ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS IN PHARMACY PRACTICE ACROSS ASIA AND AUSTRALIA: A SCOPING REVIEW

This scoping review aims to map the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in pharmacy practice across the Asia-Pacific region, including all Asian countries and Australia. The review focuses on identifying how AI technologies have been applied in real-world pharmacy practice settings, such as clinical pharmacy services, medication safety, drug supply management, workflow optimization, and quality improvement activities. The review will be conducted using established scoping review methodologies and reported in accordance with the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. A comprehensive literature search will be performed in PubMed and Scopus to identify relevant studies published between January 2020 and the final search in 2026. Eligible studies will include original research articles or case studies reporting the development, implementation, or use of AI-based technologies in pharmacy practice settings in the Asia-Pacific region. Data will be extracted and synthesized descriptively to summarize AI technologies, practice settings, purposes of implementation, and reported impacts, with the aim of identifying evidence gaps and informing future research and policy development.