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This MP3 podcast features Chad Hardy (aka pillguy) from Harris County, Andy Seger from Partners Healthcare/Brigham & Womens Hospital and John Poikonen via UMass Mem Med Ctr in a candid and sometimes very open discussion on the the Am Soc of Health System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting that took place in Orlando, FL in December of 2008. Enjoy.

Details on the session discussed can be found here:
http://www.ashp.org/DocLibrary/Midyear08/MCMDailyProgram.aspx

The session materials can obtained if you attended (Uh, er, or know someone that did) you can get the materials and handouts for free (otherwise there is an outrageous charge):
http://www.softconference.com/ashp/slist.asp?C=1835

Some of the session discussed include:

BCMA in 2008: Trends, Regulations, and Innovations
http://www.softconference.com/ashp/sessionDetail.asp?SID=114436
Robert Christiansen, RPh, MBA, Marketing and Business Manager, Pharmacy Solutions, Siemens Medical Solutions
Ashley Dalton, Pharm D, Clinical Pharmacist and Assistant Clinical Professor UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy, UCSD Medical Center - Thornton Hospital
Janice Dunsavage, RPh, MAS, Director of Pharmacy, Pinnacle Health System
Brian George, Pharm D, Assistant Director of Pharmacy Services, MedCentral Health System
Karl Gumpper, RPh, BCPS, Director, Section of Pharmacy Informatics & Technology, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Rikin Mehta

Information Technology and the Pharmacy Department: Collaboration or Conflict?
http://www.softconference.com/ashp/sessionDetail.asp?SID=114420
John Poikonen, PharmD, Clinical Informatics Director, UMass Memorial Healthcare
George Brenckle PhD is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of UMass Memorial Healthcare, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Christopher Fortier, PharmD, Manager, Pharmacy Support Services, Medical University of South Carolina
Steve Margolis, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Orlando Regional Healthcare

Summary of MIPI for July 2010

-Free flowing review of Pharmacy informatics issues
-Mention MU for another podcast from a PI perspective
-Review of ASHP meeting from a Informatics/Twitter POV
-NEJM Study by Eric Poon.
-Eric Poon Interview

BPOC/BCMA
-A recent trifecta for bar-coding
-Scanning difficulties with certain barcodes
-Cool Technology for Pharmacy – NDC Translator
-More BCMA Junk Science, this time from ASHP
--Web 2.0 / Social Media--
-personal-vesus-professional-social-media-wheres-line
-Using the big boys to search for consumer health information

--Definition confusion with Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0
--Duty to warn in the age of social media by Kevin Clauson

CPOE
-CPOE - Giving it some thought
-Twenty-one criteria for a successful CPOE adoption
-Report Urges Hospitals To Test Error Detection in CPOE Tools - iHealthBeat

Misc
-TEDMED2010
-Lexi-CALC now available for Android | Jerry Fahrni
-RxCalc 1.1 now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch
-Pharmacy Schools and Informatic Leadership