Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast

187. Different Types of Wireless Networks Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Today, we go over some of the different types of wireless network technologies that are in use today. Wireless technologies are important in many healthcare technologies, including workflow technologies, telehealth, digital health, and more. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @p...

186. Last Week in Health IT: COVID-19 Edition for April 11th, 2020 Intended Audience: Everyone Today's episode of Last Week in Health IT is focused on what everyone's doing in healthcare IT to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. For FCC's public release regarding the Telehealth Funding Program: https://www.fcc.gov/covid-19-telehealth-program For more information about the program: https://www.fcc.go...

185. From Medication Systems and Operations to Pharmacy Informatics Manager feat. Dr. Ben Iredell Intended Audience: Everyone Dr. Ben Iredell shares his story on this episode of how his training in Medication Systems and Operations through a PGY1/PGY2 program at Johns Hopkins prepared him for his role today as a Pharmacy Informatics Manager. He also shares some advice on how students and pharmacis...

184. What are Body Area Networks (BANs)? Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Remote patient monitoring is very useful to gather data on a patient without the need of seeing them in person daily. Body Area Network devices are used for this purpose. Today's episode, we go over an introduction of BANs and what they're used for. For information on BANs: https://www.renesas.com/us/en/a...

183. Getting Virtual APPE Rotations & Check Out Brian Fung's Livestream with Richard Waithe Intended Audience: Everyone Students everywhere are having problems with completing their APPE hours. We know. Pharmacy Informatics Academy is working on getting a list of preceptors that are willing to precept virtual rotations. View list here: https://pharmacyinformaticsacademy.com/virtualrotations/ D...

Throwback: Pharmacy Informatics in the Outpatient Setting feat. Dr. Mimi Baker Intended Audience: Everyone Check out today's throwback episode to the time Dr. Mimi Baker was on the show talking about outpatient pharmacy informatics. Original shownotes: On this episode, we get to speak with Dr. Mimi Baker on her career path through residency and eventually landing in clinical software development o...

182. Types of Telemedicine Services Intended Audience: Everyone Telemedicine is here to stay. It provides safeguards for patients and providers as well as allows effective remote services for rural areas. Today, we talk about some of the different types of telemedicine services. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/com...

181. Data Analytics in Highlighting Pharmacist Value and Patient Care feat. Dr. Kent Bridgeman Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we speak with Dr. Kent Bridgeman about his journey in finding how informatics compliments pharmacy and how he gained his experience in informatics and applied it to his PGY1 residency program. He also shares what he currently does with data analytics/inform...

180. What is the HIPAA Security Rule? Intended Audience: Everyone The HIPAA Security Rule is related to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, though HIPAA Security Rule covers the safeguards in relation to ePHI. Today's episode, we quickly go over the requirements in the HIPAA Security Rule. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/comp...

179. Health IT Uses During the COVID-19 Pandemic Intended Audience: Everyone We're in the midst of the SARS-CoV-2 / 2019-nCoV / COVID-19 pandemic. We're on lockdown for the most part. How are we using technology to help with providing patient care? Today we talk about what some companies are doing with telehealth and providing free technology services to streamline and help patients and providers....

Throwback - New Grads in Health IT feat. Dr. David Vu Intended Audience: Everyone Since we first recorded this episode, Dr. David Vu and I have had the pleasure of working together with Dr. Brian Fung and Dr. Beju Shah on increasing the awareness of pharmacy informatics. Today's episode is throwback of the first time I interviewed Dr. Vu on my podcast. Original Shownotes: On this episode, we speak...

Throwback: Next Steps After Not Matching Intended Audience: Everyone Today's episode is a THROWBACK to last year'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 Shownotes from 2019: T...

178. HHS Releases ONC and CMS Final Rules Intended Audience: Everyone Today, we'll skip the "Last Week in Health IT" again and just focus on one big news item: HHS releases the ONC and CMS Final Rules. These documents are massive so this episode will be a very quick and succinct summary on what these thousands of pages mean. If you have some time on your hands, you can find the documents at the fo...

Throwback: Carrying the Bag in Health IT feat. Dr. Jason Lebowitz Intended Audience: Everyone On this throwback episode, we talk to Dr. Jason Lebowitz on his career path through working for large Health IT companies and what his thoughts are in applying clinical pharmacy knowledge in Health IT sales. In addition, he discusses the importance taking opportunities to advance your career and how he de...

177. Ideal Patient Identifiers in Health Information Exchange Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Health information exchange relies on being able to exchange patient information in an easy fashion. One of the ways to do this is by having patient identifiers that are defined nationwide. Today's episode talks about some of the ideal attributes of universal patient identifiers. Foll...

176. HIMSS20 Cancelled Intended Audience: Everyone HIMSS20 has been cancelled in the interest of public health. HIMSS20 has been going on uninterrupted for 58 years, and this year is the first time it has been cancelled. Today's episode will be reviewing the FAQ that HIMSS released regarding the conference cancellation. You can find the FAQ at https://www.himssconference.org/about/himss20-cancella...

175. An Important Healthcare Perspective in Health IT Consulting feat. Dr. Joseph Lassiter Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode of the podcast, we speak with Dr. Joseph Lassiter, president and managing advisor of the Robertson group, a consulting group focused on providing a clinical perspective to healthcare IT consulting. He shares his journey in how he went from managed care to consul...

174. What Is Foundational Interoperability? Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Interoperability exists in three forms: foundational, syntactic, and semantic. On today's episode, we go over what foundational interoperability is and review some examples of protocols that allow foundational interoperability to work. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharm...

173. Last Week in Health IT for February 28th, 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 &a...

172. A Pharmacist, A Technologist, A Lawyer feat. Dr. Robert Stein Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, 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 number of years before getting into law and academia. To co...

171. The Three Types of HIE Models Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics On today's episode, we expand a previous discussion on HIE and we discuss the different types of HIE Models: Centralized HIE Federated HIE Patient-Controlled HIE Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pharmacyitme/ Website: Ph...

170. Last Week in Health IT for February 21st, 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 &a...

169. Biomedical Informatics, Pharmacogenomics, & Academia feat. Dr. Moom Roosan Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Moom Roosan regarding her role in pharmacy informatics. Dr. Roosan has a unique background of attaining a PhD in Biomedical Informatics in addition to her pharmacy degree. She expands on her passion of teaching and on how we can...

168. What is Syntactic Interoperability? Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics We've talked about interoperability before, but let's take a deeper dive into it today by discussing what syntactic interoperability is. Hope you enjoy. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pharmacyitme/ Website: Pharm...

167. Last Week in Health IT for February 14th, 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 &a...