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Future Prospects in Pharmacy IT

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While there is now experience of discrete IT systems in medicines management – pharmacy/stock control, prescribing, decision support, electronic health records and supply automation – the use of IT to provide an integrated pharmacy and medicines management service has not yet been fully realised. This has been for a number of reasons:

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Goundrey-Smith, S. (2013). Future Prospects in Pharmacy IT. In: Information Technology in Pharmacy. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2780-2_8

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