Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast

301. Being a Pharmacist in Healthcare Technology feat. Dr. Dennison Lim Intended Audience: Everyone Pharmacists that transition to health tech companies need to consider what they are looking for in the health tech field. On today's episode, Dr. Dennison Lim, a former informatics pharmacist that has moved into the health tech space, shares his journey as a pharmacy resident to informatics pharmaci...

300. Pharmacy Tools for Investigational Drug Studies feat. Dr. Michael Schlesselman Intended Audience: Everyone Originally recorded early 2022 Investigational drug services and studies are a complicated beast. How does pharmacy informatics and technology play a role? On today's episode, Dr. Michael Schlesselman joins us to discuss how we can leverage technology to help improve the investigational...

299. Applying Clinical Informatics feat. Dr. Scott Nelson Intended Audience: Everyone Originally recorded January 2022. On today's episode, our special guest and highly involved informaticist, Dr. Scott Nelson, shares his journey into the pharmacy informatics and clinical informatics field. In this episode: His journey towards pharmacy informatics Getting involved in pharmacy informatics and healt...

298. Senior Clinical Consultant in Health Care Technology feat. Dr. William Starnes Intended Audience: Everyone Experience in pharmacy operations is essential before stepping into a role of clinical consulting in health care technology! On today's episode originally recorded February 2022, we had the opportunity to speak with our special guest, Dr. William Starnes, on his current role as a Senior...

297. DocStation, COVID-19, and the EHR for the Pharmacist feat. Dr. Samm Anderegg Intended Audience: Everyone Originally recorded on February 22, 2022 On today's episode, we spoke with returning guest, Dr. Samm Anderegg. In this episode, Dr. Anderegg, CEO of DocStation, talks about the expansion of his company and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way they work and what they focus on for t...

296. Feasibility and TELOS Strategy Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Today's episode we go over a brief overview of the first step of the waterfall model, which is looking into feasibility. One of the ways to approach this is adopting a TELOS strategy: T - Technological - looking into the technology aspect and seeing if the project's technical requirements are possible E - Econ...

295. Last Week in Health IT for Friday, July 1st, 2022 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. Disclaimer: Views expressed are those of the individuals and do not reflect thoughts and opinions of any entity with which speakers have been, is now, or will...

294. The Pharmacy HIT Collaborative and Healthcare's Digital Transformation feat. Executive Director Shelly Spiro Intended Audience: Everyone The future of healthcare IT relies on the development of standards today!🏥💻 On today's episode, we speak with Executive Director of the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative, Pharmacist Shelly Spiro, on what the group is doing and the importance of HIT for the future...

293. Last Week in Health IT for June 13th, 2022 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. Disclaimer: Views expressed are those of the individuals and do not reflect thoughts and opinions of any entity with which speakers have been, is now, or will be affi...

292. Managing Medication Technology feat. Dr. Matthew Farley Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we had the opportunity to interview Dr. Matthew Farley, Senior Manager in Medication Technology at Fresenius Kabi USA. Prior to his role at Fresenius Kabi USA, he gathered many different experiences and skills in his roles as informatics pharmacist, pharmacy operations, product strategy, an...

Throwback - A Pharmacist, a Technologist, and a Lawyer feat. Dr. Robert Stein Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode originally published in February 2020, we had the pleasure of speaking with one of the pharmacists that was there at the beginning of pharmacy computer systems! Dr. Robert Stein, PharmD, JD started his career as a pharmacist and went into pharmacy technology for a...

291. A Journey from Technology to Pharmacy and Informatics feat. Pharmacist Anna Dreger Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we had the opportunity to speak with Anna Dreger, an informatics pharmacist with a very unique pathway to get into what she's doing today. Recently recognized with a Distinguished Service Award from ASHP SOPIT, she's been a key part in expanding the domain of know...

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289. Public Health Informatics at the CDC feat. Dr. Kevin Lan Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, Dr. Kevin Lan, Public Health Informatics Fellow at the CDC, is our special guest and shares the missions and goals of the CDC as well as talks about his journey to get to where he is today. Included on today's topics: Dr. Lan's early career and interests Finding a nontraditional path Being...

