AI pharmacy study at Brigham and Womens NBC Boston [Video]

Many of us need to take medication everyday, and for some people, it’s a lengthy daily regimen of prescriptions to manage our health.

It can be an overwhelming workload, though, for doctors and pharmacists to track all of their patients’ prescriptions, according to Dr. Lisa Rotenstein. She is a primary care provider, who previously worked at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, but is now based in California.

“These are people who are in our daily lives, many of the people who we interact with on a day to day basis likely have more chronic conditions than we realize and are on many medications,” Dr. Rotenstein said.

She’s leading a study at Brigham that is testing how artificial intelligence can help providers to track patients’ medication.

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