Pharmacy Practice and AI: the Potential for Improving Care Outcomes for Residents in the PALTC Continuum

With the increasing shortage of health care providers, the number of older adults needing care is rapidly approaching a tipping point, outstripping the availability of health care professionals to meet the demand. Likewise, incorporating the volume of data from testing and medical encounters required by regulatory agencies is approaching the point beyond which an individual’s capacity to analyze and extract actionable recommendations exists. Medication management is being energized by the application of artificial intelligence (AI) into the practices of medicine and pharmacy.