Use Case 04 · Healthcare

Medicines Management & Pharmacy Support

Clinical pharmacists manually review 1,500–3,000 prescription items daily, cross-referencing drug interactions, allergies, and formulary compliance across disconnected systems — a volume that exceeds human capacity and creates patient safety risk.

The Challenge

Why This Happens

Prescription volume exceeds human capacity at every busy trust. Drug data lives in disparate systems — JAC, clinical systems, EPR — with no unified interface, making cross-referencing manual and error-prone. Formulary guidelines are held in static PDFs on shared drives, meaning pharmacists must navigate multiple sources to complete a single safety check.

How Copilot & M365 Address This
  1. 1 Pre-screening against formulary knowledge baseCopilot pre-screens prescriptions against the SharePoint formulary knowledge base automatically
  2. 2 Drug interaction warnings surfaced with citationsSurfaces relevant drug interaction warnings and contraindication alerts with source citations
  3. 3 Pharmacist intervention notes draftedDrafts structured pharmacist intervention notes from the clinician's structured inputs
  4. 4 Complex cases routed via Teams ApprovalsRoutes complex cases to a senior pharmacist via Teams Approvals for expedited review

Impact & Results

Impact Metrics
52% Reduction in prescription review time per pharmacist
0 Missed contraindications in 6-month pilot period
3x More clinical interventions documented per shift
Measured via: Pre/post time-motion studies by pharmacy leads, cross-referenced against JAC medication system logs and clinical intervention documentation rates.

We went from firefighting to actually practising pharmacy. Copilot handles the first-pass review — we focus on the complex cases. In six months our clinical intervention rate tripled because we finally have time to look up from the screen.

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Dr. Fatima Al-Kuwari
Chief Pharmacist, Medical Corporation, Doha

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