Pharmacy Informatics Collaborative

The purpose of the RWJBarnabas Health Pharmacy Enterprise Informatics Collaborative is to standardize, translate and implement clinical and operational technology initiatives affecting medications throughout the healthcare system.

The collaboration shares best practices and will bring forth pharmacy informatics recommendations
to the applicable Pharmacy Enterprise Councils for approval.

Our Goal

To ensure that any medication-related technologies across the healthcare continuum are clinically, financially and operationally leveraged to current quality standards, clinical guidelines and regulations and optimized to improve patient care, population health outcomes and systems interoperability.

Membership

Chair: Corporate Director of Pharmacy Systems Integration
Members: Director of Pharmacy Services and Assistant Director of Operations from the Acute Care Service Lines, Director of RWJBarnabas Health Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy Services, Senior Pharmacy Systems Analyst/IT Pharmacists/RN/pharmacy biller/analysts/coordinators from the Acute Care Service Lines, Senior Pharmacy Reimbursement Specialist, Pharmacy Billing Specialist, Corporate Systems Integration Pharmacist, Corporate 340B Director and 340B Analysts.

Meetings

The Pharmacy Informatics Collaborative shall meet bi-monthly or as otherwise deemed necessary by the Chair, but not less than quarterly.

How We Accomplish Our Goals

The Pharmacy Informatics Collaborative accomplishes our objectives by leveraging automation and technology resources to support continuing compliance and patient safety. The resources include but are not limited to the enterprise clinical information systems (ECIS), smart infusion pump software, automated dispensing cabinets, inventory management software, drug diversion analytics, barcode label standardization & maintenance, 340B software, financial, business intelligence and healthcare analytics reporting tools.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Proactively identifies operational efficiencies to fulfill our purpose and mission
• Optimizes automated dispensing cabinets and medication access functionality and inventory management
• Standardizes formulary and charge description master (CDM) request process for additions, deletions and changes
• Provides pharmacy informatics expertise and recommendations on existing and new technologies
• Develops and implements system-wide medication charge reconciliation initiatives

Pharmacy Informatics Collaborative Membership