We will consider the possible use cases of a client is visiting the pharmacy with a prescription from a doctor.
Case 01 : Doctor has prescribed using generics
Ex. Azithromycin 500mg daily for 3 days
Azithromycin is a generic name. He is referring to a generic product. He is not concerned of a particular brand. In the pharmacy, there is no item called Azithromycin 500mg tablet. We may have Azilide 500mg tablet, Zithrox 500mg tablet, AZ 250mg tablet and so on. There prices, manufacturers, suppliers all differ significantly. So we can not sell something like Azithromycin 500mg 3 tablets. We have to select one item available and sell that particular product. But even for an experienced pharmacist may find it difficult to remember the suitable products. So we have developed a way to list all the possible Items available when we start typing the generic name in doctors prescription.
The details easily displayed along with the possible products include the Rate, Available Stocks and their Expiry Dates. The pharmacist has the option to to select any of the listed items and he can consider the available stocks and expiry dates to make a decision which is the exact item he is going to issue. The listed rate of items can be discussed with the client and he may prefer an item depending on financial constrains.
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| Usefulness of Typing first few letters of a Generic name |
Case 2 : Doctor prescribe from a Propitiatory Name and Item is there in the stock. Pharmacist issue the very same product.
It needs to write first few letters of that particular brand and if stocks are available, they will be listed with the details like stocks, generic name, rate and expiry. All are listed as batches and helps the precise stock control (and we will be discussing on how well stocks are traces in another day.) The pharmacist can select the medicines with few key strokes or mouse movements and add the quantity and and add to the total bill.
Ex. Azilide 250mg tablet once a day for 3 days.
Case 3 : Doctor prescribe from a Propitiatory Name and Item Is out of stock.
Doctor has prescribed Zithrox 500mg tablet once a day for 3 days.
The Pharmacist types the word Zithrox, and notice that Zithrox 500mg is among the items that are out of stock.
But no worries for the pharmacist, she can click on Zithrox 500mg tablet label to get a complete set of available substitutes, if that can be considered on her setup.
When the pharmacist and the client agrees on one substitute, after considering the stocks available, expiry dates and rates, the pharmacist clicks on the selected item so that it will be billed.
Case 4: Doctor prescribes from a Proprietary Name, there are stocks, yet the client can not afford.
Doctor has prescribed Azilide 500mg tablet once daily for 3 days. The Pharmacist can easily select it as stocks are available. But the price is very high and patient may request substitute, and by that time, the user can see a list of other medicines with there details including the price, so that user can request another substitute.
Here user has selected Azilide 500mg tablet, and the replaceable medicines are listed below. Clicking one of the newly medicines will bring it as the billing item.
The above four use cases can be easily handled using this software. It is possible because of the complicated and detailed designing of the system which needs deep understanding of medical and software engineering domain. The complexity in the underlining design has make it possible for the front end to be feature rich, simple and fast.
Most of the other pharmacy software are mere extension of a normal inventory software. We have designed this specially for pharmacy software.But there may be exceptions. If any one can comment of any other software which also has all these features in one screen, I will remove the "Probably the best" part from the topic and will also edit the article in include the details of that software stating this also have similar or better feature.
This is only one point which makes our software superior to our competitors and we will describe one by one in other articles.
