Back

Research Paper on AuditMed: A Single-File, Browser-Based Clinical Evidence Audit Platform Architecture, Current Capabilities, and Proposed Applications in Drug Informatics and Pharmacy Education

Ferguson, D. J.

2026-04-20 health informatics
10.64898/2026.04.19.26351188 medRxiv
Show abstract

BackgroundClinical pharmacists, trainees, and educators rely on multi-database literature retrieval and structured evidence synthesis to answer drug-information questions. Existing workflows require navigation across PubMed, DailyMed, LactMed, interaction checkers, and specialty guideline repositories with manual de-duplication, appraisal, and synthesis. Commercial platforms that integrate these functions are costly and often unavailable in community, rural, and international training contexts. ObjectiveThis report describes the architecture of AuditMed, a single-file, browser-based clinical evidence audit platform, and reports preliminary stress-test results against a complex multi-morbidity case corpus. AuditMed is intended for research and educational use and is not a substitute for clinical judgment or validated commercial clinical decision-support systems. MethodsAuditMed integrates nineteen free, publicly available clinical and biomedical application programming interfaces into a six-stage Search [->] Select [->] Parse [->] Analyze [->] Infer [->] Create pipeline and supports browser-local patient-case ingestion with regex-based HIPAA Safe Harbor de-identification. Preliminary stress-testing was conducted against eleven cases (Cases 30 through 40) from the Complex Clinical Case Compendium Software Validation Suite, each featuring over twenty concurrent active disease states. For each case, the one-click inference pipeline was executed with default settings and the full Clinical Inference Report was captured verbatim. No retrieval-sensitivity, synthesis-fidelity, or time-to-answer endpoints were pre-specified; the exercise was qualitative and oriented toward pipeline behavior under extreme multi-morbidity. ResultsThe pipeline completed without fatal errors for all eleven cases and produced a structured Clinical Inference Report in each instance. Quantitative-finding detection performed as designed for hematologic parameters and cardiac biomarkers. Two parser defects were identified and are reproduced in the appendix: an age-as-fever regex-precedence defect affecting seven cases and a diagnosis-versus-medication parsing defect affecting one case. Evidence-linkage rate varied from zero evidence-linked statements in seven cases to eleven in one case, reflecting dependence of the inference layer on MeSH-indexed literature coverage of the specific case diagnoses. ConclusionsAuditMed is an early-stage, open-source platform whose value at this stage is in providing a free, transparent, auditable workflow for multi-source evidence synthesis with explicit uncertainty flagging. The preliminary results document both robust end-to-end completion under extreme case complexity and specific, reproducible parser defects that will be addressed before formal evaluation. Planned evaluation studies are described.

Matching journals

The top 4 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.

1
npj Digital Medicine
97 papers in training set
Top 0.2%
22.8%
2
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
61 papers in training set
Top 0.2%
14.5%
3
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
45 papers in training set
Top 0.1%
10.2%
4
JAMIA Open
37 papers in training set
Top 0.2%
6.5%
50% of probability mass above
5
Computers in Biology and Medicine
120 papers in training set
Top 0.6%
4.0%
6
JMIR Medical Informatics
17 papers in training set
Top 0.3%
3.7%
7
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
39 papers in training set
Top 0.8%
3.6%
8
Journal of Medical Internet Research
85 papers in training set
Top 2%
1.9%
9
International Journal of Medical Informatics
25 papers in training set
Top 0.7%
1.9%
10
BMC Medical Research Methodology
43 papers in training set
Top 0.5%
1.8%
11
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
18 papers in training set
Top 0.4%
1.7%
12
BMJ Health & Care Informatics
13 papers in training set
Top 0.4%
1.7%
13
The Lancet Digital Health
25 papers in training set
Top 0.4%
1.7%
14
PLOS ONE
4510 papers in training set
Top 54%
1.7%
15
Scientific Reports
3102 papers in training set
Top 61%
1.5%
16
Frontiers in Digital Health
20 papers in training set
Top 0.8%
1.3%
17
GigaScience
172 papers in training set
Top 2%
1.0%
18
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
15 papers in training set
Top 0.6%
0.8%
19
Scientific Data
174 papers in training set
Top 2%
0.8%
20
PLOS Digital Health
91 papers in training set
Top 2%
0.8%
21
Med
38 papers in training set
Top 0.8%
0.8%
22
iScience
1063 papers in training set
Top 31%
0.8%
23
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
27 papers in training set
Top 1%
0.7%
24
Journal of Personalized Medicine
28 papers in training set
Top 2%
0.7%
25
Cureus
67 papers in training set
Top 6%
0.7%
26
Patterns
70 papers in training set
Top 3%
0.7%
27
Clinical and Translational Science
21 papers in training set
Top 1%
0.7%
28
Nature Communications
4913 papers in training set
Top 67%
0.5%