UNAIR NEWS聽鈥 Drugs play an essential role in the healthcare system.聽Drugs are one of the most significant components in the cost of health services.聽东京热 students offer drug inventory management solutions.
Based on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, the average expenditure per capita of the population in Indonesia reaches 12.79 percent of the total cost of spending on healthcare services. This figure continues to rise from year to year.
The importance of drugs can also be seen from the fact that inappropriate use of drugs has a fatal impact on patients. Inappropriate drug administration can result in patient mortality.
Improving the quality of healthcare services, especially in drug inventory room, is essential to ensure adequate drug availability and quality. It becomes one of the factors that determine the success of patient treatment.
This problem inspired five students majoring in Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Technology and Multidiscipline, 东京热 (FTMM UNAIR), in their scientific article entitled 鈥淥ptimizing Drug Inventory Room Control in Health Units鈥. The five students are Miftachul Jannah, Ulfariyah, Novelia Agata, Fajar Januar Aulia, and Danang Sakti Wicaksono.
Suggesting Pharmacy Computerized Inventory Program聽
A group representative, Mifta, told聽UNAIR NEWS聽on Monday, April 24, 2023, that their group offered alternative solutions for drug inventory management by using the聽Pharmacy Computerized Inventory Program聽(PCIP) to recap all phases of the drug use process.
鈥淭he PCIP program is a simple web-based program to record all phases of the drug use process, including order, requests, distribution, and inventory.聽What is stored in inventory and the graph of drug use in聽real-time鈥 explained Mifta.
In addition, she continued, PCIP can support a pharmaceutical service standard inventory system per the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number 35 of 2014. It includes drug inventory using the First In First Out聽(FIFO) or聽First Expired First Out聽(FEFO ) system, storage according to dosage forms, alphabetical storage, and separate storage of narcotics and psychotropics in a special cupboards.
Workstation use as alternative聽
Mifta and her group also researched other methods to optimize drug inventory room control using a workstation called聽ScanStation.聽ScanStation,聽explained Mifta, is聽a system specially designed for scanning documents or images with more advanced features and capabilities than聽ordinary聽scanners.
鈥淭his method can be a special device to support computer usage. At the same time, improving drug inventory management in terms of the accuracy of records,鈥 she said.
Mifta said there are still several other methods to improve healthcare services.聽Particularly in drug availability, for example, the mathematical programming model (DR20) and聽Model Predictive Control (MPC).聽These methods can improve overall healthcare service by improving customer satisfaction with the healthcare system.聽So that later all the needs or聽demands聽for drugs will always be fulfilled.
鈥淚t is important in the future to implement system optimization based on a good mathematical model so that later it can provide a real picture of the existing system to improve the quality of health services and drug supply management,鈥 said Mifta. (*)
Author: Dewi Yugi Arti/Miftachul, Ulfariyah, Novelia, Fajar, Danang聽
Editor : Feri Fenoria聽
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