CDS: Introduction to a Powerful Tool

Intended Audience: Pharmacy students or newcomers to pharmacy informatics

This episode, we introduce a very general overview on what clinical decision support is, include advantages, disadvantages, barriers to implementation, medication safety concerns, and what the role of a pharmacist is in building CDS systems.

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Twitter: @pharmacyitme

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For more information on pharmacy informatics, check out some of the following useful links:
ASHP’s Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology
HIMSS Pharmacy Informatics Community

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Tony Dao, PharmD, CPHIMS

Tony graduated from USC School of Pharmacy in 2012 and currently practices as a Pharmacy IS/Informatics Specialist in a health system in Southern California. He hosts the Orange County Pharmacists Association podcast and the Pharmacy, IT, & Me podcast.

I’m So Tired! Alert Fatigue & DDI Optimization

Intended Audience: Students and Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics

In this episode, we talk about what alert fatigue is and how it causes patient harm. We focus on drug-drug interactions in terms of alert fatigue, and we discuss one strategy that has been seen to work for alert optimization of drug-drug interactions.

More information on Alert Fatigue:
Alert Fatigue from AHRQ
Combatting Alert Fatigue

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Twitter: @pharmacyitme

Email: pharmacyitme@gmail.com

Follow Tony’s personal Twitter account at @tonydaopharmd

For more information on pharmacy informatics, check out some of the following useful links:
ASHP’s Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology
HIMSS Pharmacy Informatics Community

This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Tony Dao, PharmD, CPHIMS

Tony graduated from USC School of Pharmacy in 2012 and currently practices as a Pharmacy IS/Informatics Specialist in a health system in Southern California. He hosts the Orange County Pharmacists Association podcast and the Pharmacy, IT, & Me podcast.

Welcome to CPOE

Intended Audience: Pharmacy Students and Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics
Today’s episode, we delve into the basics of CPOE, discussing what it actually is, barriers to implementation, advantages/disadvantages, medication safety, and what a pharmacist’s role in CPOE is.

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Twitter: @pharmacyitme
Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics
Website: Pharmacy IT & Me
Email: pharmacyitme@gmail.com

Follow Tony’s personal Twitter account at @tonydaopharmd

For more information on pharmacy informatics, check out some of the following useful links:
ASHP’s Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology
HIMSS Pharmacy Informatics Community

This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Tony Dao, PharmD, CPHIMS

Tony graduated from USC School of Pharmacy in 2012 and currently practices as a Pharmacy IS/Informatics Specialist in a health system in Southern California. He hosts the Orange County Pharmacists Association podcast and the Pharmacy, IT, & Me podcast.

The Roof is on FHIR

Intended Audience: Current Informatics Pharmacists and any newcomers

In this episode, we talk about the recent release of FHIR 4. We also give a little background of how FHIR came to be and what failed with HL7 version 2 and 3.

Find out more about FHIR here:
FHIR R4
FHIR Organization

Follow us on social media!
Twitter: @pharmacyitme

Email: pharmacyitme@gmail.com

Follow Tony’s personal Twitter account at @tonydaopharmd

For more information on pharmacy informatics, check out some of the following useful links:
ASHP’s Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology
HIMSS Pharmacy Informatics Community

This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Tony Dao, PharmD, CPHIMS

Tony graduated from USC School of Pharmacy in 2012 and currently practices as a Pharmacy IS/Informatics Specialist in a health system in Southern California. He hosts the Orange County Pharmacists Association podcast and the Pharmacy, IT, & Me podcast.

Complaints are Secret Weapons to Success

Intended Audience: Informatics Pharmacists

In this episode, we discuss how complaints are helpful to informatics pharmacists and how to take advantage and leverage complainers for the overall benefit to pharmacy technologies. We discuss how to handle complaints, what to do when issues aren’t fixable, and efficiently tracking complaints.

SuperOffice article referenced in episode can be found here:
https://www.superoffice.com/blog/customer-complaints-good-for-business/

Follow us on social media!
Twitter: @pharmacyitme

Email: pharmacyitme@gmail.com

Follow Tony’s personal Twitter account at @tonydaopharmd

For more information on pharmacy informatics, check out some of the following useful links:
ASHP’s Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology
HIMSS Pharmacy Informatics Community

This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Tony Dao, PharmD, CPHIMS

Tony graduated from USC School of Pharmacy in 2012 and currently practices as a Pharmacy IS/Informatics Specialist in a health system in Southern California. He hosts the Orange County Pharmacists Association podcast and the Pharmacy, IT, & Me podcast.

What is Pharmacy Informatics?

Intended Audience: Anyone who doesn’t know about pharmacy informatics and wants to know more

On this episode, we provide a very, very high level overview of what pharmacy informatics is and what kind of general job duties there are.

Follow us on social media!
Twitter: @pharmacyitme
Instagram: @pharmacyitme
Email: pharmacyitme@gmail.com

Follow Tony’s personal Twitter account at @tonydaopharmd

If you have suggestions for topics or would like to be a guest on the podcast, feel free to reach out to us at the previously listed accounts.

For more information on pharmacy informatics, check out some of the following useful links:
ASHP’s Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology
HIMSS Pharmacy Informatics Community

This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Tony Dao, PharmD, CPHIMS

Tony graduated from USC School of Pharmacy in 2012 and currently practices as a Pharmacy IS/Informatics Specialist in a health system in Southern California. He hosts the Orange County Pharmacists Association podcast and the Pharmacy, IT, & Me podcast.

Episode Notes

Preview episode: Podcast host Tony discusses some background, why this podcast was started, and what you can look forward to in future episodes.

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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Tony Dao, PharmD, CPHIMS

Tony graduated from USC School of Pharmacy in 2012 and currently practices as a Pharmacy IS/Informatics Specialist in a health system in Southern California. He hosts the Orange County Pharmacists Association podcast and the Pharmacy, IT, & Me podcast.