Study on Design and Application of Hospital Rational Drug Use Monitoring System Based on Intelligence Inference Engine

OBJECTIVE To design and apply hospital rational drug use monitoring system based on intelligence inference engine to promote clinically rational drug use. METHODS Adopting the package insert and clinical medication guidelines as source of knowledge and using knowledge base and intelligence inference technology, hospital rational drug use monitoring system was built. RESULTS The system could run online on both the doctor’s and the pharmacist’s workstation. The irrational drug use status could be evaluated retrospectively for further management. 143 orthopedic outpatient prescriptions in one day sampled randomly were detected online using the system and 16 warnings appeared, which were identified right by manual confirmation. CONCLUSION The system was practical and better than those hospital rational drug use monitoring systems based on the database technology in intelligence, update, individuation, running efficiency, etc. It could also meet the requirements of rational drug use supervision.