Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast

By Tony Dao, PharmD, CPHIMS

What's Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast about?

Informatics Pharmacist, Tony Dao, hosts this podcast series that discusses different aspects and topics in the pharmacy informatics and technology space and how leveraging the IT tools in the healthcare landscape can ultimately improve patient care and satisfaction.

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Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast episodes:

12.07.2021
274. The Importance of Data Integration for Clinical Practice feat. RxRevu Founder Carm Huntress
274. The Importance of Data Integration for Clinical Practice feat. RxRevu Founder Carm Huntress Intended Audience: Everyone Data is becoming increasingly important in every day life, but how exactly does it impact clinicians in healthcare? On today's episode, we speak with RxRevu Founder...
12.01.2021
273. Pharmacy Informatics Residency, MHCI, and Finding Your Path feat. Dr. Stacey Lynn English
273. Pharmacy Informatics Residency, MHCI, and Finding Your Path feat. Dr. Stacey Lynn English Intended Audience: Everyone What kind of routes are there to get into pharmacy informatics? On today's episode originally recorded in Fall 2020, we spoke with Dr. Stacey Lynn English...
11.23.2021
272. Things to Ask Third-Party Vendors
272. Things to Ask Third-Party Vendors Intended Audience: Pharmacy Informaticists What do you do when you're starting to implement a third party solution to your EHR?
11.19.2021
Throwback - Biomedical Informatics, Pharmacogenomics, & Academia feat. Dr. Moom Roosan
Throwback - Biomedical Informatics, Pharmacogenomics, & Academia feat. Dr. Moom Roosan Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Moom Roosan regarding her role in pharmacy informatics. Dr. Roosan has a unique background of attaining...
10.26.2021
271. Last Week in Health IT for October 25th, 2021
271. Last Week in Health IT for October 25th, 2021 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. ========== Interested...
10.11.2021
Throwback - Becoming a Director of Pharmacy Support Services feat. Dr. Neil Ratcliff
Throwback - Becoming a Director of Pharmacy Support Services feat. Dr. Neil Ratcliff Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Neil Ratcliff and his role at PipelineRx as the Director of Pharmacy Support Services...
09.24.2021
270. Synthetic Health Data and CodeRx feat. Dr. Joey LeGrand
270. Synthetic Health Data and CodeRx feat. Dr. Joey LeGrand Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode originally recorded in April 2021, we had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Joey LeGrand about synthetic health data and the CodeRx community. CodeRx is the recent...
09.17.2021
269. Pharmacy Informatics and Clinical Content feat. Dr. Hannah Nguyen
269. Pharmacy Informatics and Clinical Content feat. Dr. Hannah Nguyen Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode originally recorded in Fall 2020, Dr. Hannah Nguyen is interviewed about her career path and what her role is at Kaiser Permanente as an informatics pharmacist...
09.07.2021
268. Pharmacy Informatics Education in Canada feat. Professor Marie Rocchi
268. Pharmacy Informatics Education in Canada feat. Professor Marie Rocchi Intended Audience: Everyone Education in pharmacy informatics continues to be a difficult endeavor. On today's episode, we speak with Professor Marie Rocchi about how pharmacy informatics education was attempted to be standardized...
08.30.2021
Throwback - Patient-Centric Health and Technology feat. Dr. Whitley Yi
Throwback - Patient-Centric Health and Technology feat. Dr. Whitley Yi Intended Audience: Everyone Digital Health and consumer-focused healthcare technology is one of the ever-changing and ever-evolving landscapes where pharmacists can make a difference. On today's throwback episode, we had the pleasure of...
08.14.2021
267. HIMSS21 Highlights
267. HIMSS21 Highlights Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we cover some highlights from the HIMSS21 conference this year. Keynotes aside, there were a lot of things to talk about. I'll admit, I was not able to get through everything at HIMSS...
08.09.2021
Throwback - A Journey to Director of Clinical Informatics feat. Dr. John Poikonen
Throwback - A Journey to Director of Clinical Informatics feat. Dr. John Poikonen Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, we spoke with Dr. John Poikonen on his varied history and experience in the pharmacy IT and informatics space. At the time...
07.30.2021
266. Importance of Technology and Data in Managed Care feat. Dr. Justin Bioc
266. Importance of Technology and Data in Managed Care feat. Dr. Justin Bioc Intended Audience: Everyone Technology and data continues to be importance in all aspects of healthcare, including the managed care space. On today's episode, we spoke with managed care pharmacist Dr....
07.23.2021
Throwback - Consulting Services from a Community and Pharmacy IT Background feat. Dr. Terri Wang
Throwback - Consulting Services from a Community and Pharmacy IT Background feat. Dr. Terri Wang Intended Audience: Everyone All of our experiences help us to get to where we are today! On today's throwback episode originally released on January 22nd, 2020, Dr....
07.16.2021
265. Last Week in Health IT for July 16th, 2021
265. Last Week in Health IT for July 16th, 2021 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. ========== Interested...
06.24.2021
264. Components of an Implementation Plan
