Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast

144. Where Are The Facts? Steps in Fact-Finding Intended Audience: Everyone Today's episode goes over the often overlooked step of fact-finding. Fact-finding just means finding facts, and it's important to fact-find operations and workflows before moving forward with implementing a new project or system. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: ht...

143. ASHP Recap + Last Week in Health IT On today's episode, I briefly recap my experience at ASHP as well as discuss some select news releases from Health IT companies during the ASHP week. Check out the Autonomous Pharmacy Framework at www.autonomouspharmacy.com Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pharmacyit...

Throwback: Core Clinical Systems feat. Dr. Maritza Lew Today's episode is a throwback to the time I had the opportunity to interview. Dr. Maritza Lew about her role and journey into pharmacy informatics. I'm currently at ASHP Midyear and wasn't able to edit any of the newer episodes, but I was inspired to release this throwback episode because I reconnected with Dr. Lew at MCM this year. Connect w...

Announcement: Pharmacy Informatics Academy Host Tony Dao, PharmD, CPHIMS is joining forces with Beju Shah, PharmD, MBA of Daily Dispense, David Vu, PharmD, CPHIMS the Full Stack Pharmacist, and Brian K. Fung of the ImproRx YouTube Channel to create the Pharmacy Informatics Academy! This podcast is only one of many sources of information for pharmacy informatics out there, and the goal with the Pha...

141. Clinical to Admin to Technology and Innovation feat. Dr. David Berkowitz Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we speak with current Omnicell Performance Center Field Consultant, Dr. David Berkowitz, on his incredible journey going from clinical pharmacy to pharmacy administration and eventually to his roles recently in technology and innovation. In addition, he shares an amazing en...

Throwback: Clinical Oncology IT Consulting feat. Dr. Kelley Carlstrom Intended Audience: Everyone Today's episode is a throwback/rebroadcast of Dr. Kelley Carlstrom's interview about clinical oncology information technology consulting. Check out her website at https://www.kelleycpharmd.com/ and sign up for her newsletter for more information on oncology pharmacy consulting and general inspiration...

140. Gnarly, Dude! Virtual Reality in Pharmacy! Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics On today's episode, we talk about how virtual reality has advanced in healthcare applications, specifically in how it can be used with pharmacologic treatments! More info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487969/ Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinf...

Happy Thanksgiving! Wishing everyone a safe and fun Thanksgiving Holiday with your loved ones! Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pharmacyitme/ Website: Pharmacy IT & Me Email: tony@pharmacyitme.com Follow Tony's personal Twitter account at @tonydaopharmd Network with other pharmacists at Pharmacists...

139. Smart Pumps, Education, and Informatics feat. Dr. Julie Pawola Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we speak with special guest, Dr. Julie Pawola, on her role in pharmacy informatics and technology. She shares some of her daily job duties as well as her upcoming smart pump bolus project. In addition, she discusses her involvement in pharmacy and informatics education. To reach out...

138. Let's Briefly Go Over MIS and STS Approaches Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Today, we briefly compare a Management Information Systems (MIS) approach versus a Sociotechnical Systems (STS) approach. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pharmacyitme/ Website: Pharmacy IT & Me Em...

137. Last Week in Health IT for November 22nd, 2019 Intended Audience: Everyone Welcome to another episode of Last Week in Health IT where we talk about some of the significant Health IT-related news items that occurred in the past week. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pharmacyitme/ Website: Pharmacy IT &a...

136. From Pharmacy Admin to CEO of DocStation feat. Dr. Samm Anderegg Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we interview Dr. Samm Anderegg about his unique journey to where he is today. Dr. Anderegg started off with doing a residency in pharmacy administration before working in a pharmacy administration role. He also participated in the Pharmacy HIT collaborative before embarking on his...

135. Supply Chain and the HIMSS Analytics CISOM Model Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Today's episode is all about HIMSS Analytics' new model for clinical supply chain, the CISOM. This model talks about how to clinically integrate supply chain into organizations in an eight stage model. More info about CISOM found at https://www.himssanalytics.org/clinically-integrated-supply-...

