INFORMATIZATION OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY IN THE ASIAN AND AUSTRALIAN REGIONS
Improvement of the health care system is one of the main directions of the social sphere development in any country. Large-scale development of electronic services, introduction of medical electronic services, full automation of medicine and pharmacy actively promote to this. The history and current state of e-health service in some countries of the Asian and Australian regions have been analyzed in the article. The main strategies for informatization of health care institutions are given. The role of electronic systems occupying the main position in automation of medicine and pharmacy is estimated. It is established that e-health service is an integral part of the electronic economy. The resolution on e-Health, adopted in 2005 in Geneva, has been the main impetus to the world development of information systems in the field of medicine and pharmacy. The first country having introduced information technologies into the healthcare system is South Korea. The feature of healthcare automation in some countries of the Asian region is that medical and pharmaceutical information technologies are a single electronic system. The most common and significant automated information systems have been an electronic medical card and an electronic prescription which currently operate in all developed countries of the Asian and Australian regions.