264. Components of an Implementation Plan Intended Audience: Everyone What's in an implementation plan? Quite a lot. Check out today's episode where we talk about some of the common components of an implementation plan: Workflow analysis System configurations/installations Training Conversion/data analysis Communication Go-live preparation Downtime considerations ========== Interested in learning...
06.18.2021
263. Last Week in Health IT for June 18th, 2021
263. Last Week in Health IT for June 18th, 2021 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. ========== Interested...
06.14.2021
Throwback - A Journey of IT to Pharmacy to Clinical Informatics feat. Dr. Sabrina Bernhart
Throwback - A Journey of IT to Pharmacy to Clinical Informatics feat. Dr. Sabrina Bernhart Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Sabrina Bernhart on her unique journey being in the information technology field before...
06.03.2021
262. Oncology Pharmacy Informatics feat. Dr. Nicholas Bacon
262. Oncology Pharmacy Informatics feat. Dr. Nicholas Bacon Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we delve into the niche world of oncology pharmacy informatics. Dr. Nicholas Bacon shares his experience in how he got into the oncology space and subsequently into the...
05.27.2021
261. Last Week in Health IT for May 27th, 2021
261. Last Week in Health IT for May 27th, 2021 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. ========== Interested...
05.20.2021
Throwback - Going Beyond Inpatient: Outpatient Informatics feat. Dr. AJ Teare
Throwback - Going Beyond Inpatient: Outpatient Informatics feat. Dr. AJ Teare Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we speak with Dr. AJ Teare on his role and journey into the pharmacy informatics world. Dr. Teare started off showing his passion on...
05.11.2021
260. Algorithmic Matching in Client Registries
260. Algorithmic Matching in Client Registries Intended Audience: Newcomers to Healthcare IT On today's episode, we continue the discussion on client registries. How to client registries actually do the match of patient records? Algorithmic matching becomes essential in how we determine the...
05.03.2021
Throwback - Clinical to Admin to Technology and Innovation feat. Dr. David Berkowitz
Throwback - Clinical to Admin to Technology and Innovation feat. Dr. David Berkowitz Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we speak with current Omnicell Performance Center Field Consultant, Dr. David Berkowitz, on his incredible journey going from clinical pharmacy to pharmacy...
04.25.2021
259. About ASHP's Upcoming Informatics Webinars
259. About ASHP's Upcoming Informatics Webinars Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, Dr. Suzie Chen joins us to announce ASHP's upcoming webinars that are going to be presented by Dr. Scott Nelson. The webinars are as follows: Medication Data Standards and Operational Applications Interoperability:...
04.23.2021
258. Last Week in Health IT for April 22nd, 2021
258. Last Week in Health IT for April 22nd, 2021 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. Check...
04.15.2021
257. Pharmacy Informatics in Australia feat. Daniel Trajkov
257. Pharmacy Informatics in Australia feat. Daniel Trajkov Intended Audience: Everyone We're going international again with another special guest all the way from Australia to talk about how pharmacy informatics practice is in their area! Daniel's varied role in health technology has...
04.14.2021
256. Data Quality, Metadata, and Standards in Client Registries
256. Data Quality, Metadata, and Standards in Client Registries Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Last time we talked about what Client Registries are and how they can be used as a method on how to streamline patient record matching. Today, we...
04.07.2021
255. Last Week in Health IT for April 7th, 2021
255. Last Week in Health IT for April 7th, 2021 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. Check...
04.03.2021
Throwback - Smart Pumps, Education, and Informatics feat. Dr. Julie Pawola
Throwback - Smart Pumps, Education, and Informatics feat. Dr. Julie Pawola Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, we spoke with special guest, Dr. Julie Pawola, on her role in pharmacy informatics and technology. She shares some of her daily job duties...
03.30.2021
254. The Client Registry
254. The Client Registry Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Last time we talked about unique patient identifiers and today we talk about client registries. How do we get to the perfect identifier? It may not even be possible, which is where...
03.19.2021
Throwback - Next Steps After Not Matching; One Goal, Many Paths
Throwback - Next Steps After Not Matching; One Goal, Many Paths Intended Audience: Everyone Today's episode is a THROWBACK to 2019's special episode about next steps after not matching. The four of us have had different stories on what we did after...
03.19.2021
Throwback - From Pharmacy Admin to CEO of DocStation feat. Dr. Samm Anderegg
Throwback - From Pharmacy Admin to CEO of DocStation feat. Dr. Samm Anderegg Intended Audience: Everyone On today’s throwback episode, we interview Dr. Samm Anderegg about his unique journey to where he is today. Dr. Anderegg started off with doing a residency...
03.15.2021
253. Data, Data, Data! feat. Digital Pharmacist Dr. Ben Moore
Data, Data, Data! feat. Digital Pharmacist Dr. Ben Moore Intended Audience: Everyone Let's talk about data, data, data! On today's episode, we speak with Digital Pharmacist Dr. Ben Moore on the importance of data and just how fun and useful it can be...
03.14.2021
252. Types of Unique Patient Identifiers
