Title: Use manual or computer-based information systems to perform job-related activities.
Course: Pharmacy Technician II (14152-II) > Section: Participating in the Administration and Management of Pharmacy Practice

Use should include

- generating reports and labels
- tracking drug use for inventory purposes
- maintaining patient profiles
- maintaining medication administration records
- identifying drug-to-drug interactions
- recording other drug-use methods.

See ASHP 3.13.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What reports and labels could a pharmacy technician need to generate?
- What messages could a computer generate during the prescription-fill process?
- What formerly manual pharmacy tasks are now generally computerized? What are the pros and cons of manual and computerized processes?
- What records must be kept in most pharmacy settings? Why is each important?
- How could computer-based information systems vary from one pharmacy setting to another?
- How could a computer-based information system assist in quality improvement?
- What could the results be if information is entered incorrectly into a pharmacy information system?
- How could a pharmacy technician keep current with the latest innovations in pharmacy information systems?