Directions of development of functional missions of computer pharmaceutical knowledge bases talking into account various types of crisis situations

The computer pharmaceutical knowledge bases are effective tools of information support for the organization provision of medicines, pharmaceutical care and education of pharmaceutical specialists. The purpose of the work іs to substantiate the urgency of developing the computer pharmaceutical knowledge base «Pharmaceutical care for patients with diabetes» with increasing the number of the functional tasks of the information blocks of medicine provision management pharmaceutical care to patients with diabetes mellitus, didactic support of educational system of pharmacists in the conditions of various types of crisis situations. The objects of the study were the components of the information system about medicinal products, informational materials on the problems of pharmaceutical care for patients with diabetes mellitus during the period of the COVID-19 epidemic and the period of martial law. The methods of studying the need for information about medicines, pharmaceutical diagnostics, construction of information arrays of computer pharmaceutical knowledge bases were used. The following areas of expansion of the information arrays of blocks are substantiated: «Medicines» – inclusion of materials on new and classic drugs for the treatment of COVID-19; changes in the arsenal of antidiabetic drugs due to martial law; «Management of pharmaceutical care» – inclusion of systematized scientific data on the problem of specialization of information provision; «Reforming the health care system (pharmaceutical subsystem)» – adding information materials to optimize the management of the supply of antidiabetic drugs in view of the systematized measures overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, epidemics of other genesis, anti-crisis measures in the health care system during the period of martial law; «Education of pharmaceutical specialists (postgraduate stage)» – filling with materials of provision of medicines and pharmaceutical care for patients with COVID-19 also have diabetes mellitus and during martial law. The structure of the computerized pharmaceutical knowledge base «Pharmaceutical care for patients with diabetes» was substantiated and the directions of its development were worked out in view of the expansion of functional tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic and martial law.