Created by a Bordeaux company, the Goodmed application prevents adverse drug reactions.
- Iatrogenicity refers to the adverse effects of drugs.
- 10,000 to 30,000 deaths per year are linked to the misuse of drugs.
- The app already has 30,000 users.
Pains, fevers, headaches, infection, illness: there are so many reasons to take medicine. If they relieve our ailments, they can create others: these are the side effects. They are systematically listed on the notices, present in the boxes, but it happens that they are thrown away or lost. A Bordeaux company, Synapse Medicine, has created an application to remedy this problem, released in April 2022. Called Goodmed, its objective is to provide access to reliable and useful information to everyone.
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—Goodmed (@goodmedapp) May 23, 2022
Dangerous misuse
Its founders started from an observation: 212,000 hospitalizations per year are due to adverse drug effects. They increased by 48% between 2007 and 2018, and are partly due to a “inappropriate self-medication or misuse of medication”specify the creators of the application in a communicated.
According to an Opinion Way study for Synapse Medicine, three out of four people resort to self-medication in France, which increases the risk of misuse of a drug. Especially since 68% of respondents said they had difficulty reading drug leaflets and 62% had already experienced not finding the answer to one of their questions in this document. Faced with these observations, the founders of Synapse Medicine, Dr. Clément Goehrs and Dr. Louis Létinier, decided to develop Goodmed. “The objective is not for the patient to manage himself but rather to give him information and to put him in touch with health professionals by warning him that such a drug can be dangerous for him. , especially for those without a prescription”explains Louis Létinier, Medical Director and co-founder of Goodmed at the site Actu.fr.
How does the app work?
Before getting personalized advice, you must first enter some information in the application: age, pregnancy, allergies, pathologies, current treatments, etc. Then, just scan the QR code on the medicine box: the software then tells you if you have any contraindications.
To successfully provide this information, the application is equipped with artificial intelligence applied to medicine, whose data comes from the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products, and health professionals present in the company. According to its founders, all the treatments marketed in France are listed in the application.
