Review Article
Year: 2023 | Month: April-June | Volume: 8 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 166-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20230220
Pharma Software – A Complete Overview
Raktimava Das Sarkar
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Bengal School of Technology (A College of Pharmacy), Sugandha, Chinsurah, Hooghly, West Bengal – 712102, India
ABSTRACT
With the recent advancements in Pharmaceutical Industry, there comes an increased complexity in data and products. In a Pharmaceutical Industry, various aspects are considered simultaneously. So, nowadays various advanced softwares are used to handle these parameters. A Software is a set of programs that tells a computer what tasks it should perform. It consists of a series of code written by a programming language, which is then interpreted by a computer. This process is known as compilation. Thus, it makes our work easier by maintaining all the records and performing necessary calculation and much more. In a pharmaceutical industry variety of software are used as the tasks that needs to be performed are also of various types. For example, Record keeping of a Batch of Tablet in a manufacturing section, Quality Control Test Results, Regulatory Management, Marketing And Sales Data Handling, Clinical Trial Data Management, etc. Sometimes, a single software is used and sometimes a combination of two or more are used. There are roughly 19 types of software used in the whole Pharmaceutical Industry, and among them various companies have their wide range of products. Currently, after the implementation of GMP, GLP and GCP, the use of the software has marginally increased.
Keywords: Pharmaceutical, Software, Industry, Recent software, Pharma- Industry