Summary
The Informatics Pharmacist Specialist uses knowledge of information technology (IT), automation systems and medication-use process to improve patient care by supporting technologies that lead to safer, more cost-effective medication use. This role includes automation and technology systems management, management of projects, and training and education. The Informatics Pharmacist Specialist supports pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare team members as the resource for requests related to pharmacy system changes. The position requires thorough knowledge of pharmacy practice, pharmacy automation, clinical information systems, and pharmacy computer systems.Job Description:
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Works with Manger of Pharmacy Automation and other BH leaders to implement, integrate, and maintain evidence-based and regulatory standards of clinical/operational pharmacy services.
- Provides onsite professional consultative oversight to the maintenance, upgrading, evaluation, and implementation of pharmacy computer software systems and automation.
- Supports pharmacy information software applications and pharmacy automation.
- Manages and leads the pharmacy’s informatics and technology/automation enhancement initiatives:
- Coordinates and manages the implications of automation and technology associated with the medication use process.
- Ensures integration, standardization and maintenance of pharmacy technology/automation systems.
- Analyzes systems and operations involved with medication storage, preparation, and distribution to ensure cost-effective and optimal delivery of medication therapy.
Minimum & Preferred Requirements:
- Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy
- Kentucky Board of Pharmacy and Indiana Board of Pharmacy license or willing and eligible to achieve within 12 months of hire.
- Kentucky license must specify that they are a preceptor.
- At least 2 years hospital pharmacy experience (or similar experience) required.
- Pharmacy automation experience preferred.
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-2 residency in Pharmacy Informatics (or similar experience) preferred.
- Proficiency with Omnicell/Parata, EPIC, and other pharmacy related technologies preferred.
Skills Required
- Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy
- Kentucky Board of Pharmacy and Indiana Board of Pharmacy license or willing to achieve within 12 months of hire
- At least 2 years hospital pharmacy experience
- Pharmacy automation experience
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-2 residency in Pharmacy Informatics
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
