Regarding IT,informatics and new technologies in pharmacy

1. ROLE OF IT IN
PHARMACY
KAMLESH SINGH BORA
BPharm 2nd Year

2. TOC
Information Technology
Pharmacy Informatics
Importance of IT in Pharmacy
Technologies
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Technologies
3D Printing
Nano-Technology
mHealth Sensor
Project timeline

3. Information Technology
01 Information Technology is a application of computers and
telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and
manipulate data, often in the context of a business or enterprise.
02 The automation of all the manual work of the Pharmaceutical industry is
based on the principal of IT Systems.
03 There are many different automated softwares that aid the smooth
functioning of pharmaceutical units and improve efficiency, accuracy and
decision making.

4. Pharmacy Informatics
01 Application in IT systems in Pharmaceutical industry is called as
Pharmacy Informatics.
02 The scientific field that deals with biomedical information, data and
knowledge – their storage, retrieval and optimal use for problem – solving
and decision – making.
03 It is tightly focused on the optimal use of drug information for problem –
solving , decision – making and promoting safe pharmaceutical care.

5. Importance of IT in Pharmacy
01 Technology improves pharmatics work, it give them more time to help
customer by reducing time, expenditure and the manpower required for
any kind of work. The research will be long-lasting expensive without IT.
02 Technologies are useful for the Patient Profile monitoring, Drug
interactions, Drug design, medication, database management, material
management, Drug information services, patient counselling, billing and
purchasing.
03 IT can help run the business operation efficiently, They make it easier to
handle routine business tasks such as recording, tracking and paying the
vendor bills.
04 It Preventing medication Errors , Improve population health and
Interconnect clinicians.

6. 3D Printing

7. What is 3D Printing?
● Recently, epilepsy drug Spritam (pictured) became
the first 3D printed drug to be approved by the
FDA. The drug's manufacturer, Aprecia
Pharmaceuticals, says that it makes the oral
medication through a three-dimensional printing
process, which builds the pill by spreading layers of
the drug on top of one another until the right dose
is reached.
● This technique allows the pill to deliver a higher dose
of medicine – up to 1000 mg – while being porous
enough to dissolve quickly. These attributes can be
particularly beneficial for patients who have
difficulty swallowing their medication, which can
affect adherence to treatment regimens.

8. Spotlight on desktop • Researchers at the School of Pharmacy of University
College London have been developing a technique to 3D-
print pills in different shapes, from pyramids to
doughnuts, using a technique known as “hot melt
extrusion”. The different forms (which would be hard to
manufacture with standard production techniques)
release drugs at different rates – their research finding
that the rate of drug release is dependent not on surface
area, but on surface area to volume ratio. A pyramid-
shaped pill, for example, releases the drug slower than a
cube or sphere, allowing absorption to be controlled.
• This breakthrough clears the path for future 3D printed
drugs – an area that could change not only the way that
drugs are manufactured, but also administered. By
making slight adjustments to the software before
printing, hospitals could adjust doses for individual
patients, a process of personalisation that is otherwise
prohibitively expensive. It has even been suggested that
one day patients could print downloadable medication at
home.

11. Nanotechnology
● Nanotechnology is advancing rapidly and researchers are now developing nanotechnology that can track
when patients take their medication to encourage increased adherence. The particles, once consumed,
would send signals to demonstrate that the medication has been taken and the information would then be
fed back to a physician and to the patient through a mobile app.
● Medical researchers are also investigating the potential to use microscopic robots called nanobots, which
can be preprogrammed to perform tasks inside the human body. Nonobots consumed in the form of a pill or
injection could even seek out and destroy cancer cells or perform surgical tasks internally.
● Nanotechnology refers to microscopic
technology that is of the scale of between 1 to
100 nanometers (a sheet of newspaper is
about 100,000 nanometers thick). Due to
their microscopic size, nanoparticles can
easily travel around the human body in the
blood stream. Nanoparticles are usually
composed of biological-based nanomachines
or simple material nanostructures which have
already ben shown to assist in the delivery of
anti-cancer drugs and to reduce toxicity.

12. mHealth Sensor
• Pharma research institutes are already
beginning to take advantage of mHealth
technology to conduct clinical research.
Smartphones with powerful processors and
advanced sensors that can track movement,
take measurements and record information
are highly useful in post-market studies
and allow people to participate in studies
more easily . The more people who
contribute their data, the bigger the
numbers, the truer the representation of a
population, and the more powerful the
results, so an mHealth app has the potential
to engage unprecedented numbers of
individuals in large geographical areas.

13. ● Apple currently has several mHealth apps for clinical research on the iPhone, including
apps targeting Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma and breast cancer,
which have been developed by leading research institutes.
● mHealth sensors are not just confined to smartphones; wearable devices such as smartwatches (eg.
Apple Watch, Samsung Gear) and fitness bands (eg. FitBit, Jawbone, Garmin) contain accelerometers
and global positioning (GPS) and sensors capable of taking biometric readings.
● As these sensors become more advanced and accurate, there is huge potential for the use of
wearable devices for gathering clinical trial data remotely in real-time, real-world settings.

14. Thank you!