Types of Unique Patient Identifiers Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Last time we talked about the perfect/ideal unique patient identifier. Today, we go over some of the examples of the identifiers that are currently in use: Social Security Number Biometric Identifiers Voluntary Universal Healthcare...
03.11.2021
251. Who Are You? Let's Talk Patient Identifiers
Who Are You? Let's Talk Patient Identifiers Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics What makes a patient identifier good? That's what we're talking about today. Our discussion is about the 6 traits that make the ideal patient identifier: Unchanging Uncontroversial Unique Ubiquitous Uncomplicated Inexpensive If you'd like to learn...
03.05.2021
Throwback - Epic Pharmacy and Oncology Consulting feat. Dr. William Burger
Throwback - Epic Pharmacy and Oncology Consulting feat. Dr. William Burger Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, Dr. William Burger introduces us to the world of Epic consulting through Willow and Beacon. He talks about his pathway to getting into pharmacy...
03.03.2021
250. Last Week in Health IT for March 2nd, 2021
Last Week in Health IT for March 2nd, 2021 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. Interested in...
02.25.2021
249. From EHR-Certified Student to PGY1-2 Informatics Resident
249. From EHR-Certified Student to PGY1-2 Informatics Resident Intended Audience: Everyone Being open to opportunity will take you places! On today's episode, we speak with Dr. Alex Novgorodov who's had a very unique experience in pharmacy informatics. He's been EHR-certified as a student...
02.24.2021
248. Are You Ready for This? Organizational Readiness
Are You Ready for This? Organizational Readiness Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics How do you know if you are ready for change? On today's episode, we discuss some of the factors that tie into why people are resistant to change and what...
02.19.2021
Throwback - BPharm to PharmD to Critical Care to Medication Management Informaticist feat. Dr. Hesham Mourad
Throwback - BPharm to PharmD to Critical Care to Medication Management Informaticist feat. Dr. Hesham Mourad Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode. Dr. Hesham Mourad tells us his story of being a pharmacist in Syria and moving to the U.S. to...
02.16.2021
247. Last Week in Health IT for February 16th, 2021
Last Week in Health IT for February 16th, 2021 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. Interested in learning...
02.12.2021
246. From Retail Pharmacy to Informatics Trainer feat. Dr. Austin Motteler
246. From Retail Pharmacy to Informatics Trainer feat. Dr. Austin Motteler Intended Audience: Everyone How would you move from a retail pharmacy setting into an informatics role? On today's episode, we speak with Dr. Austin Motteler who had a unique experience moving from...
02.09.2021
245. What to Think About When Choosing Clinical Content Solutions
245. What to Think About When Choosing Clinical Content Solutions Intended Audience: New to Pharmacy Informatics What do you need to think about when deciding which clinical content solution providers to go with? Does the clinical content match your patient population? Is it cost-effective...
02.05.2021
Throwback - A Canadian Informatics Pharmacist Perspective feat. Gunther Ha
Throwback - A Canadian Informatics Pharmacist Perspective feat. Gunther Ha Intended Audience: Everyone Today's throwback episode was when we spoke with Gunther Ha, a Canadian informatics pharmacist. No matter which country you are from, healthcare IT is something that continues to be an...
02.02.2021
244. Local or Cloud: Which EHR is Better?
244. Local or Cloud: Which EHR is Better? Intended Audience: Current Practitioners In considering a locally supported EHR versus a remote-hosted cloud EHR, there are several factors to consider: Reliability Privacy Support Organization size Pricing Today's episode, we discuss a little more about these factors, and I provide...
01.28.2021
243. Varied Experiences Leading to Pharmacy Informatics feat. Dr. Kwasi Agyeman
243. Varied Experiences Leading to Pharmacy Informatics feat. Dr. Kwasi Agyeman Intended Audience: Everyone Being mindful of the message your sending is key in getting to where you want to be! Today's episode, originally recorded on September 14th, 2020, welcomes guest Dr. Kwasi...
01.26.2021
242. Last Week in Health IT for January 25th, 2021
242. Last Week in Health IT for January 25th, 2021 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. Interested...
01.20.2021
Throwback - Residency Trained IS Clinical Application Specialist feat. Dr. Christopher Lin
Throwback - Residency Trained IS Clinical Application Specialist feat. Dr. Christopher Lin Intended Audience: Everyone On today's throwback episode, we spoke with Dr. Christopher Lin who talked about his journey going through residency and getting trained to become a clinical application specialist....
01.13.2021
241. The Pharmacy Informatics Professor 2020 YouTube Series feat. Dr. Armen Simonian
241. The Pharmacy Informatics Professor 2020 YouTube Series featuring Dr. Armen Simonian Intended Audience: Everyone On today's episode, we have special returning guest Dr. Armen Simonian! He shares with us what he's been working on since the last time he was on,...
01.05.2021
240. Top 10 Most Popular Episodes of 2020 of the Pharmacy, IT, & Me Podcast
240. Top 10 Most Popular Episodes of 2020 of the Pharmacy, IT, & Me Podcast Intended Audience: Everyone On today's first episode of 2021, we recap the top 10 most popular episodes of our podcast from 2020. List: Biomedical Informatics, Pharmacogenomics, & Academia Becoming a...

