MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641025518 A) filed by Vignan Institute Of Pharmaceutical Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on March 4, for 'pharmacist-led deprescribing protocols integrated with electronic health records for elderly polypharmacy.'
Inventor(s) include K. Priyadarshini Reddy; Bbvm Kishore; M. Nagabharathi; P. Prasanna Kumar; M. Lakshmi Banusri; and M. Vinod Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention is a pharmacist-led deprescribing protocol system integrated with electronic health records (EHRs) proposed to systematically reduce unnecessary medications in elderly patients with polypharmacy, where pharmacists take a central role in identifying, prioritizing, and safely stopping or tapering drugs that may cause more harm than benefit, all while embedding the process directly into routine clinical workflows for seamless, real-time decision-making and documentation. This method stands out by creating a structured, pharmacist-driven pathway that combines automated risk flagging with collaborative review features, ensuring deprescribing decisions are evidence-based, patient-centered, and continuously tracked without relying on separate external tools or infrequent manual checks."
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