FDB (First Databank) is the leading provider of 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 outcomes.
Our vision: We seek to create "a world free of medication errors." It is an aspiration that unites our
employees behind a common purpose and is an opportunity for use to make a difference. Our
mission: to deliver solutions that improve medication-related decisions to enhance clinical care,
patient safety and healthcare outcomes worldwide. Our solutions include: FDB MedKnowledge™ –
the most widely used and relied upon drug knowledge base in the North America FDB
OrderKnowledge® – pre-built medication order knowledge base to enable physicians to specify
precisely the medications they need in the fewest possible steps FDB MedsTracker® – a robust
electronic medication reconciliation solution that interfaces with a hospital’s primary healthcare
information system vendor FDB AlertSpace® – a web-based solution that enables easy, institutionspecific
modification of medication alerts using FDB MedKnowledge clinical modules based on
clinician input, localized clinical experience, and other available evidence FDB is part of the Hearst
Health network whose mission is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital
information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey.