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Pharmacy, IT, & Me: Your Informatics Pharmacist Podcast episodes:

274. The Importance of Data Integration for Clinical Practice feat. RxRevu Founder Carm Huntress

273. Pharmacy Informatics Residency, MHCI, and Finding Your Path feat. Dr. Stacey Lynn English

272. Things to Ask Third-Party Vendors

Throwback - Biomedical Informatics, Pharmacogenomics, & Academia feat. Dr. Moom Roosan

271. Last Week in Health IT for October 25th, 2021

Throwback - Becoming a Director of Pharmacy Support Services feat. Dr. Neil Ratcliff

270. Synthetic Health Data and CodeRx feat. Dr. Joey LeGrand

269. Pharmacy Informatics and Clinical Content feat. Dr. Hannah Nguyen

268. Pharmacy Informatics Education in Canada feat. Professor Marie Rocchi

Throwback - Patient-Centric Health and Technology feat. Dr. Whitley Yi

267. HIMSS21 Highlights

Throwback - A Journey to Director of Clinical Informatics feat. Dr. John Poikonen

266. Importance of Technology and Data in Managed Care feat. Dr. Justin Bioc

Throwback - Consulting Services from a Community and Pharmacy IT Background feat. Dr. Terri Wang

265. Last Week in Health IT for July 16th, 2021

264. Components of an Implementation Plan

263. Last Week in Health IT for June 18th, 2021

Throwback - A Journey of IT to Pharmacy to Clinical Informatics feat. Dr. Sabrina Bernhart

262. Oncology Pharmacy Informatics feat. Dr. Nicholas Bacon

261. Last Week in Health IT for May 27th, 2021

Throwback - Going Beyond Inpatient: Outpatient Informatics feat. Dr. AJ Teare

260. Algorithmic Matching in Client Registries

Throwback - Clinical to Admin to Technology and Innovation feat. Dr. David Berkowitz

259. About ASHP's Upcoming Informatics Webinars

258. Last Week in Health IT for April 22nd, 2021

257. Pharmacy Informatics in Australia feat. Daniel Trajkov

256. Data Quality, Metadata, and Standards in Client Registries

255. Last Week in Health IT for April 7th, 2021

Throwback - Smart Pumps, Education, and Informatics feat. Dr. Julie Pawola

254. The Client Registry

Throwback - Next Steps After Not Matching; One Goal, Many Paths

Throwback - From Pharmacy Admin to CEO of DocStation feat. Dr. Samm Anderegg

253. Data, Data, Data! feat. Digital Pharmacist Dr. Ben Moore

252. Types of Unique Patient Identifiers

251. Who Are You? Let's Talk Patient Identifiers

Throwback - Epic Pharmacy and Oncology Consulting feat. Dr. William Burger

250. Last Week in Health IT for March 2nd, 2021

249. From EHR-Certified Student to PGY1-2 Informatics Resident

248. Are You Ready for This? Organizational Readiness

Throwback - BPharm to PharmD to Critical Care to Medication Management Informaticist feat. Dr. Hesham Mourad

247. Last Week in Health IT for February 16th, 2021

246. From Retail Pharmacy to Informatics Trainer feat. Dr. Austin Motteler

245. What to Think About When Choosing Clinical Content Solutions

Throwback - A Canadian Informatics Pharmacist Perspective feat. Gunther Ha

244. Local or Cloud: Which EHR is Better?

243. Varied Experiences Leading to Pharmacy Informatics feat. Dr. Kwasi Agyeman

242. Last Week in Health IT for January 25th, 2021

Throwback - Residency Trained IS Clinical Application Specialist feat. Dr. Christopher Lin

241. The Pharmacy Informatics Professor 2020 YouTube Series feat. Dr. Armen Simonian

240. Top 10 Most Popular Episodes of 2020 of the Pharmacy, IT, & Me Podcast