Checking in on FDB Vela, the nation’s second e-prescribing network

First Databank (FDB), which is owned by Hearst Health, announced at HIMSS22 in March the launch of the country’s second e-prescribing network, FDB Vela.

For more than 15 years, the country has been served by only one e-prescribing network, Surescripts (which this week

Frank Harvey as its new chief executive following the retirement of CEO Tom Skelton). 

FDB contends that having only one e-prescribing network nationwide for an…