Information Technology in Pharmacy - Goundrey-Smith, Stephen

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Résumé :
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)...

Biographie:

Stephen Goundrey-Smith is a pharmacist, specialising in pharmacy informatics, digital practice and medicines system safety. He has worked as a researcher and consultant in electronic prescribing, digital medicines, healthcare systems and pharmacy professionalism for almost 25 years. Stephen qualified as a pharmacist in 1989, and has worked variously in hospital and community pharmacy, in the international pharmaceutical industry and as a prescribing and pharmacy software analyst in the healthcare IT industry. He has a MSc in Information Science, and a PhD in Medical Ethics. He is the author of two books on pharmacy IT - Principles of Electronic Prescribing and IT in Pharmacy: An Integrated Approach (1st Edition) as well as two books on the ethics of futuristic biomedical innovation. He has published widely and is a regular conference speaker in both pharmacy informatics and technology and medical/technological ethics....

Sommaire:

Stephen Goundrey-Smith is a pharmacist, specialising in pharmacy informatics, digital practice and medicines system safety. He has worked as a researcher and consultant in electronic prescribing, digital medicines, healthcare systems and pharmacy professionalism for almost 25 years. Stephen qualified as a pharmacist in 1989, and has worked variously in hospital and community pharmacy, in the international pharmaceutical industry and as a prescribing and pharmacy software analyst in the healthcare IT industry. He has a MSc in Information Science, and a PhD in Medical Ethics. He is the author of two books on pharmacy IT - Principles of Electronic Prescribing and IT in Pharmacy: An Integrated Approach (1st Edition) as well as two books on the ethics of futuristic biomedical innovation. He has published widely and is a regular conference speaker in both pharmacy informatics and technology and medical/technological ethics....