Taiwan Province team develops drug identification App to reduce the risk of "taking the wrong medicine"

Dr. Chen Yuqun developed a "mobile phone drug image recognition system", hoping to reduce the risk of people taking the wrong drugs.

"Dr. Chen, I seem to have made a mistake ..." Chen Yuqun, an attending physician in the Department of Family Medicine of Taipei Veterans General Hospital and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine of Yangming University, spent three years developing a "mobile phone drug image recognition system"-Ai Jia pharmacist App and drug shooting device. When testing the multilingual drug information query function of the App, he invited a foreign nurse to help with the test. Unexpectedly, foreign nurses are full of anxiety when they look at the query results.

This foreign nurse mainly takes care of an 80-year-old grandmother. After being questioned by Dr. Chen Yuqun, the foreign nurse admitted that she had misunderstood the word "stomach medicine" in Chinese in the past and thought that the medicine for treating gastric ulcer was "stomach medicine". After consulting the Ai Jia pharmacist's App, she found that what grandma needs is medicine to improve indigestion and flatulence, which is what grandma called "stomach medicine". Fortunately, after seven or eight years.

What medicine is this? There are three major problems with the risk of taking the wrong medicine.

Dr. Chen Yuqun has been engaged in community home care for the aged for many years and has treated many elderly patients. He observed that there are three major problems in patients' medication in Taiwan Province Province: First, patients often unpack different drugs, put them in the same medicine box, and even discard the packages for convenience. Later, they may even say, "What medicine is this?" How to eat? "I don't know.

Secondly, there are more than 8000 kinds of medical insurance drugs/kloc-0 in Taiwan Province province. Some patients are used to hoarding drugs. Drugs can come from medical institutions, pharmacies or even next-door neighbors. After a long time, patients often forget the source and main function of these drugs.

Third, although patients and their families know what drugs they are, the foreign nurses they care for don't know how to use them correctly because they don't know Chinese. Like the foreign nurses mentioned above, the situation is similar.

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▲ Some elders are used to putting all the medicines together. It is easy to take the wrong medicine when taking medicine, and the risk of using the wrong medicine is greatly increased.

Drug identification system reduces the risk of wrong medication.

Dr. Chen Yuqun has been thinking hard about the problems faced by patients with medication. When the mobile phone drug image recognition system for pharmacists in Ai Jia was successfully developed, the problem was solved. Dr. Chen Yuqun said that this system has three characteristics: easy scanning, random search and multilingual drug use information.

Take "Easy Scan" as an example. If people have a medicine box, they can directly scan the bar code of the medicine box. If they don't have a medicine box, they can directly scan pills and capsules, which can also easily find information.

In the aspect of "random search", at present, the App can search for 18025 kinds of health care drugs in Taiwan Province province, including Chinese and English drug names, ingredients, health care codes, drug characteristics and so on. When people make a query, the system will compare the drug name with the drug appearance wisdom, and even if the drug name is misspelled, homophones or similar words, the correct information can be found.

Multilingual medication information can also be convenient for foreign nurses to use.

As for "multilingual drug information", including English, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Malay and other languages, it can help foreign nurses understand drugs, better understand these drugs, serve their elders to use drugs, and avoid the dilemma of feeding the wrong drugs.

In the process of developing a drug shooting device, Dr. Chen Yuqun's team also racked their brains to overcome the possible problems such as color difference, focusing and deformation in macro photography of mobile phones. After some efforts, the drug shooting device can finally play a real role and is more convenient to use. At present, the system has obtained a new patent in Taiwan Province Province.

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▲ As long as the mobile phone downloads the APP, it is easy to scan and view it at will, and there are multilingual medication information to help foreign nurses understand the medication information.

Medication according to the doctor's advice is safe and secure.

Dr. Chen Yuqun also reminded people to follow the doctor's advice when taking medicine. The doctor prescribed the medicine for 7 days, and the patient had to take it in full accordance with the doctor's advice. Do not hoard drugs or use drugs from unknown sources. If you are in doubt about medication, you should consult pharmacists and doctors as soon as possible to reduce the risk of medication errors and adverse drug reactions.

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