USE OF COMPUTERS IN

COMMUNITY
PHARMACY
Presented By:
Arslan Saeed
Atif Ahmad
Haseeb Ahmad
 Contents
• Communiy Pharmacy
• Use of computer in Community pharmacy
• Clerical, Managerial and Professional use of computer
• Prescription processing
• Inventory control
• Pharmacy Softwares
• Advantages and Limitations of using computer in community
pharmacy
Community Pharmacy:
• Community pharmacy includes all of those establishments that are
privately owned and whose function, in varying degree, is to serve
society's need for both drug products and the pharmaceutical services.
• It's objective is to improve the professional standards of pharmacy and
encourage realisation of the social aims of the profession as a part of
public health and as a pharmaceutical service to the community.
• As a community pharmacist your job would be all about helping patients
and the public, assessing their conditions and making decisions about
which medicines they should take. You'll be involved in dispensing
medicines and offering your patients advice and practical help on keeping
healthy.
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Computers have invaded in every walk of life and almost all commercial
organizations and business firms have undergone significant
computerization with no exception of community pharmacy establishment.
At present community pharmacy use computer for selective pharmaceutical
purposes.

Following is a list of majority of community pharmacy functions that could

computerized:
1. Clerical
2. Managerial
3. Professional
4. Clinical Support
5. Accounting and Business Management
1. Clerical:
• Preperation of prescription levels.
• Providing a receipt for patient.
• Generation of hard copy record of transaction.
• Calculation of prescription cost.
• Maintenance of perpetual record of inventory record.
• Accumulation of suggested orders based on suggested order quantity.
• Automatically order required inventory via electronic transmission.
• Calculation and storage of annual withholding statments.
Inventory Control:
• Inventory control is the process of keeping the right number of
products in stock to avoid shortages, overstocks, and other costly
problems. Inventory control focuses on cutting the number of slow-
selling products a company purchases while also increasing the
number of high-selling products.
Prescription Processing:
Its gives the information you need to find out if you’re getting what the doctor
ordered. Prescription processing is invaribly one of the main activities going on
within a pharmacy on a day to day basis,and computers are used to make this
process more reliable and efficient.
1. Prescription filling:- Pantient name, doctor name, drug name, quantity,
prescription number, prints the lable, calculate the price, discount,etc.
2. Prescription Refilling:- pharmacist enter data regarding the prescription if data
not available, to avoid any warning message appears if the prescription is out of
data.
3. E-prescription:- E-prescriptions are computer-generated pescriptions created by
the healthcare provider and sent directly to the pharmacy. E-prescriptions are
sent electonically through a private, secure, and closed network.
(Fast, convenient, legible, economical)
2. Managerial:
• Preperation of daily sales report
• Generation of complete sales analysis as required for a day, week, month,
year and to date for number of prescriptions handled and amount in cash.
• Estimation of profit and financial ratio analysis.
• Production of drug usage reports.
• Calculation of gross margin, reported in all manners of details.
• Calculate numbrer of prescriptions handled per unit time, to help in staff
scheduling.
• Printing of billing a payment summery.
3. Professional:
• Building a patient profile.
• Storing of information on drugs and other allergies to warn about
possible problems.
• Retrieval of current drug regimen for review.
• Updating of patient information in file.
• Printing of drug-drug and drug-food interactions.
• Maintaining of physician's file including speciality, designation,
address, office hours etc.
4. Clinical Support:
• Patient medication profile
• Patient education profile
• Consulting pharmacist activities
• Drug utilization monitoring
COMMUINICATION:
Online communication allows the pharmacist and other pharmacy staff
to keep in contact with their own organisation and also with the
professional committee.
5. Accounting and Business
Management:
• Business record keeping
• Prescription analysis
What is Pharmacy Software?

Pharmacy software primarily assists pharmacy businesses with filling

and processing prescriptions, tracking inventory, and point of sale. The
software stores important information about medications and patients
to ensure the right prescriptions are given out in the correct dosage.
Pharmacy management systems also automate repetitive processes like
refill requests and insurance verification. This allows pharmacists to
focus more on patient care and less time on paperwork.
Pharmacy Software Features & Capabilities:
• To streamline operations pharmacy management systems offer the below capabilities
• Inventory controls & management
• Medication knowledge management
• Document management
• Medication adherence monitoring
• Patient communication & SMS notification
• Prescription pre-check, medication disbursement workflow
• Mail order prescription management
• Barcode, fulfillment, shipping, verification
• Centralized patient information
• Patient data synchronization between pharmacy, physician
• Point-of-sale, billing management
• Revenue cycle management
• Claims processing and conciliation
• Pricing Information
Some important softwares used in community pharmacy are:

• PioneerRx (UK, US, China)

• WinRx (UK, US, China)
• Liberty Software (UK, China)
• PrimeRx (US, China)
• BestRx (US)
• VIP Pharmacy
• Winpharm (UK, US, China)
• Cloudpital (Pakistan)
• RxGENESYS Suite etc.
• PioneerRx
PioneerRx is a pharmacy software that manages patient info, data entry, workflow,
financials, inventory, and reporting. An integrated point of sale system is also
included to mange payment processing, PSE tracking, and loyalty programs.
• WinRx
WinRx is a Windows-based pharmacy management system from Computer-Rx. It is
designed with a focus on improving workflow. The most important features of
WinRx include prescription monitoring, inventory tracking, and reporting or
workflow management.
• Liberty Software
Liberty Software is a pharmacy system designed to help you enhance customer
service, increase patient safety, and improve profitability. Liberty Software consists
of three solutions - overall pharmacy management, point of sale, and multi-store
management.
 Advantages of using computer:
• It gives them more time to help the customers
• Using the computers reduce the time, expenditure and the manpower required for any
kind of work
• The computers can store huge amounts of medical data
• They enable speedy processing of information , They can compile the information into
large databases & access shared information from all over the world through internet.
• The Prescription processing will be long-lasting and expensive without using the
computers.
• The computers can help run the business operations efficiently. They make it easier to
handle the routine business tasks such as recording, tracking and paying the vendor bills.
• The computers can improve the patient safety, they help to provide high-quality care,
and they help the patients make the most of their medicines as they provide the tools
for monitoring the efficacy and safety of medicines in use.
 Limitations of using computer:
• The main disadvantage to computer-based medical records is privacy
concerns. They can be hacked , illegally downloaded , lost in a crash ,
etc.
• The computer software & the other electronic elements, can cost
more, unlike paper records , which simply require a few more copies.
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