Pharmacy informatics in multihospital health systems: Opportunities and challenges

Chalmers, Jeffrey; Siska, Mark H.; Le, Trinh; Knoer, Scott J.

doi:10.2146/ajhp170580

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“…The participants discussed the clear benefits for informatics pharmacists in translating and connecting clinical and digital specialties. Their responses align with international studies showing that informatics pharmacists are responsible for communicating between clinical and IT teams 2,11 . This collaboration helps optimise the use of digital tools in evaluating medicine use according to best practice, current legislation, and scientific evidence to improve patients safety and outcomes 12 …”

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“…Their responses align with international studies showing that informatics pharmacists are responsible for communicating between clinical and IT teams. 2,11 This collaboration helps optimise the use of digital tools in evaluating medicine use according to best practice, current legislation, and scientific evidence to improve patients safety and outcomes. 12 As healthcare professionals, pharmacists, with their comprehensive knowledge of therapeutics, medicine use requirements and understanding of prescribing and dispensing systems, are uniquely positioned to streamline and optimise digital healthcare provision.…”

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The roles and perspectives of an informatics pharmacist practicing in the Australian healthcare setting: a qualitative study

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Snoswell

Banks

et al. 2023

Pharmacy Practice and Res

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Background The implementation of digital healthcare systems in hospitals globally and in Australia has led to the introduction of the informatics pharmacist as a career in the healthcare system. However, informatics pharmacists are not yet part of routine clinical services in Australia, so their perspective and roles are not well understood. Aim To explore pharmacists' and other health professionals' perspectives of the roles of informatics pharmacists within interprofessional teams in Australian health care. Method This study used semi‐structured interviews with experts in pharmacy and/or informatics. They were recruited using convenience sampling and snowballing. The interviews were audio‐recorded and transcribed and analysed using inductive thematic techniques to identify major themes. Ethical approval was received from the local institutional Human Research Ethics Committee (Approval No: 2020000069). Results The process of inductive thematic analysis was used to analyse the interview transcriptions of 11 participants. Six themes were identified: (1) a promising future for the informatics pharmacists, (2) education, (3) specific skills, (4) scope of informatics role, (5) impacts, and (6) barriers. Participants described the career of informatics pharmacists as an emerging specialty in today's healthcare systems. The roles of informatics pharmacists in Australian health care are described together with the skills and knowledge required for these roles. Conclusion A key role of informatics pharmacists is to facilitate the appropriate use of digital systems to prevent medication errors and improve patients' safety. While international experience has shown the potential scope for an informatics pharmacist, this research shows the use of informatics pharmacists in Australia is in its infancy.

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The roles and perspectives of an informatics pharmacist practicing in the Australian healthcare setting: a qualitative study

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Snoswell

Banks

et al. 2023

Pharmacy Practice and Res

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“…, 2020), operational (Heshmat et al. , 2018), administrative (Chalmers et al. , 2018) and strategic (Zor and Çebi, 2018) analysis and insights needed to make crucial decisions (Raghupathi and Raghupathi, 2014).…”

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“…Organizations adopt HA, owing to its potential to create value in process improvement, patient care and clinical outcomes (Cortada et al, 2012;Raghupathi and Raghupathi, 2014;Ward et al, 2014). HA overlays the volume, velocity and variety of data created by the other HIT systems, to provide clinical (Hoque Tania et al, 2020), operational (Heshmat et al, 2018), administrative (Chalmers et al, 2018) and strategic (Zor and Çebi, 2018) analysis and insights needed to make crucial decisions (Raghupathi and Raghupathi, 2014). The analytical approaches include statistical, contextual, quantitative, predictive and cognitive models (Cortada et al, 2012;Ward et al, 2014).…”

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Assessing organizational health-analytics readiness: artifacts based on elaborated action design method

Venkatraman

Sundarraj

2022

JEIM

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PurposeWhile the adoption of health-analytics (HA) is expanding, not every healthcare organization understands the factors impacting its readiness for HA. An assessment of HA-readiness helps guide organizational strategy and the realization of business value. Past research on HA has not included a comprehensive set of readiness-factors and assessment methods. This study’s objective is to design artifacts to assess the HA-readiness of hospitals.Design/methodology/approachThe information-systems (IS) theory and methodology entail the iterative Elaborated Action Design Research (EADR)method, combined with cross-sectional field studies involving 14 healthcare organizations and 27 participants. The researchers determine factors and leverage multi-criteria decision-making techniques to assess HA-readiness.FindingsThe artifacts emerging from this research include: (1) a map of readiness factors, (2) multi-criteria decision-making techniques that assess the readiness levels on the factors, the varying levels of factor-importance and the inter-factor relationships and (3) an instantiated system. The in-situ evaluation shows how these artifacts can provide insights and strategic direction to an organization through collective knowledge from stakeholders.Originality/valueThis study finds new factors influencing HA-readiness, validates the well-known and details their industry-specific nuances. The methods used in this research yield a well-rounded HA readiness-assessment (HARA) approach and offer practical insights to hospitals.

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Exploring health-analytics adoption in indian private healthcare organizations: An institutional-theoretic perspective

Venkatraman

Sundarraj

Seethamraju

2022

Information and Organization

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Pharmacy informatics in multihospital health systems: Opportunities and challenges

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

The roles and perspectives of an informatics pharmacist practicing in the Australian healthcare setting: a qualitative study

The roles and perspectives of an informatics pharmacist practicing in the Australian healthcare setting: a qualitative study

Assessing organizational health-analytics readiness: artifacts based on elaborated action design method

Exploring health-analytics adoption in indian private healthcare organizations: An institutional-theoretic perspective

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