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“Should I take weight loss medications?” Right now, opinions about weight loss medications are all over the place. Here are some of the things you might want to deliberate and discuss with your doctor, before considering antiobesity medications.   “Like any drug, antiobesity medications cause side effects. The type of side effects depend on the medication prescribed, some of which are mild while others can be serious,” says Thomas So, PharmD, senior manager and clinical pharmacist, Consumer Drug Information Group at FDB.   These may include: ➡ Stomach issues, like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and constipation ➡ Bruising at the injection site ➡ Fatigue ➡ Dry mouth ➡ Insomnia ➡ Constipation ➡ Dizziness ➡ Heart palpitations Jill C., has the story via Very Well Mind: https://bit.ly/4eUBtGW | #WeightLossMeds #DrugKnowledge #MedSaety #ExpertAdvice #Pharmacists

True Story: A nurse at a Midwest hospital was brought to tears when her Russian-speaking patient couldn't understand discharge instructions, only available in English. She feared the patient might return to the hospital due to medication confusion.   ⚠ Are your nurses struggling to help patients understand how and when to take their medications due to a lack of the right tools?   💡 With FDB’s Meducation® solution, nurses can provide clear, easy-to-understand medication instructions—regardless of a patient’s language, age, or medical complexity—directly through your EHR. https://bit.ly/45SLDUd   Meducation empowers nurses to: ✅ Confidently teach new medications with less stress ✅ Communicate effectively with multi-lingual patients and caregivers ✅ Create easy-to-follow medication adherence calendars, tailored to each patient   Talk to FDB at Booth #774 at the American Nurses Association's National Magnet Conference® about how we can help you take the pressure off your nurses and provide safer, better care for every patient.   Experience the ease through our Meducation game, and win prizes (did someone say Starbucks gift cards?) ☕💳💚   | #MagnetPTECon #Meducation #DrugKnowledge #MedSafety #HealthLiteracy #MedAdherence

Community pharmacists have always championed change in healthcare and personalized care for patients. So why stay stuck using antiquated workflow practices that can contribute to patient safety issues and pharmacist burnout?   Make the break from: ⚠ Overwhelming medication safety alerts that swamp your pharmacists and hinder their productivity ⚠ Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and health literacy issues that contribute to your patients’ lack of medication understanding and adherence ⚠ Old medication instruction technology that is cumbersome to use and expensive to maintain ⚠ Using an ePrescribing network that could be limiting your pharmacies' ability to innovate, further inhibiting pharmacist productivity, and posing some constraints on reducing fulfillment costs   Why stay stuck in the past when there is so much at stake in today’s healthcare environment? 😕   💡 Embrace the power of FDB's next-generation workflow tools and revolutionize your pharmacies.   🖱 To learn more, visit FDB at National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) at Booth #503, or online:  https://bit.ly/3PsBK9a | #NCPA2024 #Pharmacists #PtSafety #ClinicalWorkflows #BurnoutPrevention

Low health literacy is associated with more hospitalizations, greater use of emergency care, and higher mortality.   Greg O'Neill, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, NPD-BC, NEA-BC, ChristianaCare's Patient and Family Health Education Director, and Himani Divatia, DO, ChristianaCare's Associate Designated Institutional Official, join this episode to discuss the critical need for clear communication in healthcare, share examples of the Teach-Back method of understanding health instructions, and offer advice on how to better receive health information yourself.   FDB is pleased to support healthcare organizations like ChristianaCare in their initiatives to improve health literacy and understanding of medication instructions among patients and their families through our Meducation solution. Meducation helps healthcare organizations improve patients’ adherence with medication regimens and enhances patient outcomes by supplying clinicians with personalized, easy to understand, medication education materials that they can share with patients and family members directly from the EHR. These tools help providers facilitate discussions with patients about how to take their medications and aid post-discharge recall. https://bit.ly/45SLDUd   Listen now to this informative episode: https://apple.co/4hcuj2r | #HealthLiteracyMonth #HealthLiteracy #MedSafety #Meducation

