The scoping review examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is applied across all stages of medication management in rural healthcare settings, from prescribing to post-administration monitoring. It identifies four main themes: the types of AI used, the medication phases impacted, the effectiveness in reducing errors, and rural-specific challenges such as infrastructure and alert fatigue. Studies show machine‑learning surveillance can cut prescribing and transcription errors by 34% to 80%, yet barriers like governance gaps, funding limits, and clinician resistance remain.
By Jeong-ah Kim, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Daniel Terry, Maryam Rouhi
EHR2Trace is a system that transforms electronic health records from multiple sources into a standardized, traceable event format suitable for training and evaluating patient world models and clinical agents. It links each event to its original record, separates the event time from the time the information became available, and distinguishes between medication orders, dispensing, and administration. The tool supports both OMOP and MEDS data models, includes automated validation, and was tested on three clinical datasets, converting 846.4 million events and detecting all injected faults.
By Xinye Yang, Yuli Wang, Cheng Ting Lin, Harrison Bai
arXiv:2606. 04262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for everyday health questions, including whether a user can safely take another dose of an over-the-counter (OTC) medication.
By Maroof Kousar, Yibo Hu
The paper introduces HarmReduction, a benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) on their ability to provide accurate and safe harm reduction information to people who use drugs (PWUD). The benchmark, HR-Basic, contains 2,160 question‑answer‑evidence pairs covering safety boundary checks, quantitative value provision, and polysubstance risk inference. Experiments show that even state‑of‑the‑art LLMs struggle with accuracy and can pose severe safety risks, underscoring the need for a dedicated evaluation framework.
By Kaixuan Wang, Chenxin Diao, Jason T. Jacques, Zhongliang Guo, Shuai Zhao
arXiv:2609.09356v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: At Noora Health, our nurses answer more than 50,000 medical queries per month on our WhatsApp-based service that provides caregivers with on-demand sup...
By Shobhit Jagga, Aman Dalmia, Niharika Priyadarshini, Neelima Devadas, Amrita K Prasen, Nikhil Nalin, Santhosh SJ, Sreeram Nurani Ramasubramanian, Muhammed Afeer K, Anubhav Arora
arXiv:2609.06976v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As medical wearables become integrated into daily chronic disease care, effectively interpreting longitudinal monitoring data is essential for patients...
By Yuchen Niu, Yanan Ma, Srinivasan Nandakumar, Maolin Chen, Viktor Schlegel, Kexin Wei, Ling Cheng, Anna Bird, Anil Anthony Bharath, Siew-Kei Lam