Should Pharmacy Informatics Officer Positions be Based in, and Report to, the Pharmacy Department, Rather than the Health Information Technology Department? - THE 'PRO' SIDE

摘要

Pharmacy computer systems have been around since the 1970s but were initially used primarily in the retail pharmacy sector. It was not until the late 1980s and early 1990s that computerized pharmacy information systems began to become common in hospital pharmacy departments. The primary objective of computerizing hospital pharmacies in those early years was for inventory management and financial reporting. However, in the past decade, the situation has changed quite dramatically.