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How Israeli Innovation Using Artificial Intelligence Can Save Lives

(Jerusalem Post) Maayan Hoffman - Israel's MedAware utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to significantly reduce medication errors. The technology allows healthcare providers, payers and pharmacy chains eliminate a wide range of prescription errors and provide better risk management. MedAware CEO and co-founder Dr. Gidi Stein said medication errors account for a $21 billion drain on the American healthcare system alone, not including the cost of legal action taken when medication errors occur. Each year in the U.S. there are two million adverse drug events that cause 100,000 deaths. In a two-year MedAware trial at Sheba Medical Center, most prevented errors occurred when a previously safe medication became dangerous to a patient, due to a change in his condition. MedAware uses methods similar to those used in the finance sector to stop fraud. The bank tracks an individual's personal spending patterns and is alerted when an unordinary transaction is made. Stein said, "Prescription patterns of thousands of physicians treating millions of patients are used to determine the 'normal' treatment spectrum. A prescription largely deviating from this spectrum is likely to be erroneous."
2018-11-30 00:00:00
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