from a variety of sources including medical device manufacturers, industry data pools, providers, and government agencies and includes identifying information as well as clinical, operational, and financial attributes and codes. FDB’s experienced knowledge engineers take this vast amount of disparate data pertaining to more than six million medical devices and apply standardization and validation processes that have been proven for decades in medication knowledge management.
The FDB Prizm medical device knowledge is made available to users through web service APIs to ensure fast and up-to-date access to the information. This significantly reduces the device library maintenance burden for customers and ensures that users have the latest information without disruption to their workflow.
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