FDB continues our salute to the nation’s pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and student pharmacists by joining ASHP in celebrating National Pharmacy Week.   This annual observance acknowledges the invaluable contributions pharmacists and technicians make to patient care in hospitals, ambulatory care clinics, and other healthcare settings. FDB is proud to support you in the vital role you play on the healthcare team to ensure medication use at your organizations is safe and that patients are achieving optimal outcomes from their treatments.   Learn more: ashp.org/pharmacyweek The FDB team, which includes more than 70 pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, is equipping their colleagues in thousands of healthcare settings with trusted drug knowledge to help them assess medication risk and the effectiveness of medications for each patient. We provide clinical guidance and decision support tools to help pharmacy staff, providers and other clinicians make more precise medication decisions.   #NationalPharmacyWeek #PharmacyWeek #MedKnowledge #Pharmacists American Pharmacists Association (AphA)

HLTH USA 2024 has kicked off in Las Vegas, and executive leaders shared their thoughts on big topics likely to dominate, including FDB’s Lathe Bigler, Vice President, Clinical Network Services & General Manager, FDB Vela.   “Generative AI has taken health IT by storm; however, with the continued lack of LLM transparency and the inaccuracy of outputs, the bloom is off the rose. I am looking forward to hearing more about practical implementations that can be trusted by patients and clinicians.”   Ron Southwick has the story via Chief Healthcare Executive: https://bit.ly/3C0ZHk3 | #HLTHUSA #HLTH2024 #AIinHealthcare #ClinicalWorkflows

Get a glimpse into the key themes and predictions shaping this year’s HLTH USA. HIT Consultant Media reached out to digital health executives for their expert perspectives, including FDB’s Steven Miller, MD, MBE, clinical solutions architect.   “Clinical decision support will be a hot topic at HLTH. There are several simultaneous advances that are rapidly revolutionizing the application of CDS in healthcare. The advent of FHIR and CDS Hooks, quickened by the 21st Century Cures Act regulations, are making it possible to achieve the dream of patient-centered, scalable CDS that can be built once and then implemented across multiple sites.”   Read more insights: https://bit.ly/489zOKV | #HLTHUSA #HLTH2024 #FHIR #ClinicalDecisionSupport 

🎙️ With #HLTH2024 starting today, we’re excited to share this lively conversation! Lathe Bigler, GM of FDB Vela, a cloud-native electronic prescribing network that enables the seamless flow of critical medication prescription information, sat down with Grace Vinton for this segment of #HITeaWithGrace to discuss healthcare redundancy and security.   “Redundancy and security are key priorities for healthcare leaders this year. Innovation is driving new solutions to strengthen these critical areas to enhance physician experience, patient care, and outcomes. For healthcare innovation professionals, redundancy and security are crucial to ensuring system reliability, protecting patient data, and enabling seamless technological advancements.”   Tune it now to learn more: https://bit.ly/4f7xsyI | #Redundancy #Interoperability #ClinicalDecisionSupport #AIinHealthcare

🎙️ With #HLTH2024 just around the corner, we’re excited to highlight this insightful conversation! Dr. Steven Miller, Clinical Solutions Architect at FDB, sat down with Grace Vinton for this segment of #HITeaWithGrace to discuss addressing healthcare spending waste and ways to drive efficiency.   “Innovation in healthcare is being propelled by innovations in advancements like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) and clinical decision support (CDS) hooks, which streamline data access and enhance interoperability. The integration of AI plays a vital role in extracting meaningful information from complex healthcare data, enabling providers to make informed decisions quickly. Together, these technologies are transforming how clinicians deliver care, ultimately improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency.”   Watch it now for more insights: https://bit.ly/487wgch | #FHIR #Interoperability #ClinicalDecisionSupport #AIinHealthcare

October is Health Literacy Month, a time to emphasize the importance of empowering patients to understand and act on trusted health information. At FDB, we fully align with the Healthy People 2030 initiative, which defines health literacy in two key ways:   1️⃣ Personal Health Literacy: An individual's ability to find, understand, and use health information for informed decision-making. 2️⃣ Organizational Health Literacy: The role of healthcare organizations in enabling equitable access to understandable health information for patients.   Our Meducation® solution supports these definitions by simplifying complex medication instructions and making them accessible across over 30 languages. By enhancing both personal and organizational health literacy, we can improve patient outcomes, reduce readmissions, and empower communities to make healthier choices.   Read the full blog from Dr. Charles Lee, Senior Director of Clinical Knowledge and Senior Advisor for Health Literacy and Language Barriers at FDB, to learn more: https://bit.ly/3NvCnha | #HealthLiteracyMonth #HealthLiteracy #PtSafety #MedSafety #Meducation #HealthyPeople2030