Program Project Hackathon ISoP · Medication Errors Prevention

Cephalosporin Clinical Decision Support System

Paulina Becerra Vivanco, Nuria Arroyo Bustamante, José Ángel Palomares Velázquez, Heriberto Espino Montelongo, Juan Alonso Martínez Thomas, Roberto Rosas Romero, and Lucila Isabel Castro Pastrana

2025

Summary

A clinical decision-support program project focused on preventing high-alert medication errors involving cephalosporins and supporting safer hospital use for healthcare professionals and special populations.

Context

The multidisciplinary hackathon project addresses medication safety for elderly, pregnant, and pediatric populations and combines biomedical, data-science, pharmaceutical, and computational perspectives.

Main contributions

Frames a medication-error prevention workflow around cephalosporin use in hospitals.
Addresses special-population considerations for elderly, pregnant, and pediatric patients.
Brings together biomedical engineering, data science, actuarial science, pharmaceutical and biological science, and computational science disciplines.