ETHICS AND THE COMPUTERIZATION OF PHARMACY Robert L. McCarthy (R.Ph., MS), Judith A. Perrolle2 (Ph.D.) 1) Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts 2) Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts ABSTRACT The rapid computerization of pharmacy has raised a number of potential new ethical dilemmas. Will the relationships between patient and pharmacist and between physician and pharmacist be altered by computerization? Will the use of computers to fill prescriptions affect confidentiality? Will the existence of these databases encourage unauthorized access of patient records? Will the monitoring of drug therapy by pharmacies and pharmacists be increased? Will artificial intelligence be involved in decisionmaking regarding drug therapy? Finally, what new legal and ethical conflicts will arise? The authors use scenarios to explore the attitudes of pharmacists and pharmacy students towards these emerging ethical issues in pharmacy practice. The results of the study will be used to create an instrument to measure sensitivity to ethical issues arising from the computerization of pharmacy and to make recommendations for improving the teaching of pharmacy ethics in the computer age. INTRODUCTION The use of computers in pharmacy has expanded rapidly over the last ten years. They have changed both institutional and community
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Ethics and the computerization of pharmacy
McCarthy, Robert L.; Perrolle, Judith A.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1990
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