{"id":35139,"date":"2020-12-16T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=35139"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:52:30","slug":"systems-that-use-ai-to-match-medications-with-patients-can-reduce-prescription-costs-fiu-business-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2020\/12\/systems-that-use-ai-to-match-medications-with-patients-can-reduce-prescription-costs-fiu-business-study-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems that use AI to match medications with patients can reduce prescription costs, FIU Business study reveals."},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the result of rising medication costs, patients often stop following medical treatment plans and fail to get better. Without detailed information, medical practitioners can do little to help.<\/p>\n

A recommender system, an emerging tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to identify a medication that matches healthcare goals with the patient\u2019s budget, could help solve the issue on both fronts, according to new research from FIU Business.<\/p>\n

Recommender systems are used extensively in e-commerce to give consumers suggestions for products similar to those they\u2019ve bought in the past. The study found a general tendency among medical practitioners to reduce healthcare costs by prescribing lower-cost medications with similar outcomes to their patients when price information was provided by a recommender system.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe idea is to give recommendations and price information to the providers at the time the prescription is issued so they pick what\u2019s best for their patient,\u201d said\u00a0Lina Bouayad<\/a>, associate professor of information systems and business analytics at FIU Business and one of the researchers. \u201cThis is relevant because if the patient can\u2019t afford the medicine, they won\u2019t take it and won\u2019t get well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Published in the December 2020 issue of\u00a0Management Information Systems Quarterly<\/i><\/a>, the research consisted of two controlled experiments and one interview-based survey. A total of 160 practicing physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants participated in the study.<\/p>\n

In the experiments, medical practitioners were presented with six cases of fictional patients that included patient information and associated medication lists. As the doctors prescribed medications, the recommender system showed in real time alternative medications and their corresponding prices.<\/p>\n

Researchers analyzed the impact of various cost-aware recommender systems on prescription-choice behavior, including how time constraints on practitioners affects the use of such cost-aware systems and the effect of practitioner experience on the evaluation and adoption of cost-aware recommendations in clinical settings.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhysician assistants and nurse practitioners always switched to the lower-cost option. Their behavior, however, changed under high time pressure,\u201d Bouayad said. \u201cBy contrast, physicians, with more experience dealing with time pressure, were not impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bouayad conducted the research with professors Balaji Padmanabhan of the University of South Florida and Kaushal Chari of the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the result of rising medication costs, patients often stop following medical treatment plans and fail to get better. Without detailed information, medical practitioners can do little to help. A recommender system, an emerging tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to identify a medication that matches healthcare goals with the patient\u2019s budget, could help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":35143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3959,4139,2229],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35147,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35139\/revisions\/35147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}