Kumamoto University Faculty of Pharmacy and Sojo University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences have utilized an ``online medication guidance system'' and ``online medication follow-up system'' with the aim of developing the professional skills of pharmacists who can respond to local issues and developing medical human resources while making full use of digital technology. Carry out initiatives for pharmaceutical education. Both universities have been selected for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's ``Support Project for Advanced Pharmaceutical Education that Meets Local Medical Needs''.
In recent years, against the backdrop of the declining birthrate and accelerating aging of the population, there is a need in pharmaceutical education to develop human resources who can respond to regional needs such as medical care in remote areas and disaster medical care. Kumamoto Prefecture is an area where there is a shortage of pharmacists, and according to data reported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in 2020, there are five towns and villages in Kumamoto Prefecture that do not have pharmacies, making it difficult for some local residents to access medical institutions. It has become. In addition to natural disasters such as the Kumamoto Earthquake in April 5 and the Kumamoto Heavy Rains in June of the same year, the area is also prone to active volcanic activity on Mt. Aso, which poses challenges for the medical system in the event of a major disaster.
Therefore, Kumamoto University and Sojo University aimed to develop the professional skills of pharmacists and develop medical human resources who can respond to regional issues by making full use of digital technology, and utilized an ``online medication guidance system'' and ``online medication follow-up system''. Carry out initiatives for pharmaceutical education. Specifically, we will promote medical DX by utilizing the pharmacy experience assistant "Musubi", the medicine contact book "Pocket Musubi", and the pharmacy business visualization tool "Musubi Insight" provided by Kakehashi Co., Ltd.
The pharmacy experience assistant ``Musubi'' allows pharmacists at pharmacies to provide medication guidance while viewing the Musubi tablet with the patient, and automatically creates a draft medication history by touching the screen on the spot. It also provides advice tailored to the patient's health condition and lifestyle habits. Unlike traditional electronic drug records, it can improve the efficiency of drug history operations and improve the value provided to patients. Medicine contact book "Pocket Musubi" A patient follow-up system that connects pharmacies and patients via LINE. There is a function that screens patients who should be followed up based on their medication status, allowing pharmacists to take appropriate actions without any burden, and a function that allows patients to send an image of their prescription before coming to the pharmacy to reduce waiting time at the pharmacy. The pharmacy operations visualization tool "Musubi Insight" is a pharmacy operations "visualization" cloud service that uses Musubi data to visualize important indicators for pharmacy management and realize evidence-based pharmacy operations. Visualize pharmacy operations, from data that represents the pharmacist's work status such as medication history completion rate, to store management data such as sales, and data that represents the relationship with patients such as the number of prescriptions, repeat visit rate, and new patient rate. Streamline the discovery and understanding of issues that need to be resolved and support appropriate pharmacy management.
Promoting medical DX in pharmaceutical education is expected to foster medical personnel who can respond to regional needs such as remote medical care and disaster medical care.
