Technical Execution: Our code currently works for all drugs on the Canadian government Drug and Health Products Portal. A lot of work still needs to be done when we input a general drug name including search suggestions. Some drugs do not have “monographs” from the Canadian government website. It is used in a meaningful way since Claude is used here to summarize the important points in the monograph for the drugs, which includes section 4. Dosage and Administration, 7. Warning and Precautions, and section 11. Storage, Stability in the monograph pdf. Since the monograph for each of these drugs has a myriad of information, we wanted to condense it down to information that matters to the average consumer. Currently there are limitations to how many API calls we can make to Claude given a span of time. We also intended to cache drug summary information on local machines to make information pull up quicker but we ran out of time.
Presentation: For our project we went with Track 1: Biology and Physical Health: One of the challenges in this track was to make healthcare more accessible. As most of us live in BC, we focused on making a simple app that could inform you whether drugs are covered under which BC health plans, as well as provide necessary information if available on the government of Canada’s website.
Impact Potential: In our current online climate with a lot of misinformation and disinformation especially in the health care sector, we felt that it is important to give people a source where they could reliably view and consult with given government approved data. The main target audience are those that are on prescription. Having a single website that lists which drugs are covered under what plans and what the drugs are can save people the time and hassle it would need to navigate between their own research on the drugs and looking up what is covered for them. It could definitely be scaled given time in combination with the local BC PharmaCare database and the government’s Portal and can definitely be combined with other Provincial databases.
Ethical Alignment: Develop tools with the intent of helping the average BC resident learn what drugs their care covers. For drug information, only using Claude to summarize drug information supplied by the government of Canada's website when available. While we do acknowledge this as a weakness if there is not yet any publicly available monographs on a specific drug, there is an argument to be made that it is the safest thing to do.
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