<![CDATA[Prediction of the amount of drug use at public health centers is needed to ensure the availability of drugs for patients in service quality management. A good prediction of the amount of medicine needed helps the quality of development planning in the health sector. Scientific developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) deliver a variety of the best techniques for making predictions. By adopting the workings of neural networks (neurons) in the human brain or Artificial Neural Network (ANN), the Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN) algorithm is one of the best algorithms in making predictions, including predicting drug use in health services. The problem of this research is how to design the best architectural model such as the number of neurons in the input layer, hidden layer and other parameters so as to produce predictions with optimal accuracy. This study aims to develop an ANN architectural design with the Backpropagation algorithm to predict the need for drug use. The data used is data on drug use reports from 2015 to 2021 at the Andalas Community Health Center (Puskesmas) Padang City. The steps taken to predict are; collect data, pre-process data and perform analysis, design ANN architecture, make predictions. Learning using the backpropagation algorithm through the initial weight initialization process, activation stage, weight training (weight change) and iteration stage. The proportion of the amount of data used for training is 70% data and 30% for testing data. The results of this study indicate that the best ANN architecture is 12-12-1 with an accuracy of predicting the quantity of drug use reaching 97.87% for paracetamol with a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 2.13%. The prediction results become a reference for the Puskesmas and the Health Office for service planning and development.]]>
