4 March 2015 - - US-based clinical drug knowledge provider First Databank has entered into an agreement with Polyglot Systems to be the primary distributor of Polyglot's proprietary Meducation simplified patient medication instructions to the hospital, ambulatory and pharmacy markets in the US and Canada, the company said on Wednesday. Meducation is a cloud-based solution, accessible to healthcare providers within their clinical workflow via their EMR system or as a standalone solution, which delivers medication instructions for individuals considered to be "high risk" due to low health literacy, impaired vision and language barriers. It enables providers to dynamically create fully personalized medication patient instructions, in any of 21 languages -- written at a 5th to 8th grade reading level with large font sizes, pictograms and videos -- to make understanding how to take medications intuitive and simple. Meducation will complement the company's existing portfolio of consumer and professional medication education monographs offered through FDB MedKnowledge. Key provisions in the US Affordable Care Act require hospitals to demonstrate high patient satisfaction as measured by HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) scores, or forfeit a certain percentage of their Medicare reimbursement. John Dempsey Hospital, part of the University of Connecticut Health Center, saw vast improvement in their HCAHPS scores after adopting Meducation. Additionally, a health literacy study on medication adherence conducted in 2014 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Durham, NC, concluded that Meducation positively affected medication adherence and clinical outcomes for high-risk patients with cardiovascular disease. Polyglot Systems' Meducation software was developed under a grant from the National Institutes of Health to bridge communication barriers between healthcare providers and patients. Improving patient understanding and medication adherence results in reduced healthcare costs and increased patient satisfaction. FDB (First Databank), part of the Hearst Health network, is the provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise medication-related decisions.