Artificial intelligence is coming, and there are new opportunities for practicing pharmacists

On October 28th, a higher training course for practicing pharmacists in Shandong Province was opened. At the opening ceremony, the author exchanged views with the participants on the topic of "The Future of Practicing Pharmacists". Among them, it involves the development of artificial intelligence and practicing pharmacists, which arouses heated discussion among practicing pharmacists present. As an extension of the course, this paper analyzes in depth the relationship between artificial intelligence and the substitution and assistance of practicing pharmacists.
since the State Council issued the Next Generation Ai AI Development Plan in July and the arrival of unmanned supermarkets and restaurants, the industry has been worried about whether artificial intelligence will replace licensed pharmacists. That worry is not superfluous, as the State Department's strategic layout will allow a new generation of artificial intelligence to be widely used in smart medicine by 2025. Practicing pharmacists are a key part of intelligent medical and group intelligent health management and are bound to be influenced by artificial intelligence. But don't worry too much about losing your job, because the State Council's Next Generation AI Development Plan already takes into account the impact of AI on the employment structure and calls for "safe, reliable and controlled development" of AI.mechanical labor is the most
many practicing pharmacists worry about the arrival of artificial intelligence, is the day of their own lay-off. So which jobs are most likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence?
, mechanical labor such as prescription review and provisioning is easily replaced. Artificial intelligence brings together big data and intelligent decision-making that has outpaced licensed pharmacists in terms of efficiency and precision in prescription review and provisioning. "In 2011, San Francisco opened a pharmacy with robots acting as pharmacists, " wrote Yuval Hlaly in A Brief History of the Future. Once the customer is on the door, the robot can receive all the customer's prescriptions, details of the medication taken, and which medications the customer may be allergic to in seconds. The robot will confirm that the new prescription will not cause allergies or adverse reactions to other drugs before it will be prescribed to customers. In its first year of business, robotic pharmacists issued more than 2 million prescriptions without a single mistake. On average, human pharmacists make up about 1.7 percent of all prescriptions. That means more than 50 million prescriptions go misalonced each year in the United States alone. "
, jobs with strong interests like sales are easily replaced." According to the logic of the current reform of the medical and health system, public hospitals and government-run primary health care institutions in the future to achieve the "total elimination of drug-based supplements", this aspect will increase the sale of prescription drugs in social pharmacies, on the other hand, will make the Government consider how to suppress the social pharmacy sales motivation. Artificial intelligence helps reduce people's self-interest and could lead to unsuper sale of drugs in the future. In addition, artificial intelligence integrates patient health and drug use information, more likely than licensed pharmacists to find out the patient's drug preferences, conducive to precision marketing and accurate and rational drug use.Do the "human touch" service helper
artificial intelligence will practice pharmacists from mechanical prescription review deployment, sales positions liberated, if the practicing pharmacists in a timely manner career transformation, you can occupy a place in the future of intelligent medicine, otherwise it will face elimination. So which jobs do humans have more advantages, and artificial intelligence can only help?
, humane health counseling is irreplaceable. Here the author does not use pharmacy services, but with health consulting services, because patients to the social pharmacy to buy health, medicine and pharmaceutical services are tools, practicing pharmacists must enlarge their horizons to health counseling, in order to better find their own foothold. In addition, artificial intelligence is not human after all, which is its biggest disadvantage. If a practicing pharmacist does not want to be replaced, he must provide more humane health counseling to patients.
, the role of the elderly home health management practicing pharmacists is irreplaceable. China will face the severe challenges of an aging society in the future, with the elderly unable to move and home health care becoming the norm. While older people love human services, artificial intelligence is hard to trust. In this case, practicing pharmacists can use artificial intelligence as a tool for home follow-up, monitoring and managing health information for the elderly, and create their own irreplaceable value.
, creative labor is irreplaceable. Future practicing pharmacists may not just solve patients' drug problems in pieces, but design solutions for patients' health problems through group intelligent health management, not just medical issues, but also fitness, diet, living and a range of other issues. That is, a practicing pharmacist will become an expert in creative problem solving, rather than a general staff member who passively sells or directs reasonable medication to patients.conclusion<<<
from the development trend of artificial intelligence, the relationship between practicing pharmacists and artificial intelligence is likely to be a collaborative relationship, rather than a substitute relationship. Practicing pharmacists will be scientists who creatively address patient health issues, while artificial intelligence will provide the evidence needed to solve them. But the reality for practicing pharmacists is that artificial intelligence has arrived in a situation where competence and quality are not high. Therefore, practicing pharmacists should recognize the situation, and it is imperative to take the time to upgrade the knowledge and skills needed for intelligent health management of the creative groups in the future. (Medical Economics)