288. What is Blockchain? Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics and Blockchain Today's episode is not purely about healthcare, but going over just what is blockchain? It's a technology that's been talked about a lot, but do most people understand what it is? Tony attempts to explain this in an introductory manner, and then mentions some brief applications of blockchain in healthcare....

Throwback - One Goal, Many Paths: Next Steps After Not Matching feat. Drs. David Vu, Brian Fung, Beju Shah, Tony Dao Intended Audience: Everyone Today’s episode is a THROWBACK to 2019’s special episode about next steps after not matching. The four of us have had different stories on what we did after not matching and want to let you know that it’s OKAY. There’s still Phase 2, there’s still other p...

287. The Role of Informatics Pharmacists in Innovation and Voice Technology feat. Dr. Ghalib Abbasi Intended Audience: Everyone Innovation in pharmacy informatics comes in many forms. On today's episode, we had the chance to interview Dr. Ghalib Abbasi, Systems Director of Pharmacy Informatics. In his career path, he's gone through many facets of innovation and healthcare technology. Topics includ...

286. Last Week in Health IT for March 7th, 2022 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. Using AI and people power to combat sepsis: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/using-ai-and-people-power-combat-sepsis Disclaimer: Views expressed are those of the...

285. A Pathway to Pharmacy Informatics in Canada feat. Dr. Daniel Chan Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, Dr. Daniel Chan discusses his journey into pharmacy informatics and its practice in Canada. Dr. Chan went into the pharmacy informatics space in a nontraditional way, so he shares his journey and advice on what he's been able to do to get there. In addition, topics of today's epis...

Rebroadcast: ZotRx - Pharmacy Informatics and Technology with Dr. Tony Dao Several months ago, Pharmacy, IT, & Me host Tony Dao was interviewed by Ryan Kwok on the UCI Pre-Pharm Society ZotRx podcast. Today's episode is a rebroadcast of that episode. Host Tony Dao went to undergraduate at UC Irvine, Class of 2008. Disclaimer: Views expressed are those of the individuals and do not reflect thou...

283. Data Science and Some Applications During the COVID-19 Pandemic feat. Dr. Dalton Fabian Intended Audience: Everyone Data science can be applied to clinical decision support, but how has data science been used during the COVID-19 pandemic? On this episode, returning guest and now data scientist Dr. Dalton Fabian talks about the use cases of data science during the pandemic. Topics include: Dr....

282. Barcoding Effect on Medication Safety - Journal Club On today's episode, we're looking at a review article that was published in 2021. LInk: https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2021/04000/The_Effects_of_Bar_coding_Technology_on_Medication.25.aspx?casa_token=DCLS3LqzUHQAAAAA:o9Ww_JC8ETJ6QtLnUo4I0llDnn8YG9yyW-WjEBF3Ns5MwwL6m_-I4t2DUZJTJa5EyGzAg9dIDYb8uMs9oH3T9spmKJFd The Effe...

279. Cosmas Health, Pyrls, and Pharmacists in Software Development feat. Dr. Derek Borkowski Intended Audience: Everyone What can a pharmacist do in software development? On today's episode, we speak with Pyrls creator and Cosmas Health founder Dr. Derek Borkowski. Dr. Borkowski is a pharmacist by training but was able to take his interest in coding to the next level and use it on multiple differe...

278. Last Week in Health IT for January 17th, 2022 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. ========== New to LinkedIn and not sure where to start? Download my free ebook, "Professional Networking Unlocked", at https://www.tonydaopharmd.com/eboo...

277. Kitcheck Bluesight Insights and Data Integration feat. Dr. AJ Rivosecchi Intended Audience: Everyone How does the future of data integration look like for the pharmacy profession? On today's episode, originally recorded in early 2021, we had the opportunity to speak with Dr. AJ Rivosecchi, Product Manager and Director of Clinical Solutions at Kitcheck. Dr. Rivosecchi shares his expertise disc...