HEALTHCARE SECTORS

The requirement for hospital staff to have access to up-to-date, comprehensive drug information is well established. The advent of ever more complex drug therapies and the drive to reduce preventable errors and adverse drug reactions make rapid access to this data an essential component of modern healthcare practice.

 The Multilex Drug Data File data gives you everything and is well referenced 
Chris Curtis, Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
For hospitals without clinical systems, First DataBank offers FIRSTLight a unique stand-alone medicines reference tool which gives healthcare professionals instant access to trusted information on any drug, online or on the move via iPhone or iPad. Accessible at any point in the clinical workflow, FIRSTLight is a valuable resource which can aid prescribing decisions, provide advice on inpatient medicines management, and support pharmacists with prescription reviews.

For hospitals with clinical systems, First DataBank's Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF) can be integrated into a range of hospital inpatient and outpatient prescribing, e-discharge, transcribing and pharmacy dispensing and stock control systems as well as a number of specialist systems including dialysis, renal and oncology. For a full list of hospitals using our products, please click here.

 First DataBank always keep ahead of developments. 
Anita Jena-Smol, 
University College London Hospitals
When embedded within a hospital’s electronic prescribing or dispensing system, the Multilex Drug Data File provides active clinical decision support which streamlines the path to the prescribed drug and generates real-time, patient-specific alerts, such as drug interactions or contraindications to the use of a drug, if there are potential clinical problems.

In a hospital scenario, rapid changes to medications are common and clinical decision support is required at each stage of the patient’s care. Multilex DDF ensures that clinical decision support is provided at the point of decision making or transcribing rather than after the decision has taken place or after the patient has received the drug. It also reduces the amount of repetitive checks that occur manually, for example when patients transfer from one ward to another, or when a new drug chart needs to be created.

If further information on a drug is required, such as more detail on dose and administration, clinicians can consult Multilex DDF’s comprehensive referential information. 

This combination of active clinical decision support and referential information helps support and promote safe and effective prescribing, dispensing and administration activities across the organisation.

To read more about the benefits of Multilex DDF within secondary care, please refer to the case study links in the Related Documents section of this page.

 The data quality is very high 
Jonathon Ford, Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency