Abstract
Pharmacists provide various inpatient pharmaceutical services in the wards. Ideally, the number of pharmaceutical care services will increase; however, no system for supporting pharmaceutical care services has been implemented at Fukuoka Memorial Hospital, with the exception of terminals in the pharmaceutical sector. Therefore, there are limitations with respect to the location of records and business efficiency. Hence, we developed a pharmaceutical care recording support system to be used in the wards. This system maintains a temporary file server of hospital network data in the wards that pharmacists can use to enter pharmaceutical care records on forms created on a spreadsheet software program available in the market. Subsequently, the data are edited by the pharmaceutical sector. After implementing this system, the time required to create a pharmaceutical care record was significantly decreased and the number of pharmaceutical care services and time spent in the wards were significantly increased. Based on these results, we believe that this system is useful from the perspective of the inpatient pharmaceutical services provided by pharmacists. In addition, this system is applicable in other facilities because it was constructed using a commercially available software program.
