Pharmacy Workflow Optimization: Strategies for Enhancing Efficiency and Patient Satisfaction
A special issue of Pharmacy (ISSN 2226-4787). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacy Practice and Practice-Based Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 506
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As technology has advanced and the role of pharmacists in the healthcare system has evolved, the working environment of pharmacists has changed drastically in the past decade. The introduction of automation into pharmacy systems has reduced the manual workloads of pharmacists, allowing them to focus more on providing cognitive services. Recently, artificial intelligence has further enhanced pharmacists’ ability to offer holistic care by integrating healthcare information to deliver tailored pharmaceutical care that accounts for unique patient characteristics. These innovations have improved pharmacy workflows, promoting efficient services and better patient outcomes.
This Special Issue focuses on optimizing pharmacy workflows to advance practice and patient outcomes. It includes strategies to enhance the efficiency of pharmaceutical care and interventions to improve patient health outcomes. We invite papers providing intervention developments, reviews, case studies, analytical papers, and assessments from various disciplines relevant to contemporary pharmaceutical care. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Applying technology for achieving better patient health outcomes;
- Developing measurements to assess healthcare quality;
- Exploring predictors of improved pharmacy practice;
- Identifying gaps in pharmacy care to inform refined services;
- Proposing strategies for efficient pharmacy workflows;
- Testing new or refined pharmacy practice models;
- Translating theories into pharmacy practice.
Dr. Yen-Ming Huang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- automation
- efficiency
- human factors
- healthcare systems
- optimization
- patient outcome
- pharmacy workflow
- technology
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