Open AccessExploiting IT: benefits for community pharmacy and consumers
Author(s) -
Inch J.,
Bond C. M.,
Grant A. M.,
Laing A. W.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of pharmacy practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 2042-7174
pISSN - 0961-7671
DOI - 10.1111/j.2042-7174.2002.tb00706.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pharmacy , community pharmacy , family medicine
Focal points Information technology (IT) is an underused resource within community pharmacy with huge potential to introduce new models of service delivery The pharmacy sector can learn from the experiences of banking and legal sectors Work presented here is part of a large systematic review exploring change and innovation in community pharmacy Main themes emerging from this systematic review are changing interaction with consumers and auto‐dispensing and information technology The majority of identified papers (to date) are discursive/opinion pieces, with little hard evidence