Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast

204. Last Week in Health IT for July 10th, 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. CMS Guidance on eCQM for Telehealth: https://ecqi.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/2021-eCQM-Telehealth-Guidance-Document_0.pdf Follow us on social media! Twitter: @p...

203. Being a Team Player is the Key to Success feat. Dr. Matthew Hiott Intended Audience: Everyone Dr. Matthew Hiott spent his early career in the community and specialty settings before taking a deep dive into the pharmacy informatics field. Still new to the field, Dr. Hiott shares his story on how he got to where he is today and how being someone who's easy to work with has been instrumental in...

202. Making a Case for CASE Tools Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics CASE tools, or computer-aided software engineering tools, are useful in keeping SDLC processes consistent and standardized. Today, we briefly go over some of these tools, what they're used for, and their roles in the SDLC process. More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_software_engineerin...

Throwback - From Pharmacy Technician to Pharmacy IT feat. Walter Hopgood Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, we revisit the time we had pharmacy IT consultant Walter Hopgood on the show. He shares his story on how his experience as a pharmacy technician allowed him the opportunity to move towards healthcare IT with a pharmacy focus. Walter specializes in pharmacy solutions an...

Throwback - A Pharmacist & Data Science Analyst feat. Dr. Dalton Fabian Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we get to speak with Dr. Dalton Fabian on his unique pharmacist role at My Diabetes Home, and he expands on his passion for data science and its impacts on pharmacy and healthcare delivery. Additional links: Pharmacist Slack: https://pharmacistsconnect.com Datacamp:...

201. Just a Few Go-Live Strategies Intended Audience: Currently practicing informaticists and newcomers to the field Go-lives are always challenging and you always come out of it with lessons learned. Today, I share some of my own experiences with what has worked for go-lives I've been part of. Some topics I mention are: Centralizing education in an easily retrievable location Creating a clear str...

200. The Difficult Reality of Pharmacy Informatics Intended Audience: Everyone 💻❓Pharmacy Informatics.... are you sure this is the lifestyle you want?❓💻 One of the major misconceptions about pharmacy informatics is that it's an easy field to get into and the job itself is not as stressful as traditional roles in pharmacy. This is not true. The difficult reality is that roles in pharmacy inform...

199. Dynamic System Development Method Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Another method in the SDLC pool of methodologies is the Dynamic System Development Method. Today, we go into the high-level overview of it as well as the 5 project phases. More info on DSDM can be found at various places online: https://www.agilebusiness.org/page/whatisdsdm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn...

Throwback - Why Master's in Healthcare Informatics? Feat. Dr. Kendall Cortelyou-Ward Intended Audience: Everyone Were you curious about a Master's degree in Healthcare Informatics? It's not for everyone, but hopefully today's throwback episode gives you some context to make an informed decision. On today’s throwback episode, we speak with the Program Director from UCF’s Master’s Degree in Health C...

198. Last Week in Health IT for June 9th, 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 &am...

197. Automation in Operational Safety & Efficiency: An Executive's Perspective feat. Dr. Rita Jew Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we're very excited to speak with nationally recognized pharmacy executive, Dr. Rita Jew, on her experience and thoughts on operational efficiency and safety with the use of automation and healthcare technology. She's been part of a number of innovati...

196. Let's Get Object-Oriented Intended Audience: Those Interested in Project Implementations We've previously discussed the waterfall model and the rapid prototyping model in the systems development life cycle. Today, we go to the next model on the list, the OOSD which is the object-oriented systems development. We discuss in a high-level overview the definitions of classes, objects, attributes,...

Throwback - Pharmacy Informatics Residency & Education feat. Dr. Denis Kitayama Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we get to interview Dr. Denis Kitayama of Kaiser Permanente on his role as a pharmacy project manager and residency program coordinator for the PGY2 pharmacy informatics program at Kaiser Downey. He also discusses his experience in the past with startups and...

195. Rapid Prototyping is RAD Intended Audience: Everyone Rapid prototyping is a method that's used in systems development that falls under a rapid timeline. It is user-focused and heavily relies on prototyping and user feedback. Today's discussion goes over a high-level overview of rapid prototyping. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https...

194. Journeying into Digital Health, Innovation, & Strategic Advising feat Julie Fishman, RPh, MPA Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we get to speak with Julie Fishman, RPh, MPA on her journey into digital health and therapeutics. She discusses her unique journey into the field and useful information for those interested in the field. Listen in on this episode as she discusses:...

193. Last Week in Health IT for May 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 &am...

Throwback - Pharmacy Informatics in Long Term Care feat. Becky Agar Intended Audience: Everyone On this throwback episode, we get to speak with Becky Agar, Vice President of Hogan Pharmacy Partners, on her pathway from community pharmacist to long term care pharmacy informatics. She discusses interesting topics of bringing inpatient technologies into the long term care setting and provides great a...

192. SDLC and the Waterfall Model Intended Audience: Newcomers to pharmacy informatics We have previously spoken about the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) and today we'll be speaking about one of the older models used in SDLC called the Waterfall Model. You can find more information on the Waterfall Model at https://www.tutorialspoint.com/sdlc/sdlc_waterfall_model.htm Follow us on social med...

Throwback - Directing Informatics Projects feat. Dr. Marie-Elsie Ade Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we interview Dr. Marie-Elsie Ade on her experience in teaching, being a pharmacy informaticist, directing pharmacy projects, and being a director of pharmacy! She also provides advice on different avenues for pharmacists to take in navigating towards pharmacy informatics....

191. What is Cognitive Informatics and Why It's Important in Healthcare Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Cognitive informatics is an important aspect of informatics that focuses on the way people think and how a computer processes information. Part of cognitive informatics is artificial intelligence, which you can find more information at https://pharmacyinformaticsacademy.com/...

190. A Storied Career in Innovation & Pharmacy Informatics feat. Dr. Dennis Tribble Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we are so honored to have Dr. Dennis Tribble be on the show to share his vast amounts of experience and his long journey from clinical pharmacy to pharmacy informatics in industry and innovation. Dr. Tribble continues to teach pharmacy informatics to the future of...

189. Telehealth and Pharmacy Services During COVID-19 Intended Audience: Everyone Today's episode is a narration of the an article that I wrote for CPhA's Digital Health Corner regarding telehealth in the time of COVID-19. Full article found here: https://cpha.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/DigitalHealth_TelehealthCOVID19.pdf Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyin...

Throwback - Informatics in Pharmacogenetics feat. Andrea Paterson Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, Pharmacy, IT, & Me goes international! We interview special guest, Canadian Pharmacist Andrea Paterson, on her role in the pharmacogenetics world and how informatics and technology play into algorithm development for precision prescribing. She provides great insight into...

188. Drug Diversion Monitoring Software: What Are They? Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Drug diversion is a constant problem in many large organizations. Using electronic drug diversion monitoring software can help with identify potential diversion before they occur. Check out https://klasresearch.com/compare/drug-diversion-monitoring/365 for a list of some drug diversion moni...

Throwback - From Experience to Academia feat. Dr. Armen Simonian Intended Audience: Everyone In today's throwback to episode 48, Dr. Armen Simonian of KGI School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences discusses his vast experience in pharmacy informatics and technology systems and how that translates over to what he currently teaches students over at KGI School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. To reach D...