New tool may offer prescription ‘safety net’ and reduce the 237m medication errors made each year in England
Drugs are a cornerstone of medicine, but sometimes doctors make mistakes when prescribing them and patients don’t take them properly.
A new AI tool developed at Oxford University aims to tackle both those problems. DrugGPT offers a safety net for clinicians when they prescribe medicines and gives them information that may help their patients better understand why and how to take them.
More Stories
Microsoft unveils chip it says could bring quantum computing within years
If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment
Virologist Wendy Barclay: ‘Wild avian viruses are mixing up their genetics all the time. It’s like viral sex on steroids’