Computers in Pharmacy

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Computers in Pharmacy

• Jenna Foster
• April 24, 2008

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• Pharmacy (from the Greek f??µa??? 'pharmakos'
  drug) is the health profession that links the
  health sciences with the chemical sciences, and
  it is charged with ensuring the safe and
  effective use of medication

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History of Pharmacy

• 754 the first drugstores were opened by Muslim
  pharmacists in Baghdad
• Chinese and Japanese medicinal practices stem
  back to this same time period
• 1970s first generation of pharmacy-specific
  computer technology to retail and hospital
  pharmacies

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Internet Pharmacies

• Since about the year 2000, a growing number of
  Internet pharmacies have been established
  worldwide. Many of these pharmacies are similar
  to community pharmacies, and in fact, many of
  them are actually operated by brick-and-mortar
  community pharmacies that serve consumers online
  and those that walk in their door. The primary
  difference is the method by which the medications
  are requested and received. Some customers
  consider this to be more convenient and private
  method rather than traveling to a community
  drugstore where another customer might overhear
  about the drugs that they take. Internet
  pharmacies (also known as Online Pharmacies) are
  also recommended to some patients by their
  physicians if they are homebound.

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Pharmacy Informatics

• Aka pharmacoinformatics
• the application of computers to the storage,
  retrieval and analysis of drug and prescription
  information. Pharmacy informaticists work with
  pharmacy information management systems that help
  the pharmacist make excellent decisions about
  patient drug therapies with respect to, medical
  insurance records, drug interactions, as well as
  prescription and patient information.

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Nuclear Pharmacy

• specialty area of pharmacy practice dedicated to
  the compounding and dispensing of radioactive
  materials for use in nuclear medicine procedures
• Cyclotron accelerate charged particles using a
  high-frequency, alternating voltage (potential
  difference). A perpendicular magnetic field
  causes the particles to spiral almost in a circle
  so that they re-encounter the accelerating
  voltage many times.
• Particle accelerator

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Other Electronic Applications

• Electronic Prescription Refill Requests
• Allow doctors to authorize refills without
  patients haviing to schedule in-office visits
• Recently, computer systems that link patients
  with their control presctiptions, are undergoing
  implementation
• Allows governmental regulation
• Drug Manufacturing systems are controlled by
  computer systems, allowing easy ordering as well
  as a rolling inventory

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Pharmacy Robotics

• Video
• http//youtube.com/watch?vCDrwNw4m_H8

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References

• www.wikipedia.org
• http//youtube.com/watch?vCDrwNw4m_H8
• allpharmacyjobs.com/pet_net_jobs.htm