LIMITED BUT EMERGING ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN PHARMACY

The pharmacist’s role in providing information on drugs and medicines is not incipient. When drugs were few in number and generally of relatively low vigor the number of inquiries was minute and could customarily be answered expeditiously by location to pharmacopoeias and formularies In recent years, the number of drugs and medicines has bigger extremely which are usually more potent and more selective and also the literature relating to drugs has prolonged at a staggering rate. The literature covers a riches of information on these more incipient drugs, their actions, clinical uses, unwanted effects, interactions with other drugs, comparative usefulness, etc. An expeditious reference to pharmacopeia and formularies is no longer adequate, in many cases, to provide an ample answer.