Journal of Health & Medical Informatics

Department of HMIS & IT, Lady Reading Hospital MTI Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Publications

• Review Article   
  Establishing and implementing the role of pharmacy informatics lab in a tertiary care hospital
  Author(s): Aziz Ullah Khan*, Muhammad Amir and Maqsood Ahmad
  
  Department of Pharmacy Services is a part of the clinical support services available in LRH-MTI. Pharmacy informatics lab was established with an aim to develop an interdepartmental drug information system that will record individual patient's medications history, drug allergies, prescribed and dispensed medications and current as well as past drug treatments. The prime focus of the system is to perform automatic drug-interaction checks while adding to the patients' medication profiles. With the establishment of the first Pharmacy informatics lab of the region, the department of pharmacy services LRH-MTI has achieved two major objectives; implementation of electronic prescribing and administration systems and pharmacy information management system. Vigorous and ongoing trainings of all healthcare professionals including pharmacists, prescribers, nursing team, technicians and n.. Read More»
  

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