The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine lies in its ability to enhance clinicians' capacity to analyse medical images, thereby improving diagnostic precision and accuracy and thus enhancing current tests. However, the integration of AI within health care is fraught with difficulties. Heterogeneity among health care system applications, reliance on proprietary closed-source software, and rising cybersecurity threats pose significant challenges.
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July 2021
Background: Polypharmacy is common among older adults and it represents a public health concern, due to the negative health impacts potentially associated with the use of several medications. However, the large number of medication combinations and sequences of use makes it complicated for traditional statistical methods to predict which therapy is genuinely associated with health outcomes. The project aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the quality of polypharmacy among older adults with chronic diseases in the province of Québec, Canada.
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