Pharmacy

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"By relying on the AI technology to convert information into discrete data elements in our Epic EHR, we have significantly reduced the amount of manual entry required by our staff," an inpatient pharmacy operations supervisor reports.

Emmanuel Bilbault, cofounder and CEO of POSOS, says the company's AI-powered clinical support platform offers alternate drugs to prescribe to avoid interaction risk, rather than simply alert doctors of possible medication errors.  

Continuous Precision Medicine's data helps providers make sure the appropriate amount of pain medication is administered to patients for pain management. Steven Walther, the company's CEO, explains more.  

One Boston hospital is using DrFirst's automated medication management product to streamline its prescription processes, says Dr. Colin Banas, the company's CMO. It also reduced medication safety events by 25% in six months.  

A 50% reduction in nurse-created discrepancies at medication cabinets and a 20% decrease in the time nurses spend dispensing meds have been two big wins. A 30% increase in storage capacity on the floors is another.

Dr. Nele Jessel, athenahealth's CMO and Dr. Andrew Mellin, Surescripts' VP and CMIO, said that real-time prescription benefit data has helped patients avoid sticker shock, save money and pick up 8% more scripts across athena's prescribers.  

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Tx-LLM was fine-tuned from Google's Med-PaLM 2 and created to analyze a variety of chemical or biological entities to assist with the drug-discovery pipeline.  

Using the FHIR standard can help organizations like the VA connect rapidly to drug data, which paves the way for real-time surveillance that improves patient safety and identifies adverse events tied to medication.