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Blunders of drug prescription by doctors are common in Hong Kong, with rising incidence due to over-worked doctors, especially in public hospitals. In fact, it’s a world-wide problem causing harm or even death to patients and a high cost. Doctors face medicolegal or even criminal consequences because of medication errors. Common errors include prescription of drug with known allergy, undesirable drug-drug interactions, incorrect dosage without consideration of patient’s renal or liver function and special clinical conditions. Current system in hospital depends on a pharmacist to cross-check doctors’ prescriptions, but this is prone to human errors. Elimination of such medication errors are important to avoid hazards to patients. With the advent of AI, it is conceivable that a software capable of automatic checking of drug prescription using AI can be a solution to the problem of medication errors. Our invention is a software using artificial intelligence to automatically cross-check doctors’ prescription. Alert will be triggered if there is potential error in the prescription after matching patient’s drug history and clinical conditions. To our knowledge, this is the first software aimed to safeguard patients by automatic checking of drug prescriptions. The project aims to develop a web-based software using artificial intelligence to automatically screen doctors’ prescription for possible errors based on patient’s clinical condition, and to provide recommendations to doctors on correct prescription.