Introducing RxPERT — DocsApp’s AI solution to minimize Medical Errors
DocsApp
DocsApp is India’s no 1 online healthcare platform providing consultations from expert doctors across India.
What we do
We are focused on providing best quality consultations while maintaining the quickest turn around from the doctor. We provide specialist doctor consultation for more than 2,000 patients a day, which is higher than any other offline hospital. Our main outstanding feature is that user doesn’t need to make any appointments for consultations. One can consult a doctor at any time, be it a holiday or late night, within 30 minutes
To ensure this at scale, we implemented computerized prescription monitoring system called RxPERT which optimizes prescription quality
Medication Errors in hospitals
Medication errors are common in general practice and in hospitals. Both errors in the act of writing (prescription errors) and prescribing faults due to erroneous medical decisions can result in harm to patients.
Prevention of medication errors has been recognized as a priority in health care systems worldwide.
Read more about Medication errors from this research article
There are many sources of medication errors like
- Irrational, inappropriate, and ineffective prescribing
- Controlled or abuse potential drugs prescription for prolonged periods
- Prescription of medications having harmful drug interactions
- Over-prescribing and under-prescribing
What RxPERT does
DocsApps RxPERT solves the above mentioned medication errors commonly seen in hospitals
It has optimized algorithms build using latest standard guidelines. It is designed to effectively identify the possible prescription errors in general practice, hospitals and alert the doctor to review it while writing prescription to the patient.
Being aware that error is possible, RxPERT takes steps to minimize the risks by monitoring and identifying errors, reporting and assisting doctor while prescribing to provide quality prescription.
Currently DocsApp reaches out to over over 2.5 million people and providing quality consultation service with more than 2,500 handpicked doctors and inbuilt clinical AI products like CLARA and RxPERT
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