POLAR

Project Name: Polypharmacy – Drug Interactions – Risks

Project Category: use case of the Medical Informatics Initiative

Heads of Project:

• Prof. Dr. med. Markus Löffler (Leipzig University)
• Prof. Dr. André Scherag (Jena University Hospital)

Duration and Status: 1.2.2020 – 31.12.2022, ongoing Data Use Project

Data Types Provided: medication data

Abstract:
In the POLAR project, medical informatics specialists, biometricians, epidemiologists, pharmacists, clinical pharmacologists and healthcare researchers from 21 institutions, including 13 university hospitals, are working together to collect data on prescribed drugs (e.g. medication plans) as well as on prescriptions and drug dispensations from pharmacies, to classify polymedications with regard to Potentially Inadequate Medication (PIM) and a selected range of drugs as high-risk prescriptions, to digitally represent scores to identify high-risk patients for drug-related problems and to identify the occurrence of adverse drug reactions and their consequences at an early stage or to avoid them altogether.

Funding:
This project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) under the funding code (FKZ), here site-specific FKZ: 01ZZ1910C.

Link: description of the project at the website of the Medical Informatics Initiative