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Rx-Care PHIS
A complex computer system that has been designed to meet needs of your pharmacy or drug store departments. Through the use of such systems, pharmacists can supervise and have inputs on how medication is used.2
Clinical Screening
The Pharmacy Information System can assist in patient care by the monitoring of drug interactions, drug allergies and other possible medication-related complications.3
When a prescription order is entered, the system can check to see if there are any interactions between two or more drugs taken by the patient simultaneously or with any typical food, any known allergies to the drug, and if the appropriate dosage has been given based on the patient’s age, weight and other physiologic factors. Alerts and flags come up when the system picks up any of these.4
Prescription Management
Rx-Care PHIS, the orders are matched to available pharmaceutical products and then dispensed accordingly depending on whether the patient is an inpatient or outpatient.5
It is possible to track all prescriptions passed through the system from who prescribed the drug, when it was prescribed to when it was dispensed. It is also possible to print out prescription labels and instructions on how medication should be taken based on the prescription.6
Inventory Management
Pharmacies require a continuous inventory culture in order to ensure that drugs do not go out of stock. This is made even more difficult when there are multiple dispensing points. When done manually it is very difficult to maintain an accurate inventory.7
Rx-Care PHIS aid inventory management by maintaining an internal inventory of all pharmaceutical products, providing alerts when the quantity of an item is below a set quantity and providing an electronic ordering system that recommends the ordering of the affected item and with the appropriate quantity from approved suppliers.8
Patient Drug Profiles
These are patient profiles managed by the Rx-Care PHIS and contain details of their current and past medications, known allergies and physiological parameters. These profiles are used for used for clinical screening anytime a prescription is ordered for the patient.9
Report Generation
Rx-Care PHIS can generate reports which range from determining medication usage patterns in the hospital to the cost of drugs purchased and /or dispensed.10
Interactivity with other systems
It is important that Rx-Care PHIS should be able to interact with other available systems such as the clinical information systems to receive prescription orders and financial information system for billing and charging.
