An Enhanced Data Model for a Pharmacy Expert System Within a Telemedicine Infrastructure
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The BJC Health System utilizes two custom automated expert systems for screening drug dosing and drug interactions: DoseChecker and PharmADE. Until recently, these expert systems used the National Drug Code (NDC) as their primary key to associate drug orders with the expert system rule base. Although this data model was useful, NDCs have several shortcomings associated with their use in a clinical expert system, namely,
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