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Systems that use AI to match medications with patients can reduce prescription costs, FIU Business study reveals
December 17, 2020 at 3:00pm
As a result of rising medication costs, patients often stop following medical treatment plans and fail to get better. Without detailed information, medical practitioners can do little to help. A recommender system, an emerging tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to identify a medication that matches health care goals with the patient’s budget, could help solve the issue on both fronts, according to new research from FIU Business. Recommender systems are used extensively in e-commerce to give consumers suggestions for products similar to those they’ve bought in the past. The study found a general tendency among medical practitioners to reduce healthcare costs by prescribing lower-cost medications with similar outcomes to their patients when price information wa
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