Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast

259. About ASHP's Upcoming Informatics Webinars Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, Dr. Suzie Chen joins us to announce ASHP's upcoming webinars that are going to be presented by Dr. Scott Nelson. The webinars are as follows: Medication Data Standards and Operational Applications Interoperability: Fundamentals, Standards, and Terminologies Data in Action! Practical Analytics Strategies...

258. Last Week in Health IT for April 22nd, 2021 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. Check out this article on "How do providers strike the right balance between in-person care and telehealth?" where Sean Cavanaugh talks about where we move...

257. Pharmacy Informatics in Australia feat. Daniel Trajkov Intended Audience: Everyone We're going international again with another special guest all the way from Australia to talk about how pharmacy informatics practice is in their area! Daniel's varied role in health technology has included being a senior analyst, application manager, clinical lead, pharmacy consultant, and other roles. Topics...

256. Data Quality, Metadata, and Standards in Client Registries Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Last time we talked about what Client Registries are and how they can be used as a method on how to streamline patient record matching. Today, we go into a little more detail about some of the other attributes and potential issues. Data Quality Metadata Standards Check out more info...

255. Last Week in Health IT for April 7th, 2021 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. Check out more healthcare IT news at www.healthcareitnews.com ========== Interested in learning more about pharmacy informatics? Check out the FREE Introduction to Ph...

Throwback - Smart Pumps, Education, and Informatics feat. Dr. Julie Pawola Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, we spoke 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 educati...

254. The Client Registry Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Last time we talked about unique patient identifiers and today we talk about client registries. How do we get to the perfect identifier? It may not even be possible, which is where client registries come into play. To learn more about client registries, check out the really great textbook called Health Information Exchan...

Throwback - Next Steps After Not Matching; One Goal, Many Paths 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 pathways to get to where you want to go. Original Show...

Throwback - From Pharmacy Admin to CEO of DocStation feat. Dr. Samm Anderegg Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback 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...

Data, Data, Data! feat. Digital Pharmacist Dr. Ben Moore Intended Audience: Everyone Let's talk about data, data, data! On today's episode, we speak with Digital Pharmacist Dr. Ben Moore on the importance of data and just how fun and useful it can be to learn how to handle large data sets. Dr. Ben Moore is a self-proclaimed Data Nerd Pharmacist who's day-job is a Pharmaceutical Data Analyst Coordi...

Types of Unique Patient Identifiers Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Last time we talked about the perfect/ideal unique patient identifier. Today, we go over some of the examples of the identifiers that are currently in use: Social Security Number Biometric Identifiers Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier Since these still have problems that are discussed in this episode,...

Who Are You? Let's Talk Patient Identifiers Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics What makes a patient identifier good? That's what we're talking about today. Our discussion is about the 6 traits that make the ideal patient identifier: Unchanging Uncontroversial Unique Ubiquitous Uncomplicated Inexpensive If you'd like to learn more, I recommend checking out "Health information...

Throwback - Epic Pharmacy and Oncology Consulting feat. Dr. William Burger Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback 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...

Last Week in Health IT for March 2nd, 2021 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. Interested in learning more about pharmacy informatics? Check out the FREE Introduction to Pharmacy Informatics course at www.pharmacyinformaticsacademy.com ! New to Linke...

249. From EHR-Certified Student to PGY1-2 Informatics Resident Intended Audience: Everyone Being open to opportunity will take you places! On today's episode, we speak with Dr. Alex Novgorodov who's had a very unique experience in pharmacy informatics. He's been EHR-certified as a student and been exposed to a lot of pharmacy informatics projects prior to applying to residency. Since then, he's be...

Are You Ready for This? Organizational Readiness Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics How do you know if you are ready for change? On today's episode, we discuss some of the factors that tie into why people are resistant to change and what studies have found in terms of getting an organizational to be ready. Article discussed in the episode: Clinicians' perceptions of organizationa...

Throwback - BPharm to PharmD to Critical Care to Medication Management Informaticist feat. Dr. Hesham Mourad Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback 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 oncolog...

Last Week in Health IT for February 16th, 2021 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. Interested in learning more about pharmacy informatics? Check out the FREE Introduction to Pharmacy Informatics course at www.pharmacyinformaticsacademy.com ! New to L...

246. From Retail Pharmacy to Informatics Trainer feat. Dr. Austin Motteler Intended Audience: Everyone How would you move from a retail pharmacy setting into an informatics role? On today's episode, we speak with Dr. Austin Motteler who had a unique experience moving from the retail pharmacy side towards informatics. Topics today include: Retail pharmacy experience Gaining additional training The...

245. What to Think About When Choosing Clinical Content Solutions Intended Audience: New to Pharmacy Informatics What do you need to think about when deciding which clinical content solution providers to go with? Does the clinical content match your patient population? Is it cost-effective to purchase the content versus having your organization's team manually updating content themselves? Is it co...

Throwback - A Canadian Informatics Pharmacist Perspective feat. Gunther Ha Intended Audience: Everyone Today's throwback episode was when we spoke with Gunther Ha, a Canadian informatics pharmacist. No matter which country you are from, healthcare IT is something that continues to be an important part of our lives. Canada is no different, and today’s episode we have special guest Canadian pharmaci...

244. Local or Cloud: Which EHR is Better? Intended Audience: Current Practitioners In considering a locally supported EHR versus a remote-hosted cloud EHR, there are several factors to consider: Reliability Privacy Support Organization size Pricing Today's episode, we discuss a little more about these factors, and I provide an example of my own experience in the past where I was part of an organiz...

243. Varied Experiences Leading to Pharmacy Informatics feat. Dr. Kwasi Agyeman Intended Audience: Everyone Being mindful of the message your sending is key in getting to where you want to be! Today's episode, originally recorded on September 14th, 2020, welcomes guest Dr. Kwasi Agyeman as he discusses his own career and how he landed into his pharmacy informatics position. He's gone through a vas...

242. Last Week in Health IT for January 25th, 2021 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. Interested in learning more about pharmacy informatics? Check out the FREE Introduction to Pharmacy Informatics course at www.pharmacyinformaticsacademy.com ! New...

Throwback - Residency Trained IS Clinical Application Specialist feat. Dr. Christopher Lin Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, we spoke with Dr. Christopher Lin who talked about his journey going through residency and getting trained to become a clinical application specialist. He discusses his journey through pharmacy school, PGY1, and PGY2 before getting into his role today...