PHP 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Clinical Pharmacy, Clinical Decision Support System, Health Informatics

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27 Nov 2016
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Medication info may be patient specific or developed for a patient population. Over the last 50 years focus has shifted- med safety, advances in info, evidence based medicine, new environments of care. Automated interventions because of the computerized medical records. Need to have updated knowledge of technology and skills to evaluate information. Medication information: may be patient specific or developed for a patient population, ie guidelines, adverse drug event reporting. Drug information: information found in a reference or verbalized by an individual that pertains to medications: specialist/ practitioner/ pharmacist / provider implies specific individual, center/ service/ practice implies a place, functions/ skills implies activities. First drug information center was at university of kentucky medical center- wanted pharmacy students to be involved in becoming drug consultants. Their duties: support clinical services with med info, answer questions regarding meds, develop polices, provide poison info, develop guidelines, analyze impact of drug polices, provide edu for healthcare professionals, manage medication usage eval, etc.

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