Developing countries lack enough human and financial resources, making it difficult for them to
respond adequately to the population's essential health needs. Using digital applications to promote
the rational use of medicines presents a solution to increase the health system's efficiency and
encourage saving limited medicinal resources. This project aimed to develop a drug database
completed with equivalence search and prescription analysis options as a contribution to the rational
use of medicines in Burkina Faso. Subsequently, the digital application developed was called
“APURMED”. The journey towards achieving this objective revealed the importance of this clinical
decision support tool but also revealed the remaining challenges. Among these, is constant adaptation
to the evolving needs and contexts of patients and science, to increase the advantages while
minimizing the disadvantages.
Digital application, rational use of medicines, drug database, equivalence search option, prescription analysis options.