Large language models for preventing medication direction errors in online pharmacies.
Large language models (LLMs) are artificial intelligence (AI) based tools which are increasingly used in healthcare to improve clinical decision-making and patient safety. This article describes the MEDIC (medication direction copilot) system, which uses LMMs to reduce prescribing errors by improving medication direction-related communication. The researchers tested MEDIC within an existing pharmacy workflow and found that the tool led to a 3% reduction in direction-related near miss events.