FDB MEDKNOWLEDGE Descriptive and Pricing Information from First Databank, Inc.

The DLA Troop Support Medical Directorate has a requirement to renew its existing data subscription license agreement for FDB MEDKNOWLEDGE Descriptive and Pricing Information from First Databank, Inc. This license is required to provide drug databases that include descriptive drug information and classification in support of pharmacy procurement and analysis, which promises to lower healthcare costs and improve patient care. The database is required to provide critical classification data for DLA Troop Support on a weekly basis to enable cross references of products or equivalent products such as therapeutically equivalent products, pharmaceutically equivalent products, etc. FDB product information is also required in numerous DLA Troop Support Medical system applications as well as in downstream service customer systems and catalogs. The data subscription license agreement must cover the government’s 170 DODAACs that receive Medical Master Catalog (MMC) data that includes the FDB data feed