Design and Implementation of Cloud Service and APP for Drug-Drug Interaction

Adverse Drug Reaction, also known as ADR, is a serious problem that should be avoid when using drugs. ADR might worsen the patient condition or to the extent where patients need to be hospitalized. This results in increasing medical expenses. One of the major reasons causing ADR is drug interaction. Patients with multiple chronic diseases under multiple treatments are the potential group of people at risk to develop drug-drug interactions. In addition, it is extremely difficult for doctors to prescribe medications when they cannot get access to the information of all the drugs and possible drug interactions when patients are under cross-disciplinary or even cross-hospital treatments. Hence, how to decrease the incidence rate of ADR is an important issue. In this study, we have established a cloud database of drug-drug interactions including common danger information and helpful suggestions. On the front page of our cloud database, users can simply enter the key words such as the drug generic name or its drug international classification code at the search box to access the information they need. Doctors and pharmacists can also use this database enquiry system on a daily basis to find out whether if their patients have any drug interactions problems. This can ultimately improve the overall drug safety for patients. Furthermore, our system comes with a mobile application (APP) version letting users to access our database instantly and conveniently.