AI- Powered Prescription processing: From Entry to Dispensing

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing multiple industries, including healthcare and pharmacy. Its integration across prescription processing and clinical decision-making enhances accuracy, safety, and efficiency. This review explores the role and benefits of AI in pharmacy practice, with a focus on prescription processing, dispensing, ADR prediction, and EHR integration. A comprehensive literature review was conducted on the applications, benefits, and challenges of AI in pharmacy using peer-reviewed journals and clinical case examples. AI has demonstrated significant contributions in ADR detection, clinical decision support systems, CPOE, drug-drug interaction prediction, and dispensing automation. Improved patient safety, efficiency, and regulatory compliance are major outcomes.

Incorporating AI into pharmacy practice provides a transformative opportunity for better patient care. Pharmacy education and policies must adapt to facilitate its ethical and effective implementation. AI has made great strides in the healthcare industry, playing important roles in the management and storage of data and information, including patient medical histories, medication inventories, sale records, and so forth; automated equipment; software and computer applications, including diagnostic tools like CT and MRI radiation technology, and many more, have all been developed to support and streamline healthcare procedures. Healthcare has undoubtedly been transformed by AI to become more effective and efficient, and the pharmacy industry is not an exception. Drug development, dosage form design, polypharmacology, and hospital pharmacy are just a few of the significant pharmacy domains that have seen a significant increase in interest in the application of AI technology in recent years. Because AI is becoming more and more important, we decided to write a thorough report that would help all practicing pharmacists grasp the major advancements made possible by the use of this subject.