PHARMACY DRUG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PROVIDING PATIENT SPECIFIC DRUG DOSING, DRUG INTERACTION ANALYSIS, ORDER GENERATION, AND PATIENT DATA MATCHING

摘要

A pharmacy drug management system provides pharmacy drug management software for patient-specific drug dosing, drug interaction analysis, order generation, and patient data matching. When a drug is added for a patient, the system detects if the drug is a doser drug requiring precise therapeutic dosing and also detects if the drug will cause any drug interaction problems for the patient, reducing the likelihood of clinical misjudgments. The system checks for drug interaction problems resulting from drugs, food allergies, and the medical condition of the patient. An on-screen order may then be generated. A doctor or pharmaceutist thus is aware of any drug interaction problems before writing an order for the patient. If a selected drug is a doser drug, the system uses pharmacokinetic equations specific to the patient data to calculate the appropriate therapeutic dosing parameters. Through a therapy management module of the pharmacy drug management software, a clinical professional may access a formulary listing available drugs, advisories for drugs, drug and medical condition information help files, an infusion calculator, a note for recording patient events, access to a patient data matching database for locating therapies for patients with similar medical conditions to the particular patient, and other therapy tools, all from the screen of a computer system running the software.