Billions In Prescriptions Go Unfilled. This Startup Is Using AI To Fix That.
The post Billions In Prescriptions Go Unfilled. This Startup Is Using AI To Fix That. appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Forus founder Sahir Jaggi Forus Forus reached $1 billion valuation by dealing with the unglamorous admin work of processing scripts so patients can get the drugs they need. Nearly one third of Americans never fill the prescriptions that their doctors order. Sahir Jaggi thinks AI can help. In 2023, he started Forus (then named Tandem) to develop AI software that can handle prescriptions’ administrative backend. The moment a physician writes a scrip, Forus’s system picks it up and processes it, figuring out nitty-gritty details like what medications a patient has tried previously and whether there are restrictions on which pharmacy can fill it. Both the doctor and the patient can see what’s going on in real time. “We reduce a huge amount of headache, paperwork and phone calls,” says Jaggi, 31. The company says that thousands of medical practices and health systems ac