• Survey Investigates Role of Pharmacy in Technology Use in Hospitals
• Effect of Computer Order Entry on Prevention of Serious Medication Errors in Hospitalized Children
• Characteristics of Effective Electronic Mail Messages Distributed to Healthcare Professionals in a Hospital Setting
• Exchange of Computable Patient Data between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD)
• Clinton Comes Out on Top for Health IT Advocacy, Survey Finds
• Does Your Organization View IT as an Integral Component for Improving Patient Care?
• Despite broad support, major hurdles impede national health care IT system
• Attending unintended transformations of health care infrastructure
• E-Prescribing: a common-sense prescription for improving healthcare for all Americans

• The Current State of Pharmacy Informatics Education in Professional Programs at US Colleges of Pharmacy
• A Comparison of Medical and Pharmacy Informatics Curricula
• Excerpt from ACCREDITATION STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES FOR THE PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM IN PHARMACY LEADING TO THE DOCTOR OF PHARMACY DEGREE ADOPTED: JANUARY 15, 2006
• Standard No. 12: Professional Competencies and Outcome Expectations
• REVISED Informatics Competency Statements 2007 (Terry Seaton)*

Monthly Installment of Pharmacy Informatics (MiPI) #5

John Poikonen, PharmD, UMass Memorial Medical Center
Frederick Albright, MS, PhD University of Utah
Sandra Mitchell, MS, Johns Hopkins Medical Center
Andrew Seger, PharmD, Partners Health Care System

Topics discussed include:

• Personal Health Records comment on the recent ASHP news release
• Inadequate CDS in Pharmacy Systems
• eRx Report to Congress
• Health Affairs report on eRx
• Some leaders of the health information technology movement are describing the current period as a timeout in the push for electronic health records and other elements of a paperless health care system.
• Long-Range Vision for the Pharmacy Work Force in Hospitals and Health Systems
  "Technology will not eliminate pharmacy work-force shortages in hospitals and health systems. Moreover, the use of technology will remain incomplete and nonstandardized (an important safety issue in itself) for some time."

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