Designing human-centered AI to prevent medication dispensing errors: focus group study with pharmacists.

Yifan Zheng; Brigid Rowell; Qiyuan Chen; Jin Yong Kim; Raed Al Kontar; X Jessie Yang; Corey A Lester

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Designing human-centered AI to prevent medication dispensing errors: focus group study with pharmacists.

March 20, 2024

Zheng Y, Rowell B, Chen Q, et al. JMIR Form Res. 2023;7:e51921.

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Pharmacists play an essential role in ensuring the correct medications are ordered and dispensed. Based on feedback from focus groups conducted with pharmacists, this article describes the development of a human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) prototype to improve medication dispensing and verification.

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