Write various applications of computer in pharmaceutical and clinical study?
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Computers in pharmacy are used for the information of drug data, records and files, drug management (creating, modifying, adding and deleting data in patient files to generate reports), business details.
Clinical pharmacist may use computers for therapeutic drug monitoring; which ar every potent and having very narrow therapeutic range like cardiac glycosides, anticonvulsants. Computer program are designed to calculate drug dosage to suit individual patients need.
There are lots of computer applications in pharmaceutical and clinical To develop a Clinical study/trial,they use Computer application create a software using various programming languages starting from Java,SQL etc.
Each CRO/Service based /Product based company will have their own Clinical Trial System standard system which are configurable based on client needs.
They will have a Electronic data capture (EDC) system which will be used to capture all the Patients details with their disease history,medication details,lab results etc.
Pharmaceutical Industry has all the drug details with their Composition , manufacturer details ,price of the medicine. This will be helpful to find alternative medicine for the same composition and compare with price,expiry date etc.
To send few medical details to insurance companies or other hospitals or lab, here comes an application for Medical Coding so that data which are sent are not read by unauthorized user.
For any ongoing Clinical Study worldwide,drugs required in all hospitals for the upcoming patients can be calculated using computer applications.
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