The PGY1 pharmacy informatics rotation is a 6-week core experience that exposes residents to the evolution of organizations’ medication-use systems by applying pharmacy informatics principles, standards, and best practices. Residents will gain basic understanding of the language and concepts of information technology (IT) thereby equipping the resident to function in the interdisciplinary environment of informatics project teams to advance the professional duties and responsibilities of a pharmacy informatics specialist.
The informatics department at Nemours plays a critical role in providing clinical informatics expertise to support the Nemours strategy. Activities include participating in scholarly clinical informatics knowledge exchange, supporting clinical research and quality improvement, advancing clinical best practices guided by domain experts, and developing user competencies of clinical applications. An important component of the department’s function is to partner with IS to ensure an environment that enables clinical applications to perform optimally.
Pharmacists have unique, comprehensive knowledge about safe and effective use of medications. More importantly, pharmacists understand core pharmacy operations and have developed expertise in end-to-end medication-use management, including communication with other information systems. Pharmacists provide expertise to effectively translate and seamlessly communicate the language of medication use across the continuum of care. They can interpret and implement requirements to ensure safe and comprehensive medication order communication. An experienced pharmacist is skilled in the use of electronic medication-order entry systems and has knowledge of human factor issues (e.g., interpretation of ambiguous clinical data) and development of interfaces to disparate applications and systems.