The Pharmacy Enterprise Customization System (PECS) is a JEE application used to research, review, report, and manage customized drug information from First Databank (FDB) used in the enhanced order checking. Through a web-based GUI, it allows users to request custom changes to Drug-Drug Interaction, Drug Pairs, Dose Range, Duplicate Therapy, and Drug-Drug Interaction Professional Monograph, controlling access through a role based system. The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used to disseminate updates from a national database to all local/regional instances of FDB standard and custom tables.

PECS provides VA Pharmacists the ability to receive and store descriptive and clinical drug information from a COTS product and customize that data as needed per VA business procedures and disperse that customized data across the VA Medical Center. PECS utilizes First Databank’s National Drug Data File as COTS drug information.