Improving prescribing through big data approaches—Ten years of the Scottish Prescribing Information System

Medicines are a major component of modern healthcare delivery, both in resource consumption and as drivers of innovation. The ever‐increasing application of digitalisation within day‐to‐day living and as part of our healthcare systems—with the resultant data generation—presents the opportunity to better define the populations exposed to medicines, and their benefits and harm in real world settings. This article outlines the development of the...