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More than 1000 drugs in 0.1 second…Why did you develop the 'YakManager' app?
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2023-12-27 12:21
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"I thought that if advanced technology was used to recognize drugs rather than the eyes of pharmacists, pharmacy work would change more efficiently."
Recently, an increasing number of pharmacists are challenging new markets. In a world where it is difficult to do well, non-mainstream activities are also attracting attention through pharmacists and other challenges.
Pharmacist Cho Sung-hoon (policy director of the Namdong Branch of Incheon Branch), who marks his 10th year as a pharmaceutical company after graduating from a pharmacy, launched and developed the "Pharmaceutical Manager" app in March.
Within a month and a half of its launch, Drug Manager is an app with services such as drug counting, recognition and inventory, and return list, and the number of users exceeded 5,000. It quickly entered the market through word of mouth among pharmacists who said it contained only the necessary tasks at pharmacies.
The drug manager's strategy is to catch both convenience and efficiency.
In particular, using AI object recognition technology to quickly recognize the number of medicines within 0.1 second is one of the biggest advantages. In addition, it can accurately calculate a large number by installing automatic summation and calculator functions when taking multiple photos, and the accuracy is more than 99%.
The inconvenience in the inventory and return work process was also minimized. Inventory can be easily created through the app, and work efficiency can be increased as employees in pharmacies can write lists at the same time. The drug manager will also be equipped with a drug and fragrance management bookkeeping function in the future.
In addition, it is equipped with a drug license information search function to search for drug information, and through recent updates, drug information can be easily obtained by scanning drug barcodes.
App development began with simple curiosity. The idea of efficiently calling simple repetitive and inefficient tasks at pharmacies through the introduction of new technologies led him to become an app developer.
Pharmacist Cho explained, "I came to develop the service with the idea of using object recognition for drug recognition after hearing an article that object recognition among recent AI technologies has already exceeded the human eye in the problem of determining objects. We wanted to improve the process of making confirmation calls to pharmacies and searching inconveniently to check the types of drugs patients and guardians are taking."
He said, "The drug manager is quickly updating functions tailored to the needs of users. In particular, we are still working hard to capture the functions needed by pharmacies, such as quickly improving the photo storage function, the drug bar code search function, and fixing minor bug problems."
Pharmacist Cho established the JNJ Tech corporation in 2021 to develop and launch the app. As it is not a specialized field of IT technology, it has worked hard on developing the app through two years of contact with experts, and will be able to present the results equipped with the functions that pharmacists want.
Currently, it is steadily advancing technically, including 7 related patents and 3 trademark rights.
Pharmacist Cho is confident that pharmacists' work efficiency will be improved through the drug manager. Therefore, I hope that pharmacists will focus on more creative and productive work and fulfill their roles as drug experts.
"Pharmacists are experts in medicine. We dream that technological advancement does not replace the jobs of our pharmacists, but rather expands our pharmacists' work through advanced tools of technology," Cho said. "We hope that pharmacists' creative ideas will not be confined to their heads, but will actively spread them out."
"I thought that if advanced technology was used to recognize drugs rather than the eyes of pharmacists, pharmacy work would change more efficiently."
Recently, an increasing number of pharmacists are challenging new markets. In a world where it is difficult to do well, non-mainstream activities are also attracting attention through pharmacists and other challenges.
Pharmacist Cho Sung-hoon (policy director of the Namdong Branch of Incheon Branch), who marks his 10th year as a pharmaceutical company after graduating from a pharmacy, launched and developed the "Pharmaceutical Manager" app in March.
Within a month and a half of its launch, Drug Manager is an app with services such as drug counting, recognition and inventory, and return list, and the number of users exceeded 5,000. It quickly entered the market through word of mouth among pharmacists who said it contained only the necessary tasks at pharmacies.
The drug manager's strategy is to catch both convenience and efficiency.
In particular, using AI object recognition technology to quickly recognize the number of medicines within 0.1 second is one of the biggest advantages. In addition, it can accurately calculate a large number by installing automatic summation and calculator functions when taking multiple photos, and the accuracy is more than 99%.
The inconvenience in the inventory and return work process was also minimized. Inventory can be easily created through the app, and work efficiency can be increased as employees in pharmacies can write lists at the same time. The drug manager will also be equipped with a drug and fragrance management bookkeeping function in the future.
In addition, it is equipped with a drug license information search function to search for drug information, and through recent updates, drug information can be easily obtained by scanning drug barcodes.
App development began with simple curiosity. The idea of efficiently calling simple repetitive and inefficient tasks at pharmacies through the introduction of new technologies led him to become an app developer.
Pharmacist Cho explained, "I came to develop the service with the idea of using object recognition for drug recognition after hearing an article that object recognition among recent AI technologies has already exceeded the human eye in the problem of determining objects. We wanted to improve the process of making confirmation calls to pharmacies and searching inconveniently to check the types of drugs patients and guardians are taking."
He said, "The drug manager is quickly updating functions tailored to the needs of users. In particular, we are still working hard to capture the functions needed by pharmacies, such as quickly improving the photo storage function, the drug bar code search function, and fixing minor bug problems."
Pharmacist Cho established the JNJ Tech corporation in 2021 to develop and launch the app. As it is not a specialized field of IT technology, it has worked hard on developing the app through two years of contact with experts, and will be able to present the results equipped with the functions that pharmacists want.
Currently, it is steadily advancing technically, including 7 related patents and 3 trademark rights.
Pharmacist Cho is confident that pharmacists' work efficiency will be improved through the drug manager. Therefore, I hope that pharmacists will focus on more creative and productive work and fulfill their roles as drug experts.
"Pharmacists are experts in medicine. We dream that technological advancement does not replace the jobs of our pharmacists, but rather expands our pharmacists' work through advanced tools of technology," Cho said. "We hope that pharmacists' creative ideas will not be confined to their heads, but will actively spread them out."