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Republic Polytechnic
Health and Wellness

Application to Assist Medication Review for Healthcare Professionals

A Clinical Decision Support System application to assist medication review for healthcare professionals, providing them with sound guideline-based recommendations when they are managing medications for older patients.

Doctors, pharmacists, and nurses would be able to launch this team-care deprescribing application anywhere in their work, improving efficiency and clinical care.

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Technology overview

A Clinical Decision Support System application to assist medication review for healthcare professionals, providing them with sound guideline-based recommendations when they are managing medications for older patients. Doctors, pharmacists, and nurses would be able to launch this team-care deprescribing application anywhere in their work, improving efficiency and clinical care.

Technology features

Features:

  • Medications to avoid (with explanation)

  • Medications to be used with caution (with explanation)

  • Drug interactions

  • Other considerations and advice

  • Separate patient management system add-on

  • Gen-AI chatbot extension capability

System capabilities:

  • Cross-platform System (available as a web app, and also on both Android and iOS platforms)

  • Two-factor authentication

  • API capability

Advantages:

  • In our pilot testing, the application achieved double the accuracy compared to conventional manual lookup, while also significantly reducing decision-making time

  • This app also reduces carbon footprints in healthcare settings and promotes sustainable healthcare practices by making guidelines easier to apply

Potential applications

  • For healthcare institutions, pharmacies, and clinics: The system can be seamlessly integrated with your existing patient management platform via API calls. If you don’t currently have a system in place, we also provide a compatible patient management solution.

  • For software solution or medical information providers: The technology can be incorporated into your existing medical product suite to enhance and complement your offerings.

  • Others: The application can be further developed to support other clinical guidelines or adapted for use in other healthcare settings.

Benefits

This is one of the first and most comprehensive deprescribing application designed to help prevent the prescribing of inappropriate medications for older patients. As a web app, and also on both Android and iOS platforms, our solution offers significantly more flexibility than many other solutions. This application incorporates the latest medical guidelines, which have been shown in studies to improve patient outcomes. This application would empower healthcare professionals, such as doctors, pharmacists, and nurses, to make better-informed decisions and deliver safer, more effective care to their patients.

Commercialisation

This technology is available for licensing and technology transfer.

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