Pharmacy

Regionally, the services provided by hospital pharmacies include dispensing/distributing of drugs to patients. A hospital Pharmacy System enables the processing of prescriptions using one common formulary and multiple drug costs and formulas. Throughout the region, client demographic information will be received via an electronic interface from the regional CPI/Registration System. In the future this Pharmacy System will be able to transmit dispensing records using an electronic interface to other departmental systems; the regional Clinical View System; physician practice management systems and the provincial drug data repository.

The Pharmacy System was used by over 200 staff in 15 locations to more efficiently and quickly fill in excess of 650,000 prescriptions in 2006-07.