How Informatics Will Change the Future of Pharmacy
I recently gave a presentation at the Nova Southeastern University 21st Annual Contemporary Pharmacy Issues program. The slide deck for the presentation can be viewed below.
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The future is developing today, tomorrow, next week, month, ...
Most fascinating. It is time to promulgate such futures and others, making the appropriate futures real/instantiated ("by informed natural selection?"). One place to start (some schools have): advancing pharmacy education with informatics, as a separate course (pharmacoinformatics) and/or integrated into clinical courses (e.g., applied informatics). Professionals in the field also benefit with informatics education/training.
[All, I am getting on a soap box in the below -- so no need to read further if you don't like or approve of soap-boxing.]
Without education in informatics and IT, how can pharmacy catch up to nursing, medicine, dentistry, and the business professions (take a look at the business schools and their advanced training w/ office suite software and application in the real world, to BS/BA to graduate degrees in IT/Information systems). Nursing, Medicine, and Business professions also have informatics graduate programs for their professional and students to apply and attend, to advance their clinical or business training with informatics or focusing solely as an informaticist in their primary fields. Does pharmacy have such opportunities? Where will the practice of pharmacy be in the future? Kevin Clauson offers us possibilities. Are we up to the challenges of informed possibilities to make these real with the current pharmacy education systems for students and professionals in the field? Or will pharmacy continue to fall behind the other healthcare professions that are leading the way in informatics and healthcare?
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Where is the slide on flying cars?
Instead of going for shock value it might be more valuable to focus on the technology and challenges we will be facing in the next 5 years. Smart pills, pervasive genomic profiling, and EMR touch interfaces out of CSI Miami are not necessarily something we will be dealing with soon.
Flying cars to make an appearance in the sequel
The intent was not to limit the topics to only 'How Informatics Will Change the *Immediate* Future', so I tried to blend in examples of intermediate-term initiatives like those you mentioned as well as things that are already here like PHRs, telepharmacy, and mHealth. Some of the things I mentioned have actually been around over 10 years (e.g., pharmacy kiosks), but are still not widely known and fit in the presentation thematically.
Would love a video as well.
Would love a video as well. Great slides.
Awesome slide set...
I agree, this is a great set of slides. I know Kevin was supposed to give the presentation on Saturday. I'd like to know how it was received. I hope they recorded it and if so we need the video.
PPT for the ages
Great presentation. This needs to go in a time capsule and revisited 50 years from now. Hope that Kevin and I can have a beer then to review.
Mixed response
Hey guys - thanks for the comments...and I am definitely on board with the time capsule/beer plan. The presentation was not recorded and I didn't get a chance to do a slidecast for it.
My presentation was part of a 2-day CE conference for pharmacists and was the only informatics-related topic in the program. It was surrounded by some pretty cool stuff on biosimilars, psychotropics, integrative medicine, etc. Carsten always puts together really good programs IMHO. However, since informatics wasn't an area of emphasis, the onus was on me to make it relevant and interesting to everyone.
I was told after that fact that two segments really 'got it'. One group got it from the start and another took a bit to see where I was going. In retrospect, I probably should have front-loaded the preso with a bit more to show them where I was going to account for how diverse the audience was. So it was kind of a mixed response, but I did get a lot of really good questions from individuals afterwards - which is always an encouraging sign.