Drug Management System-determine the number of pharmaceutical drugs that remain after daily administration to the patients.

Drug Management System

Medication management is confusing and requires careful attention. The medical experts find it hard to track the records of the dosage used in the hospitals and know when to add up the drug stock. In the hospital’s drugs expire or misses in the hospital because the supply chain department fails to get the right amount of medicine remaining after a given time or the correct dose that is out of stock. There is no clear way of estimating the number of patients to come for the medication in hospitals because health issues are non-predictable. So medical experts find rough time in determining the number of pharmaceutical drugs that remain after daily administration to the patients.  Health officers can manage the difficulty of medicinal management by coming up with a system to monitor this.

As an upcoming expert in the education sector, I have seen that there is s need to mitigate ways to ease drug management in hospitals. The issue can be corrected by coming up with a tool to monitor the entry of a drug in the hospital and how drugs leave the hospital. This system is essential to the pharmacists who issue medications so that they can be able to place orders when the drugs are depleted. It can help in the management of the whole medical sector by ensuring that the record can be easily tracked. This ensures there is efficiency in the way drugs are administered in the hospital. The tool will serve in ensuring that even if the person in charge of monitoring the drugs is absent, the record can still be followed by the one who is present and place an order if the drugs are out of stock. Also, the orders that will be placed henceforth will be up to date and the expiring of the drugs while in the pharmacy room will reduce.

The tools to develop will be named Drug Management System (DMS) with various columns. Any new order that arrives in the hospital chemist will be updated in the column of a number of drugs in the pharmacy as per the description. When the drug is given to the patient, the pharmacists writes the dose given. There is another column to record the medicine in stock. The system will be programmed in such a way that it will automatically update on the amount of drug remaining column. So, what the practitioner record is the entry dose of the drugs, which gives the amount of drug that are received in the hospital. The second thing to record is the name of the drug against the amount. The third thing to record is the amount of drug that is issued to the patients against the patient’s name. The column for the remaining number of pills will update automatically. So, the technician who will be hired to design the tool (computer expert) will have to code the system in that way.

This system will have benefits because no order will be left our unrecorded. The second thing is that there will be no time when the drugs will be in the chemist in excess. Even the manager of the institution will be able to get the record any time, and the auditing process will be eased. This toll is supposed to appear in the following form

Figure 1: Drug management system