First Databank launches a new Medicines Optimisation Suite of Solutions at the LTC Conference
1 February 2012|Read more
First Databank is first clinical decision support provider to receive NICE accreditation
26 January 2012|Read more
Helix Health and First Databank partner to provide Ireland’s leading advanced pharmacy solutions
10 January 2012|Read more
ISOFT Primary Care Customer Day, Banbury
8 February 2012|Read more
ISOFT's All Wales Primary Care User Group
15 February 2012|Read more

1 February 2012
First Databank (FDBTM), the UK’s leading provider of drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support, will be launching their new solution suite, Medicines Optimisation, today at the Long Term Conditions (LTC) conference, in London (Stand 8).
Read article26 January 2012
First Databank (FDBTM) has become the first drug knowledge base and clinical decision support provider to be awarded accreditation by NICE’s Accreditation Programme. The NICE Accreditation Advisory Committee made its decision based on the process used to develop the clinical and medicines’ information and the editorial rigour implemented across FDB’s drug knowledge database, which underpins its products Multilex and FIRSTLight.
Read article10 January 2012
First Databank (FDB), the UK’s leading provider of drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support, today announced the continuation of the successful partnership with Helix Health. The contract provides Helix Health with FDB’s trusted clinical databases for the next three years. Helix Health is continuing to use FDB’s information within their product suite in the Republic of Ireland and UK, targeted towards hospital pharmacies and other healthcare sites. FDB’s drug knowledge forms a core part of Helix Health’s QicScript product range which is tailored to the community pharmacies both in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Read article7 November 2011
First DataBank, the UK’s leading provider of drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support, will be displaying the latest information around their new prescribing support module - Multilex Dose, at the EHi Live Event, NEC Birmingham.
Read article2 November 2011
Today, Neill Jones, Clinical Director at First DataBank is presenting to the NAPC Annual conference on the potential savings available from effective medicines management. The latest cost-savings and efficiency measures from the Coalition government focus responsibility towards the newly formed Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The CCGs will now be tackling these challenges whilst looking to balance the preservation of the quality of patient care, patient safety and staff engagement. This management responsibility has been passed down to the CCGs following the government’s ‘listening exercise’ that completed in June 2011.
Read article3 October 2011
First DataBank and Black Pear are offering stand visitors an exclusive extended licence for their FIRSTLight App, at the ‘Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology Expo’ that is taking place on 4 October 2011 at Olympia Two, London. Black Pear and First DataBank are offering this exclusive, time-limited, promotion to visitors to their stand in the Apps and Social Media area at the Expo.
Read article16 August 2011
First DataBank welcomed today’s (16 August 2011) announcement by the Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care on the approval of SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT) as a fundamental standard for use in all healthcare systems.
Read article4 August 2011
As the leading UK provider of clinical and cost based point of care decision support First DataBank welcomes the findings of the Kings Fund Inquiry into the quality of prescribing1. It highlights the multi-faceted natured of appraising the quality of decision making relating to the use of medicines.
Read article27 July 2011
First DataBank has today launched a new application (App) for their latest product, FIRSTLight, available to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. FIRSTLight is designed to provide clinicians with instant access to reliable medicines information and the new App will enable clinicians to access information wherever they are.
Read article5 July 2011
First DataBank, the UK’s leading provider of drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support, today announced the launch of its much anticipated new prescribing support module – Multilex Dose.
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