Promoting appropriate medication use by leveraging medical big data.

According to World Health Organization statistics, inappropriate medication has become an important factor affecting the safety of rational medication. In the gray area of medical insurance supervision, such as designated drugstores and medical institutions, there are lots of inappropriate medication phenomena regarding "big prescription for minor ailments." A traditional clinical decision support system is mostly based on established rules to regulate inappropriate prescriptions, which are not suitable for clinical environments and require intelligent review. In this study, we model the complex relationships between patients, diseases, and drugs based on medical big data to promote appropriate medication use. More specifically, we first construct the medication knowledge graph based on the historical prescription big data of tertiary hospitals and medical text data. Second, based on the medication knowledge graph, we employ a Gaussian mixture model to group patient population representation as physiological features. For diagnostic features, we employ pre-training word vector Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers to enhance the semantic representation between diagnoses. In addition, to reduce adverse drug interactions caused by drug combinations, we employ a graph convolution network to transform drug interaction information into drug interaction features. Finally, we employ the sequence generation model to learn the complex relationships between patients, diseases, and drugs and provide an appropriate medication evaluation for doctor prescriptions in small hospitals from two aspects: drug list and medication course of treatment. In this study, we utilize the MIMIC III dataset alongside data from a tertiary hospital in Fujian Province to validate our model. The results show that our method is more effective than other baseline methods in the accuracy of the medication regimen prediction of rational medication. In addition, it achieved high accuracy in the appropriate medication detection of prescription in small hospitals.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
(© 2024 Hong, Huang, Cai, Lin, Shao, Chen, Zhao and Yang.)