Harvard Research Shows New Technology Can Save Thousands of Lives a Year by Reducing Prescription Errors - Seite 3

A full abstract of the study was first published in JAMIA and available 19 January 2017, in full. 

About MedAware  

MedAware is an algorithm-rich software company developing machine learning enabled decision support solutions, is the developer of the MedAware Rx Alert solution, dedicated to eradicating prescription errors. MedAware harnesses patterns from thousands of physicians treating millions of patients to identify and alert on prescription errors in real-time.

The company's self-learning, self-adaptive system has proven to dramatically reduce healthcare costs while improving patient safety, outcomes, and experience. MedAware's flagship product is the first in a suite of decision support solutions that transform real physician practice data into actionable clinical knowledge.

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MedAware, Ltd. MedAware was not involved in any of the coding scheme development, chart review, data analysis, data interpretation, or manuscript preparation for the Harvard Study.

About the technology 

Analyzing historical electronic medical records, the system automatically generates, for each medication, a computational model that captures the population that is likely to be prescribed the medication and the clinical environment in which it is likely to be prescribed.

This model can then be used to identify prescriptions that are significant statistical outliers given patients' clinical situations, i.e., medications that are rarely or never prescribed to patients in similar situations, such as birth control pills to a baby boy. Such prescriptions are flagged by the system as potential medication errors.

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