Drug-Drug Interaction Database and Web Services for Hospital System

Abstract

As new diseases are discovered every year, new medicational treatments are also found to fight the disease. Nowadays several symptoms can be occured at once so more than one medication cannot be avoided. Especially in the elderly most of them take 3 to 5 different medications and vitamins daily. Not to mention when they get sick, the number of medicational intakes will also increase. With the increasing number of medicational intake, problems also occur. For instance, some specific medicine cannot be taken together or they will react and have a negative effect. Most of the medication errors come from prescription errors. This error was mostly done by the junior doctor or pharmacy that did not have enough knowledge or information. This project is to create a web service that provides the system to search for a drug interaction with the input of the medicine name. The system was built using the PHP 7.4 and Laravel 8 Framework, Bootstrap and JQuery UI, together with MariaDB 15 database. The medicine brand and its compositions were retrieved from Lira Medika hospital and Bina Medika hospital. While the drug interaction was retrieved from the DrugBank database. After the prototype database system for the drugs was made, the drug interaction was connected through the API connection. API is used to make a connection to another system. The interaction results were then sent back to the system so the results can be viewed by the user. This system is made so that it can act as a support for the pharmacy, apothecary, or even doctors in making their prescription so that human error and prescription error can be reduced.