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Drug interactions are basically the perfect type of thing to automate. It's just a lookup. For usage questions, how many parameters does that vary on? Amount,
by creddit 7y ago
Drug interactions are basically the perfect type of thing to automate. It's just a lookup.
For usage questions, how many parameters does that vary on? Amount, frequency symptomm? Seems very easy to automate as well.
The only thing not able to be automated is law abidance. This would require changing of the law.
- Double_a_92 7y ago> For usage questions, how many parameters does that vary on? Amount, frequency symptomm? Seems very easy to automate as well. The pharmacist couldn't even know exactly. That is probably mostly to check for order of magnitudes errors (missed commas, additional 0s).
- bluGill 7y agoDrug interactions are not a lookup. Some people have problems some do not. We don't even have interaction data on all possible combinations of two different drugs, much less all the 6+ different drugs that some people are taking. There is a lot of "Educated guesswork". For someone only taking one drug for a couple weeks and the a year latter a different drug for a few weeks it is easy.
- anthonypasq 7y agoOk? So its a data problem, not a technical problem. Just get the data from pharmacy textbook into a computer. Its not that hard.
- creddit 7y agoSeems like there would be the possibility of WFH pharmacists whose job is to do the educated guesswork on any newly observed combo. Log it into the system after some validation and voila we have timeless knowledge for all who come later, automated at low costs.