MELBOURNE-BASED startup, Strong Room, is providing facial recognition software to assist pharmacies offering opioid replacement therapy.
The company has integrated artificial intelligence (AI) into 35 Victorian pharmacies, to identify patients and minimise potential dispensing errors, business website smartcompany reports.
Strong Room co-founder, Max Mito, told the publication that the business had originally set up with the goal of integrating AI into healthcare more generally, but had shifted focus to facial recognition to meet the needs of pharmacists they had been working with.
"They just weren't happy with the industry standard [opioid replacement software]," he said.
"We thought we could do a better job."
Strong Room's website said the use of facial recognition could cut hours for a pharmacist's day, freeing them up to focus on patient care and improving outcomes.
The company said the system made it easier for locum and casual pharmacists to identify opioid replacement patients.
The system also provides patient alerts so pharmacists can keep track of patients who are expected to call in the following day, and those who have missed doses, while also allowing pharmacists create dynamic reports.
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