MedAware Uses AI to Tackle Medical Errors and Opioid Epidemic

Artificial intelligence has been used in a wide variety of devices and services in healthcare. MedAware is using AI and machine learning to help tackle medication errors and abuse of opioids. The Raanana, Israel-based company will collaborate with Allscripts Healthcare Solutions to tackle the problem. “A systematic problem calls for a systemic solution,” Gidi Stein, MedAware’s co-founder and CEO, told MD+DI. “We came in trying to tackle this problem using machine learning and AI on large scale electronic medical records.” Under this collaboration, Allscripts will implement MedAware’s machine learning-enabled decision support and patient safety solutions to the dbMotion, a healthcare information exchange platform, to provide better patient care. In order to provide actionable insights at the point of care and after the script was already filled, MedAware monitors patients’ clinical records to detect medication-related risks, evolving adverse drug events (ADEs), and to identify patient-specific risk of opioid dependency. As a result, in live clinical settings, providers mostly choose to revise their prescriptions when they are notified of such risks from MedAware. MedAware said this level of success is achieved by using its medication monitoring technology that leverages machine-learning algorithms and outlier detection mechanisms to identify adverse drug events and flag potentially life-threatening prescriptions that are in conflict with the profile of the patien...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Software Source Type: news