医院及药店的药品管理系统近年来，以计算机科学技术为核心的信息技术正深刻地改变着人们的工作方式、生活方式和思维方式，所以人们越来越看重管理信息系统的投入和应用。
管理信息系统(management information system,MIS)是一个由人、计算机等组成的能进行信息收集、传递、储存、加工、维持和使用的系统。管理信息系统能实测企业的各种运行情况；利用过去的数据预测未来；从企业全局出发辅助企业进行决策；利用信息控制企业的行为；帮助企业实现其规划目标。(In recent years, the drug management system of hospitals and drugstores has changed people's way of work, life style and thinking mode deeply with the core of computer science and technology. So people pay more and more attention to the input and application of the management information system.

Management information system (MIS) is a system that is composed of people and computers to collect, transfer, store, process, maintain and use information. The management information system can measure the operating conditions of the enterprise; use the past data to predict the future; assist the enterprise to make decision from the overall situation of the enterprise; use the information to control the behavior of the enterprise; help the enterprise realize its planning goal.)