My Family Pharmacy

Title of Funded Project: My Family Pharmacy Mobile App
Number: A2019Ac11-940
Date of Agreement: 06/01/2019
Principal Investigator: Professor Mohammad H. Nadimi-Shahraki
Co-principal Investigator: Hoda Zamani 

Importance: Medicine consumption strains the economy, as it takes up a big part of health and GDP spending. In 2022, the OECD average health-to-GDP ratio was 9.2%. The UK's ratio was 10.3% and Iran's was 6.5%, indicating that the UK spent more on health relative to its economic output than Iran. By 2027, global medicine spending will reach $1.9 trillion, up from $1.48 trillion in 2022, driven by factors such as population growth, aging, disease burden, and innovation. The USA will spend 40% of that, the UK 3.5%, and Iran 0.4%, reflecting the differences in their income levels, health systems, and medicine prices. These trends suggest that medicine consumption will continue to pose significant challenges and opportunities for health policy and economic development in the coming years.

Objective: We developed my family pharmacy app to help you reduce the huge cost of medication by managing your stock at home. With our app, you can track your intake and expiry dates, order and refill prescriptions online, get personalized health tips and reminders, consult with doctors and pharmacists, and share your records with your family and caregivers. The app uses deep learning to give you the best advice and protects your privacy and security with encryption and cloud storage. By using our app, you can enjoy the following benefits:

+ Improve your medication adherence and avoid missing doses or taking the wrong medication.

+ Prevent drug interactions and side effects by checking the compatibility of your medications.

+ Save time and money by ordering and refilling your prescriptions online from trusted pharmacies.

+ Access reliable and up-to-date information about your medications, such as dosage, instructions, warnings, and alternatives.

+ Stay healthy and informed by receiving personalized health tips and reminders based on your medical conditions.

+ Connect with your healthcare providers and get professional advice and support.

+ Share your medication history and records with your family and caregivers for better coordination and safety.

My pharmacy app is a smart and convenient solution for managing your health and wellness. It uses deep learning algorithms to analyze your data and provide you with the best recommendations. It also ensures your privacy and security by encrypting your information and storing it on a secure cloud.

My family pharmacy app is a powerful tool that is developed based on a cross-industry standard process for data mining (CRISP-DM) within six steps: problem understanding, image data understanding, data pre-processing, data processing, data post-processing, and development. This app can evaluate and extract valuable knowledge from various types of data, such as images and sound for different medical tasks: diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and patient management. Also, these data are collected to help researchers in different domains.

My family pharmacy app, as a computational process including algorithms at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and databases, deals with a large volume of drug images. The purpose of my family pharmacy app is to find knowledge from drug images, which is expressed in a comprehensible structure using the proposed machine learning algorithm to determine valuable preterm and classify the drug based on disease.

The Intelligent Family Pharmacy (Mobile App) won the National Innovator Award at the 7th Festival of Inventors, initiatives, and Innovation 2019. This app helps families take care of their health and medication needs and reduces the problems of drug use.

You can access our dataset at the repository.