Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast

224. Why Use 340B Splitter Software? Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics The 340B Drug Discount Program is a complicated program that's been around since the early 90's. With all the requirements and regulations, it becomes necessary to find ways to track the medications in order to meet regulations. 340B splitter software helps organizations with this challenge. Today, we talk ab...

223. Last Week in Healthcare IT for September 26th, 2020 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. Article on Social Informatics: https://academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jamia/ocaa175/5907049 New to LinkedIn and not sure where to start?...

222. CPhA's Digital Health Conference (DHX Virtual 2020) feat. Dr. Risa Vatanka Intended Audience: Everyone The technology is available, so let's use it to design pharmacy's future together! On today's episode, we speak with DHX Virtual Chair, Dr. Risa Vatanka, about how digital health and technologies have been exponentially catalyzed during the pandemic. In addition, much more of this discussion...

221. Why Do I Need to Track Project Time? Intended Audience: Everyone When working in pharmacy informatics, you may be asked to work on multiple projects. Sometimes, that comes with logging your specific time spent on those projects. This feels like double documenting, but why is this important? Today, we discuss this a little bit more. New to LinkedIn and not sure where to start? Download my free...

220. From Administration to Director of Pharmacy Information Systems feat. Dr. Barry McClain Intended Audience: Everyone You never know what can spark your inspiration for the next step in your career. 💡 On today's episode, I was honored to have special guest Dr. Barry McClain share his story on how he got into his role as the Director of Pharmacy Information Systems at Advocate Aurora. I enjoyed...

219. Who's Arden? Arden Syntax in Medical Logic Modules Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Have you heard of Arden? Today's episode we talk about the Arden Syntax standard and how it's used in Medical Logic Modules, or MLMs. Arden Syntax is used in a number of EHRs today, but it's not used in all of them. For some EHRs, the Arden Syntax structure is embraced because of how organi...

218. Last Week in Health IT for September 11th, 2020 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 don't know where to start? Download Tony's FREE LinkedIn eBook at www.tonydaopharmd.com/#ebook Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyi...

Throwback - Longitudinal PGY2 Pharmacy Residency feat. Dr. Anthony Vo Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, we speak with Dr. Anthony Vo, who at the time of recording was completing his residency in pharmacy informatics. He goes over different topics regarding the residency program's longitudinal nature and skills he picked up to be successful. Follow us on social media! Twitte...

217. Pharmacists are Integral Players in Consumer-Focused Digital Health Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics and Digital Health Today's episode is an audio reading of an article Tony wrote for CPhA's Digital Health Corner for August 2020. To read the article, visit https://digitalhealthcpha.com/2020/08/pharmacists-are-integral-players-in-consumer-focused-digital-health/ New to Lin...

216. A Chief Pharmacy Officer's Perspective & The Autonomous Pharmacy Framework feat. Dr. Christopher Fortier Intended Audience: Everyone How can we use technology to innovate pharmacy practice and push the profession forward? That is the primary question we answer in today's episode with special guest Dr. Christopher Fortier. Dr. Fortier is a Chief Pharmacy Officer and also involved with The...

215. AI-Assisted EHR Documentation an Human Oversight Intended Audience: Newcomers to Informatics Recently, JAMIA published an article that discusses how AI can be used in documentation assistants to improve provider efficiency/workflows. Today's episode briefly goes over the article and we talk a little but about how human oversight is still needed until AI tools provide a confident level of reli...

Throwback - Project Managing, Business, & Informatics feat. Pharmacist Alicia Williams Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode we speak with Alicia Williams, a pharmacist who's made her career unique with her experiences in IT, informatics, business, inpatient, consulting, and more! She shares her story and also provides some great advice on what others can do to get into the...

214. What Did I Do In My Early Career in Informatics? Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics A question that I get a lot of is what did I do in my early career in pharmacy informatics. Though I can't tell you the surefire steps to a successful informatics career, I can share you what my early steps are when I started. In this episode, I talk about: Volunteering for projects Learning...

213. Evolving from Pharmacy Technician to Implementation Consultant feat. Amanda McDowell Intended Audience: Everyone If you have the drive, you can accomplish great things! On today's episode, we speak with pharmacy implementation consultant Amanda McDowell on what her role is in the pharmacy technology space. Amanda has been trained as a pharmacy technician and has been able to pave a road towar...

212. Last Week in Health IT for August 18th, 2020 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 &amp...

Throwback - Academia, Residency, Master's Program, and Blockchain feat. Dr. Beth Breeden Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, we spoke with Dr. Elizabeth Breeden on many facets of pharmacy informatics. Dr. Breeden is faculty at Lipscomb University and involved in the PGY2 pharmacy informatics residency program and the Master’s program in Health Care Informatics. She also discu...

211. Why Don't We All Use These Technology Tools? Intended Audience: Everyone We have all these technology and informatics tools that can improve patient care and reduce medication errors... so why don't we use them? Today's episode we will go over a few reasons why not everyone is adopting all these tools right now. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics...

210. A Journey from Residency to Director of Medication Systems and Informatics feat. Dr. David Aguero Intended Audience: Everyone "I never lose. I either win or learn." - Nelson Mandela On today's episode, we had the opportunity to speak with special guest Dr. David Aguero about his journey into informatics. He successfully completed a pharmacy residency program focused on medication use systems...

209. Interactive Gaming and Health Technology Intended Audience: Everyone Video games have come a long way, and what used to be something with a reputation of making people unhealthy is now being used to catalyze people into engaging in their own health. Today's episode, we talk about an example of where we can be in the future, integrating video games with BAN technologies and dietary analysis. C...

Throwback - Digital Health and Pharmacogenetics Perspectives feat. Dr. Christy Cheung Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, we speak with Dr. Christy Cheung on today’s episode about her perspectives on digital health, pharmacogenetics, the use of technology in healthcare, and much more! In addition, Christy also shares her digital health blog called Think Digital Health. To rea...

208. Pharmacy IT Tools and Specialty Pharmacy **Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics ** On today's episode, we talk about specialty pharmacy and how complicated it can be with URAC accreditation. Pharmacy IT and informatics software applications can help ease this process by making the information trackable and reportable, as well as integrating patient engagement tools. Follow us...

207. The Geospatial Pharmacist and Patient Advocate feat. Dr. Jing Wu Intended Audience: Everyone 🗺️📍 Environments, zip codes, and locations are DIRECTLY related to health outcomes. 💊🚑 How do we USE this information? 📊 On today’s episode, we had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jing Wu on her role at Esri as an account executive for GIS and its relation to public health. This is an exciting n...

206. Syndromic Surveillance Systems: A Brief Intro Intended Audience: Everyone Syndromic surveillance systems are a type of informatics-based tool that is used in public health to assist with outbreak detection and early disease signs. It uses a lot of information aggregated from disparate sources to detect patterns and trends. Today's episode is a brief introduction to the topic, but more informa...

Throwback - Getting Specialized - PGY 2 Residency feat. Dr. Diana Schreier Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we spoke with Dr. Diana Schreier on her experience with going through a PGY1 program and eventually working her way through completing her PGY2 program in pharmacy informatics. She also discusses how having an MBA was very useful for her pathway, and she provides som...

Announcement: Pharmacy Informatics Academy Intro Course Coming Soon Intended Audience: Everyone I'm excited to announce that my colleagues and I at Pharmacy Informatics Academy have been hard at work at a high-level introductory FREE course on an introduction to pharmacy informatics. We'll let you know when the course is fully available soon! For more information, check out www.pharmacyinformatics...