Pharmacy Informatics

Overview

The field of Pharmacy Informatics seeks to apply informatics innovations and technologies in pharmacy settings. This includes electronic prescribing (E-Prescribing), tracking inventory, maintaining databases, and tracking adverse drug events. Pharmacy Informatics also benefits healthcare providers and patients alike by allowing better prescription practices and easier access to medications.

Role of Pharmacy Informatics

Pharmacy informaticians are required to contribute their knowledge, data, and analysis to bring out the best results of medication involved with patient care. Their performance of duty improves outcome and prevents medical malpractice. Pharmacy informatics has many different job titles.

Informatics pharmacists- responsible for use of the current technology to provide patient care and provide data to staff, for a system infrastructure of pharmacy-hospital interfacing and for analyze what is needed and find systematic solutions for all pharmaceutical services.

Pharmacy information systems technical specialist- responsible for database management in pharmacy system, maintain the system, update pricing information, manage patient accounts for billing.

Pharmacist practitioner IT- responsible for work with department of ITS to improve and maintain the program, for testing system code changes, for training pharmacists and technicians on information system.

Clinical informatics pharmacist- responsible for managing principles for safe use of order sets and standard order set clinical content, for participating in running test for human factors issues before and after systematic upgrades.

Pharmacy informatics support specialist- responsible for distribution of drugs with computerized system, for managing medications in Pyxis machines and maintaining electronic databases aspect of Pyxis machines.

Computer support Pharmacist- responsible for information systems support and medication distribution support, for maintaining computer systems for department of Pharmacy, for entering medication orders accurately, and for monitoring physician order.

More pharmacy informatics jobs- staff pharmacist information systems, clinical coordinator-info system specialist, clinical coordinator technology systems, pharmacy information systems programmer/analyst, data coordinator/analyst, clinical pharmacist informatics, CPOE systems analyst in pharmacy, clinical pharmacist informatics Epic and system analyst.

IT related pharmacy technician jobs- pharmacy systems coordinator, registered pharmacy informatics technician, computer pharmacy technician and automation pharmacy technician.