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On the lines of the Vigiflow software technology introduced by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission for reporting adverse drug reactions (ADR), the Pharm D interns and faculties at the Al Shifa College of Pharmacy in Malappuram district in Kerala, with the help of software engineers, have designed and developed a new software for monitoring and reporting adverse events from patients.
The software, which is already in application at the hospital attached to the college, is known as Futura AERS (Adverse Event Reporting System), created to support the efforts of the Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) which may find a solution to the present challenges and difficulties in detecting and reporting adverse reactions of drugs in humans. The cost-effective and minimal infrastructure requiring product can be made useful by all healthcare professionals even in rural villages.
This software can be used by healthcare professionals for reporting and retrieving an adverse drug reaction using their unique username and password. The difficulties of paper based systems and manual documentations in hospitals are avoided through this software. The software helps for storing proper database of all adverse events and they can be maintained, retrieved and communicated among healthcare professionals as and when needed.Better coordination among healthcare professionals in ADR reporting and its management is another benefit of this product. Once an ADR is reported on a drug in a particular patient, it remains in the database and can be reviewed upon the next admission of the patient.
India can become a role model to other developing countries with the introduction of this innovative software for inclusion into the pharmacovigilance programme of the country. This can help advance pharmacovigilance practices and thereby to promote patient safety and better therapeutic outcome.
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Deepak Kumar Bandari,
Pharm.D Intern,
Vaagdevi College of Pharmacy - India
Elsevier Student Ambassador - South Asia
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