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FreePharma® is a software plug-in that analyzes drug prescription information expressed
in free natural language (written or spoken) and structures it automatically for subsequent
integration in host applications.
FreePharma® can derive the dose, route, frequency etc.
from natural language descriptions and common language descriptions.
Each year medication errors cause hundreds of thousands of patient deaths annually
(140,000 deaths per year in the US alone) and cost billions of dollars.
Software is available with drug-drug interactions, drug-allergy interactions...
but all of these databases / applications need structured input. Prescriptions however are
made in human language. Hence, most applications use data entry forms combined with pick
lists and point and click interfaces to obtain structured data input from the very beginning.
This is time-consuming and quite often very impractical and resisted by many doctors.
The Solution
FreePharma® will automatically capture and structure prescription information from a variety
of sources and link this information to drug databases and systems such as EPR, EMR, HIS...
This will prevent medication errors and make drug information available for analysis, internal
communication and research purposes.
FreePharma® is a software plug-in that analyzes drug prescription information expressed in
free natural language (written or spoken), and that structures it automatically for subsequent
integration in host applications. The
FreePharma® software component generates a structured
XML representation out of drug therapy information expressed in natural language, and this
XML-representation can then be used to store the information in the respective tables of the
host application.
Application areas include Data Entry, including Physician Order Entry (POE) and entry from
office notes or discharge summaries, and retrospective analysis for error reduction and cost control.
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