Electronic Medication Prescribing Support System for Diagnosing Tropical Diseases

TL;DR

This paper introduces an electronic prescribing system designed for diagnosing tropical diseases, demonstrating improved efficiency and reduced errors compared to traditional handwritten prescriptions, with potential to enhance patient outcomes in tropical regions.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel e-prescription system tailored for tropical diseases, showing its effectiveness through expert testing and highlighting its advantages over conventional methods.

Findings

System is more efficient than handwritten prescriptions

Reduces common prescribing errors

Potential to improve patient health outcomes

Abstract

This paper presents the development of an e-prescription system for diagnosing tropical diseases.Results after testing the developed system by medical experts indicated that the e-prescription systems is more efficient and less susceptible to common errors associated with the conventional handwritten medical prescription and can also go a long way to help to improve patients health outcome in the health industry especially in the tropics.