Developed by a Thai startup, PharmaSafe mobile application enhances the public health system of Thailand in coping with Covid-19 pandemic, assist in protecting healthcare professionals from contagious diseases and support those non-communicable diseases (NCDs) patients to take care of themselves at home.
Having supported by National Innovation Agency (Public Organization) or NIA, the development of PharmaSafe mobile application by Thai startup, Whying Company Limited helps improve efficiency of the public health system of Thailand by digital technology and reduces the numbers of people who get sick in the hospitals.
Chronic and NCDs pose a major threat to public health, those include heart attacks and stroke, diabetes, cancers and asthma, patients with these diseases depend on the drug for their life and they thus need to be controlled by the doctors.
Whying Company Limited CEO Juk Kosalyawat, the developer of PharmaSafe mobile application said that PharmaSafe has become a solution for the future medical in the Covid-19 pandemic because it helps protecting the lives of doctors and healthcare workers against Covid-19, reducing the numbers of people who get sick in the hospitals.
Based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, PharmaSafe will record patient’s drug and usage history, drug schedule and alarm system, keeping track of drug usage and scheduling the time to see the doctor. It increases safety of drug dispensing in hospitals by providing a full version of drug information to every outpatient. The drug usage alarm system helps patients to take medicine with the right dose and on time. With the mobile application, patients have drug usage records with them, so it increases the safety of medical services.
As the President of Thai Healthtech Association, Juk explained that PharmaSafe is a use of digital technology to enhance efficiency and safety of drug dispensing in hospitals providing a full version of drug information to every outpatient. The application features drug usage alarm system helping patients to take medicine with the right dose and on time.
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the system served some 8,500 patients in six hospitals including Rajavithi Hospital, National Cancer Institute, Krabi Hospital, Samut Prakan Hospital, Bangkok Hospital, and it recently expanded to the field hospital in Nakhon Rachasima to serve the NCDs patients who have to do 14-day self-quarantine.
The patients of the project are required to download the mobile application and then the hospital will dispense the drug for six months in advance, patients use the drug based on the instruction sent by PharmaSafe application hich monitored by the doctors via AI www.pharmasafe.com website.
PharmaSafe keeps the health record and behavior of patients who are at home and the database is significant critical for the public health and telemedicine which will lead to the development of patient behavior and healthcare services in the future based on the use of digital technology.
