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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Machine Learning Reduces Polypharmacy in Behavioral Health

By Gina Shaw
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A machine learning program has successfully reduced polypharmacy, improved medication adherence and lowered healthcare costs in patients with behavioral health conditions, presenters said at AMCP Nexus 2023, held in Orlando, Fla.

These conditions are a significant and growing burden on the healthcare system; a 2020 Milliman study of 2017 commercial healthcare claims data from 21 million people found that while only 27% had a behavioral health condition, those patients accounted for