Real-time stock per branch
On-hand, reserved, available — recalculated on every movement. The same drug can sit at five branches with five different counts; the operations team sees them all at once.
Pharmacy
The pharmacy module other vendors charge extra for.
Most hospital systems treat pharmacy as a prescription printer. CareHubOS treats it as the operational nerve centre it actually is — inventory, dispensing, safety, transfers, controlled substances — all native, all branch-aware.
Inventory you can trust
Lot-level tracking with expiry alerts
Every receipt creates a lot row with batch number, expiry date, and cost basis. 30-day and 7-day expiry buckets surface on the pharmacy dashboard — no surprises.
FEFO dispensing
First-Expiry-First-Out is the default suggestion at the dispense screen. The pharmacist sees the lot the system recommends and can override with a reason.
Wastage, returns, purchase requests
Wasted units recorded against a lot. Returns from patients tracked back to the original dispense. Purchase requests follow an approval chain before procurement.
Dispensing for every channel
OPD prescription queue
Outpatient prescriptions arrive in the queue automatically from the consulting room. Pharmacist verifies, dispenses, prints label. Patient walks out with their meds, billing's already done.
Ward request queue
Nurses request medications for inpatients through the ward request flow. Pharmacy fulfils against the patient record and the ward stock pool.
Discharge medication queue
Discharge prescriptions get their own queue, separate from OPD, so a busy outpatient pharmacy doesn't slow down a patient going home.
Counter sales
Over-the-counter and walk-in dispensing — still goes through inventory, still audit-logged, doesn't require a full prescription flow.
OPD Dispensing Queue
4 waiting| Rx | Patient | Channel | Priority | Items | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RX00412 | Kwame Mensah | OPD | Routine | 3 | Dispense |
| RX00415 | Ama Owusu | OPD | Urgent | 1 | Verify |
| RX00418 | Yaa Asantewaa | Discharge | Routine | 5 | Ready |
| RX00421 | Kojo Antwi | Ward | Routine | 2 | Verify |
Dispense — Mr. K. Asante
RX00142 · OPD · Accra HQ
Allergy: Penicillin (severe)
Patient flagged 2024-09-14 — anaphylaxis. Override requires reason.
Interaction: Warfarin × Aspirin (high)
Increased bleeding risk. Override permitted with reason.
Formulary: Restricted (Tier 2)
Requires consultant sign-off. Override with reason.
Suggested lot (FEFO):
MLT00041 · Batch B-2025-04 · exp 2026-03-31 · 412 units on-hand
Safety, before the medication leaves the counter
Allergy check
Cross-referenced against the patient's allergy list before the medication leaves the counter. High-severity blocks; lower-severity warns.
Drug-drug interaction check
Severity-graded: low → moderate → high → contraindicated. High and above block by default; the pharmacist can override with a reason which is audit-logged.
Formulary check
Restricted drugs gated by formulary status. Override requires reason and is audit-logged.
Controlled substance workflow
Narcotic authorisation tied to physician credentials; shift counts and break-the-glass dispensing recorded with witness and reason.
What 'pharmacy is first-class' actually means
| Capability | Typical EHR add-on | CareHubOS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lot-level tracking | Extra licence | Included | |
| FEFO suggestion at dispense | Not included | Included | |
| Drug-interaction check inline | Pop-up plugin | Included | |
| Cross-branch transfers | Not included | 9-state workflow | |
| Narcotic authorisation flow | Not included | Included | |
| Branch-aware reordering | Not included | Included | |
| Expiry alerts (7d/30d) | Manual report | Included |