Throwback: Clinical Director and Data Analytics feat. Dr. Luke Slindee **Intended Audience: Everyone ** In case you missed it, Dr. Luke Slindee was interviewed back in January, 2019 regarding his role as a pharmacist with the title of clinical director and with the responsibilities of massive data analytics for a major pharmacy services and care group. You can reach Dr. Slindee on his LinkedIn pag...

134. Epic Pharmacy and Oncology Consulting feat. Dr. William Burger Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, Dr. William Burger introduces us to the world of Epic consulting through Willow and Beacon. He talks about his pathway to getting into pharmacy consulting as well as providing some advice on how it works and what pharmacists or students can do to get more informatics experience. He a...

133. EMR Adoption Model, Part 2 Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Today we talk about HIMSS Analytics' EMRAM, aka EMR Adoption Model. This is an 8 stage model that measures the adoption of EMR in a health institution. Today's episode will review stage 5, 6, and 7. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com...

Throwback: Clinical Analytics Manager feat. Dr. Corey Edwards **Intended Audience: Everyone ** In case you missed it the first time, today is a throwback episode! Today's throwback episode is from an interview with Dr. Corey Edwards last year in regards to his role as a clinical analytics manager. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://w...

132. BPharm to PharmD to Critical Care to Medication Management Informaticist feat. Dr. Hesham Mourad Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode. Dr. Hesham Mourad tells us his story of being a pharmacist in Syria and moving to the U.S. to pursue clinical pharmacy, and how that further led him to his current role as a medication management informaticist with a focus on oncology. To connect wit...

131. EMR Adoption Model, Part 1 Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Today we talk about HIMSS Analytics' EMRAM, aka EMR Adoption Model. This is an 8 stage model that measures the adoption of EMR in a health institution. Today's episode will review stage 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linked...

130. Last Week in Health IT for November 1st, 2019 Intended Audience: Everyone Welcome to another episode of Last Week in Health IT where we talk about some of the significant Health IT-related news items that occurred in the past week. Unstructured EHR data more useful for predictive analytics: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/unstructured-ehr-data-more-useful-predictive-analytics-study-show...

129. Residency Trained IS Clinical Application Specialist feat. Dr. Christopher Lin Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we speak with Dr. Christopher Lin about his journey through pharmacy school, PGY1, and PGY2 before becoming an IS Clinical Application Specialist. He also discusses his day-to-day role in managing break/fixes, service requests, and major projects. He also shares some...

128. How To Introduce Pharmacy Informatics to IPPE Students Intended Audience: Informatics Preceptors On today's episode, Tony talks about what he does for IPPE students in terms of teaching pharmacy informatics. There are some challenges with the lack of continuity and the fact that IPPE students aren't familiar with health systems yet by the time they come to rotations. Follow us on social media...

127. Five Fun Facts You Didn't Know About Pharmacy Intended Audience: Everyone Pharmacy Week is ending! Today's episode is a little break from our typical episodes as we talk about five fun facts related to the history and profession of pharmacy. Sources https://www.digitalpharmacist.com/blog/five-pharmacy-fun-facts/ https://www.pharmacytimes.com/contributor/beth-lofgren-pharmd-bcps/2015/12/8-inte...

126. Technology and Medication Safety feat. Dr. Sean O'Neill Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we had the opportunity to speak with the co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Bainbridge Health, Dr. Sean O'Neill. Dr. O'Neill shares his journey through the residency and clinical route to get to where he is today, and he also shares what Bainbridge is doing to bridge the gap between m...

125. CSHP Seminar 2019 Pharmacy Informatics Recap Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we talk about some of the informatics-specific things that occurred during the CSHP Seminar 2019 held in Anaheim, California at the Disneyland Hotel. Dr. Armen Simonian's previous episode: https://www.pharmacyitme.com/2019/04/17/48-from-experience-to-academia-feat-dr-armen-simonian/ Dr. Jason Lam's pr...