2000 Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 221-229
The home page for drug information (URL: http//www.pharmasys.gr.jp) offered by OPSR (The Organization for Pharmaceutical Safety and Research) that became available on May 31, 1999 provides not only the text of package insert accompanying drugs but also examples of cases of adverse incidents. This new development means that drug information is no longer only made available to the medical professions. Public disclosure of drug information suggests the current needs of pharmacists not only to provide “simple and readily understandable information” but also to provide “sufficient information” from the point of risk management against medico legal disputes. For the purpose of providing enough information such as efficacy and effectiveness, precautions and guidance for proper use, contradictions, symptoms at the early stage of adverse reactions, a larger printing space and a faster printing speed than that of conventional printer system are required. And in case of printing drug information on the paper separated from the medicine package, the operational work load of putting this printed paper into the medicine package may interfere with efficiency of dispensary practice. Under these circumstances we explored the possibility of adding a function of providing drug information on a medicine package. The system that we have developed provides both the medicine package information such as patient name, dosage and the drug information such as efficacy and effectiveness, adverse reactions in a medicine package form through the way of putting this printed paper into the one-sided transparent package. This system is considered to realize a more efficient drug information providing operation without altering the existing dispensary process.
