PillsPro and how it helps patients

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Customer: Zásobyliekov.sk

Software development • UX/UI • Branding • Marketing

PillsPro

PillsPro is a pharmaceutical assistant in your pocket. You can easily access all the information regarding your pills. Overview of counts and prices lets you easily decide when is the right time to order new goods. Every drug has its possible interactions, with other drugs and conditions listed. BMI calculator and the possibility of notes makes advisory services easier, even when it comes to unusual clients. Pillspro will make your lists of medicines more accessible therefore bringing more efficiency into your work and more  satisfied clients into your pharmacy.

Problem and goal

  • 20% of medicaments that could save lives is laying around in storages.
  • Drugs are not where they are supposed to be due to disinformation and badly constructed analytics in pharmaceutical systems.
  • This costs pharmacies min. 100 $ per month and unused drugs are thrown out.
  • Distributors have empty vans riding back from pharmacies to warehouses.
  • Pharmaceutical companies lack analytics about real medicine usage, they just know the amounts and prices of sold medicine to the pharmacy.

Short summary of key tasks:

  • Research
  • AI operated supply management framework
  • PillsPro system

How does this affect patients?

When doctors can’t get a hold of the right medications, they must find other ways to compensate for needed drugs. This can lead to increased amount of complications and development of other diseases due to an increased amount of side effects. This leads to lower quality of life where patient remains sick and if there is no way to substitute the drug with other medications it may lead to death.

Solution

We developed an AI-operated supply management framework that uses neural networks and self-enhancing algorithms, which continuously improve their predictions based on new pharmacy data, to redistribute drugs according to their due dates, rarity, availability, and other important metrics.

Effective system

We trained neural networks on the data we gathered in pharmacies so that the system could effectively work with large datasets and make quick decisions in hundreds of drug redistributions.

Project development

PillsPlan app

PillsPlan was a mobile app reminder for people who take lots of pills.

During our research in pharmacies we found out that pharmacists could really use personal assistants in the form of app. We developed a demo of the app with the most demanded features by the pharmacists. By this time, we visited many e-health conferences and started to understand the real problem that pharmacies face.

PillsPro

After questioning seniors and patients who take lots of pills about drug availability, we knew there was a problem to be solved. We did in-depth research, questioning pharmacies and pharmacists about the drug availability problems and found out that there are 4 main problems:

  1. Supply overload
  2. Scarcity of medicine
  3. Delivery problems
  4. Inefficient analytics

With these problems in mind we developed the PillsPro of today.

Our business model

Different entities save money thanks to our software:

  • Pharmacies and chains – make money because they are provided with better analytics, pricing strategies, medicine availability and have more active stocks.
  • Pharmaceutical companies – make money because they achieve more users thanks to our software. They have also more accurate data and usage monitoring.
  • Delivery companies – save money because their vans are not empty on the way back, and also they get more orders for redistribution.

Expected Growth and benefits

Medication waste represents a major financial challenge for healthcare systems worldwide. In the United States alone, unused or expired prescription medications are estimated to cost between 2.4 and 5.4 billion USD every year, according to a nationally representative study published in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy (Law et al., 2015).
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25487420/

These figures include medicines dispensed but never used, medications discarded due to expiration, and inefficiencies in handling or storage. While global estimates vary, the data clearly shows that drug waste places a significant economic burden on healthcare providers and supply chains and highlights the strong need for more precise inventory management, smarter monitoring systems, and innovation within pharmaceutical logistics.