A Mixed Reality based Approach for Enhancing Drug Dispensing Process using Microsoft HoloLens

Abstract

Technology is considered as the key of modernity of any field of our life. Every department of pharmacy uses many types of modern technologies, starting from drug design to drug clinical studies to industrial pharmacy and through drug dispensing to medical records and so on. But what if we can go further, what if we can go beyond its normal usage, where technology introduces real solutions for our life, and mainly in pharmacy!

Mixed reality is considered one of the newest applied sciences in daily life that introduces many brilliant solutions for daily operations. Although this technology is quite old from many years, the lack of applied hardware for customers with quite cost made people and developers not use it wildly. In this research, we introduce an integrated approach for drug despising in pharmacy, built on the top of mixed reality, to make pharmacists reach the maximum usage of current drug and patient information to make drug despising process more proper to patient and pharmacists.

We introduce UI design for modular system and its prototype by using Microsoft mixed reality glasses HoloLens, conjugation with other technologies that try to introduce solutions for the problems that face the pharmacists in drug dispensing process. Starting from receiving prescription, and reviewing drug information, to providing patients with information they need. All these data are displayed in a good order for pharmacists, while they speak to patients. Our approach is evaluated mainly by making a survey with four pharmacists and obtain their opinion on our proposed system.