Information Technology in Pharmacy: An Integrated Approach

✍ Scribed by Stephen Goundrey-Smith (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Health Informatics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

IT in Pharmacy: An Integrated Approach aims to describe and discuss the major areas of pharmacy IT innovation (e-prescribing, drug databases, electronic patient records, clinical decision support, pharmacy management systems, robots and automation etc) from a systems and a professional perspective. It will also consider how the areas of pharmacy IT link together and can be used to enable and develop pharmacy professional practice. The book will examine pharmacy IT from an international perspective, taking into account all parts of the world where IT systems are used in pharmacy practice – namely – North America, the UK, Western Europe and Australia – and will compare pharmacy IT in the different regions. This book is from the author of Principles of Electronic Prescribing (Springer, 2008)

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
IT Enabling Pharmacy Practice....Pages 1-26
Electronic Patient Records....Pages 27-58
Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration in Hospitals....Pages 59-93
Pharmacy Automation....Pages 95-119
Electronic Medicines Management in Primary Care....Pages 121-150
Pharmacy Management Systems....Pages 151-173
Barcodes and Logistics....Pages 175-192
Future Prospects in Pharmacy IT....Pages 193-217
Back Matter....Pages 219-240

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics; Public Health; Practice Management