University College Dublin (UCD) is one of Europe’s leading research-intensive universities, where a comprehensive suite of strong disciplines forms the foundation of high-quality interdisciplinary research, scholarship and innovation. UCD is the national leader in research funding, attracting quality investment that has helped the university to establish a reputation as a world-class destination for leading researchers.
Fass is Sweden’s most used channel for information on medicinal products. Through Fass, patients, healthcare professionals, pharmacy staff, pet owners and animal care staff always have access to up-to-date and quality-assured information about medicines around the clock. Fass has over 4 million visits per month and is one of Sweden’s strongest brands.
UCD will be active in disseminating KPIs developed in Task 1.4, and will be active in WP4, and WP6 as the lead for the work in one of the testing scenarios on young people with complex needs.
Our contribution to the project
Prof Maria Brenner, Professor of Children’s Nursing is experienced in leading large multidisciplinary teams. This includes a current 5-year project funded by the European Research Council to explore the initiation of technology dependence in children with complex care needs (TechChild). She previously led the development of the first standards of care for children with complex care needs in Europe as part of the Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project, funded by the EU Commission Horizon 2020.
Fass provides the public, healthcare professionals, pharmacies, pet owners, and animal care professionals quality-assured medicine information. Fass offers information about packaging and price, information on medicine management as well as environmental information. One of the most used services is stock inventory status, which shows which pharmacy an item is available at. Fass provides important information when a medicine is temporarily out of stock and unavailable from the manufacturer. Fass also displays information about ongoing shortages reported to the Swedish Medical Products Agency.
Fass can be viewed on computers, tablets and smartphones. The apps: Fass Vård for healthcare professionals and pharmacists, Fass Allmänhet for the general public, and Fass Djur for animal care professionals and pet owners are available for both iPhone and Android. In addition, information from Fass can be integrated directly into other systems via the Fass API.
Fass is participating in a cross-border cooperation of the Nordic pharmaceutical product compendia to provide the testing scenarios of Gravitate-Health with updated, quality controlled, electronic package leaflets (ePIL) in the Nordic languages.
Our contribution to the project
Fass has long-term experience working with the validation, structure, and digitalization of medicinal information. With our experienced staff we contribute to the project through the knowledge from our pharmacists, digitalization specialists, business specialists, product owners and software developers who possess deep insights into digitalizing healthcare information.
Fass has been providing reliable drug information since 1966 and has over 4 million visits a month…
