Pharmacy management system
Abstract : Generally, the electronic technology has been implemented to automate the traditional systems. So, different copy of management systems in different scope were presented. These systems include the services provided to company as well as people, such as, healthcare. The traditional data management systems for pharmacy as example, suffer from the capacity, time consuming, medicines accessibility, managing the medicines store as well as the need of qualified staff according to the requirements of employer expectations. In this paper, a hospital e-pharmacy system is proposed in order to facilitate the job, outdo the mentioned problems. A data management system to the Iraqi hospital's pharmacy is proposed which is divided into two main parts: database, and Graphical User Interface (GUI) frames. The database built using SQL Server contains the pharmacy information related to the medicines, patient information….etc. the GUI frames ease the use of the proposed system by unskilled users. The proposal system is responsible on monitoring and controlling the work of pharmacy in hospital in terms of management of medicine issuing ordering and hospital reports.
? The person who has access to this part of the system can insert new medicine, update existed one and check the medicines quantities.
? This is pharmacy management system; it is used to manage most pharmacy related activities in the pharmacy.
? The primary aim of is to improve accuracy and enhance safety and efficiency in the pharmaceutical store.
? In other words that the pharmacist will have more time in counseling his/her customers, where the goal of patient counseling is one of the important solution to avoid medication error.
? Developing an application for android devices that works on the same database which is the mini of (MySql).
? One of the goals of this work is to produce an integrated data management system to hospital pharmacy that can fixed most of the traditional system problems.
? At this part of system the pharmacist managing the medicines issuing and showing the issued ones to an inpatient.
? This kind of work may lead to mistake by workers and lead to a major problems.
? This kind of problems the urgent need is to develop a Pharmacy management system that will prove beneficial for the Pharmacy.
? The pharmacist about drugs that are close to expiry, preventing those drugs from being sold and also providing solution to the earlier stated problems.
• The proposed system is equipped with alarm that alerts the admin about all medicines which are reached the minimum quantity and medicines that expired.
• The proposed system managing as most as possible the whole job of hospital pharmacy.
• The proposed system was tested in terms of registration function by entering new records for inpatient and outpatient, release and update function.
• Developing the proposed system from windows based application to web based application to be more global and the connections with the pharmacies and warehousing in distance can be offered and guaranteed.
? The pharmacy systems are considered as a computer systems which are used to managing and storing the medicines in pharmacy.
? These systems are replaced the manual systems with high efficient functions such as: stock management and control, medicine labeling, knowing the medication history of the patient and supporting the process of hospital's pharmacy.
? The system is working inside a hospital in an efficient way.
? The e-pharmacy system increases accuracy, efficiency, and the working speed comparing with the manual system.
? The system needs efficient training courses to the users to be allowed and able working on it.
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