Checking in….

The once semi-popular site RxInformatics.com has been shut down.  Chad Hardy and I had a nice run of a number of years on that site.  We both got distracted by our ‘day jobs’.

This site has some of the content I posted during those fertile years.

pharmd.co (no ‘m’) has my pharmacy and general informatic related postings I use in my classes at Massachuesetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in the biomedical informatics courses.

 

Another great find by Jerry Fahrni on Conncected heath

<div style=”margin-bottom:5px”> <strong> <a href=”http://www.slideshare.net/RockHealth/rock-report-sensors-9962927&#8243; title=”Rock Report: Sensors by @Rock_Health” target=”_blank”>Rock Report: Sensors by @Rock_Health</a> </strong> from <strong><a href=”http://www.slideshare.net/RockHealth&#8221; target=”_blank”>Rock Health</a></strong> </div>

Medsnap

This app looks very cool.  Anyone using it?  I can see some workflow issues, but if it works as advertised this can be very useful.

Google Glass for pharmacy practice?

I am watching the developments of Google Glass with intense interest.

The possibilities in pharmacy practice is mind blowing.

Here is just a glimpse from a post shared by @jfahrni

http://rgrosssz.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/28/

and this http://mhealthinsight.com/2012/04/05/google-project-glass-creates-a-pair-of-google-goggles-can-you-see-the-healthcare-opportunities/

Can you think of what it would be like in a pharmacy practice with patients?

 

Cops giving New York City pharmacies OxyContin bottles equipped with GPS tracking devices

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/oxycontin-bottles-new-york-city-pharmacies-equipped-gps-tracking-devices-article-1.1240304

Is this a good idea?  Do you think that maybe bad guys might through away the containers?

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Rebelmouse PharmD and ePharmD

Rebelmouse is a nice little tool to aggregate your social media posts.  

Once set up it works quite well.

Here are two sites I set up in a matter of a few minutes.  

Only wish that Google+ had an API to incorporate their content.

PharmD

https://www.rebelmouse.com/pharmd/  It aggregates my pharmacy posts.  

They tend to be informatics focused but broader than ePharmD (below)

ePharmD

https://www.rebelmouse.com/epharmd/  This is an RSS feed of my personal Evernote Pharmacoinformatics Notebook

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MedFetch Reference: INFORMATICS, CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT, MEDICATIONS

I have mentioned MedFetch in the past.  It is a really cool tool, especially if you have access to a medical library.  

Every once in a while a little gem like this pops up. fyi.

Ontological approach for safe and effective polypharmacy prescription.

http://www.medfetch.com/r/47205/23304299/

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Father of medical informatics, Homer Warner dies

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55391911-78/warner-medical-utah-homer.html.csp

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Controlled Drugs in State Databases must be made available in Health Information Exchanges

Two publications this week solidifies the need and methods for States to open up the databases of 

Controlled Substances to State HIEs.  

Having a web view of the data, as some State are doing, will not work in a clinical workflow (period).

*  First this from the ONC — Enhancing Access to Prescription Drug  Monitoring Programs 

Using Health Information'Technology
http://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/pdmp_work_group_recommendations-1.pdf  

(note PDF) Also see the post below.

* This Journal article from the Permanente Journal on ED Docs and Narcotic History. 
http://www.thepermanentejournal.org/issues/2012/fall/4904-emergency-physicians.html

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JAIMA Nov 2012 Packed with RxInformatics Articles!

Here are some terrific and essential articles in just the latest Journal of Am Medical Informatics Association.  

For all of the pharmacy informatics professionals out there, take a look at AMIA as a place to flex your informatic muscles.  

AMIA.org is a terrific organization that will stretch your knowledge more than any pharmacy organization.  IMHO.

Computerized clinical decision support for medication prescribing and utilization in pediatrics

• Jeremy S Stultz, 
• Milap C Nahata

J Am Med Inform Assoc 2012;19:942–953 Published Online First: 19 July 2012doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000798

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Standard practices for computerized clinical decision support in community hospitals: a national survey

• Joan S Ash, 
• James L McCormack, 
• Dean F Sittig, 
• Adam Wright, 
• Carmit McMullen, 
• David W Bates

J Am Med Inform Assoc 2012;19:980–987 Published Online First: 15 June 2012doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000705

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Collaborative knowledge acquisition for the design of context-aware alert systems

• Erel Joffe, 
• Ofer Havakuk, 
• Jorge R Herskovic, 
• Vimla L Patel, 
• Elmer Victor Bernstam

J Am Med Inform Assoc 2012;19:988–994 Published Online First: 28 June 2012doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000849

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Failure to utilize functions of an electronic prescribing system and the subsequent generation of ‘technically preventable’ computerized alerts

• Melissa T Baysari, 
• Margaret H Reckmann, 
• Ling Li, 
• Richard O Day, 
• Johanna I Westbrook

J Am Med Inform Assoc 2012;19:1003–1010 Published Online First: 26 June 2012doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000730

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