Japan System Techniques Co., Ltd. (JAST) has developed a statistics dashboard service called Medicine Tiger concerning the use of drugs for diseases and injuries and started providing this service on April 9, 2024. The new service was developed with the cooperation of Ataru Igarashi, an associate professor at Yokohama City University. Medicine Tiger uses the REZULT medical big data platform that is based on the large volume of health insurance invoices held by JAST.

By using health insurance invoice data, Medicine Tiger can calculate the rates at which drugs were prescribed for specific diseases or injuries as well as rates at which diseases or injuries are linked with specific prescription drugs. Medicine Tiger then generates a list of the top ten. Data can be categorized by dates, gender, age, type of prescription and region.

This makes it possible to see with ease differences in prescription patterns when changing parameters. Data analysis concerning differences between prescription drugs received at hospitals and at pharmacies is possible too. In addition to performing these basic functions, Medicine Tiger can be customized to match the requirements of individual customers.

Service name: Medicine Tiger. Start of service: April 9, 2024. This service can support research activities and is useful for a diverse array of activities in any business field.

JAST assumes the followings cases for the use of this service. Marketing: Drug prescription trends, market share surveys and other information for determining marketing strategies. Medical device development: Clinical trial feasibility studies, examinations to establish protocols for clinical trials.

Pharmacists: Examinations to find alternate drugs to replace drugs that will no longer be available. Physicians: Provision of information about drugs that cannot be used together.