FDB Launches Clinical Decision Support Analytics Solution

FDB announced the launch of FDB CDS Analytics™ at the 2021 HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas. The software solution enables healthcare organizations to easily identify, monitor and customize clinical decision support (CDS) in their electronic health record (EHR), which ultimately helps enhance clinician user experiences and advances CDS impact across all care areas to improve patient outcomes.

FDB is launching CDS Analytics with the Indianapolis-based Community Health Network as an early adopter. Community Health Network is a non-profit health system with more than 200 sites of care and affiliates throughout Central Indiana, integrating hundreds of physicians, eight specialty and acute care hospitals, surgery centers, home care services, MedCheck urgent care clinics, behavioral health, and employer health services.

"Community Health Network is excited to build a deeper partnership with FDB as an early adopter of FDB CDS Analytics," said Patrick McGill, MD, Chief Analytics Officer, Community Health Network. "We are constantly looking for opportunities to extend our analytics capabilities with innovations to more easily understand the impact of CDS. With FDB CDS Analytics, we gain a more thorough view of which clinical decision support is effective and which CDS rules are not working as intended, which enables us to identify opportunities for improved clinical decision support. With the evidence and education, we can then put these advanced CDS rules into practice, ultimately resulting in improved clinician user experiences, increased ROI and better patient care."

FDB CDS Analytics is a cloud-based web application that leverages the health system's data warehouse, along with FDB's highly respected drug knowledge and expertise, to offer pre-configured metrics and reports to track the effectiveness of decision support. The solution offers easy-to-understand dashboards designed for different roles within the organization, such as chief medical information officers, pharmacy directors, analysts and other stakeholders, and the ability to view trends across the entire institution, at the departmental level and even for the individual clinician.