Description
Each year in the U.S. 7,000–9,000 people die due to a medication error of some kind.
Summary
- A startup has developed a way to use AI to detect when doctors may be prescribing the wrong drug — or overprescribing opioids.
- In much the same way that financial institutions use automated systems to catch outlier transactions that may signal fraud, MedAware's platform analyzes the prescription patterns of thousands of physicians to flag when a medication may be in conflict with the profile of the doctor, the patient or the medical institution.
- And you would have thought there was some kind of spellchecker to prevent this from happening."
- Stein is particularly worried that the rapid adoption of telemedicine during the pandemic could open the door to more medication errors, as online doctors deal with patients they may know little about. "