Syllabus
Unit I (06 Hours)
Number system: Binary number system, Decimal number system, Octal number system, Hexadecimal number systems, conversion decimal to binary, binary to decimal, octal to binary etc, binary addition, binary subtraction – One’s complement ,Two’s complement method, binary multiplication, binary division
Concept of Information Systems and Software: Information gathering, requirement and feasibility analysis, data flow diagrams, process specifications, input/output design, process life cycle, planning and managing the project
Unit II (06 Hours)
Web technologies: Introduction to HTML, XML,CSS and Programming languages, introduction to web servers and Server Products Introduction to databases, MYSQL, MS ACCESS, Pharmacy Drug database
Unit III (06 Hours)
Application of computers in Pharmacy: Drug information storage and retrieval, Pharmacokinetics, Mathematical model in Drug design, Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy, Electronic Prescribing and dis- charge (EP) systems, barcode medicine identification and automated dispensing of drugs, mobile tech- nology and adherence monitoring Diagnostic System, Lab-diagnostic System, Patient Monitoring System, Pharma Information System
Unit IV (06 Hours)
Bioinformatics: Introduction, Objective of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Databases, Concept of Bioin- formatics, Impact of Bioinformatics in Vaccine Discovery
Unit V (06 Hours)
Computers as data analysis in Preclinical development: Chromatographic dada analysis (CDS), Laboratory Information management System (LIMS) and Text Information Management System(TIMS)
summary
‘Computer Applications in Pharmacy – Theory’ is a course offered in the second semester of B. Pharm program at School of Pharmacy, Health Sciences campus, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
