Pharmacy Informatics Division
Purpose Statement
The purpose of the Pharmacy Informatics Division is to evaluate, integrate,
standardize and build medication requests affecting our clinical information
systems and technologies.
Mission Statement
The mission of the division is to ensure that any medications built within
the clinical systems are accurate, standardized and compliant with quality
standards, regulatory and accreditation bodies.
Who We Are
The team is headed by the Chief Medical Informatics Officer, co-led by
the Vice President of Clinical and Ancillary Applications (Enterprise
Clinical Information Systems) and the Corporate Director of Pharmacy Systems
Integration (Corporate Pharmacy) and supported by the Director of Pharmacy
Informatics, Pharmacists and Pharmacy Analysts. All supportive team members
have a background as a pharmacist or pharmacy technician.
How We Accomplish Our Mission
Our team accomplishes our objectives by leveraging and optimizing functionality
of the enterprise clinical information systems including but not limited
to creating and modifying medication orderables, order sentences, order
sets, alerts, formulary maintenance and systems validation. We work in
partnership with departments across the acute care service lines and integrated
service lines to ensure standardization, optimization and quality assurance.
Duties/Responsibilities
The Pharmacy Informatics Division operates under a hybrid structure within
the Corporate Pharmacy and Enterprise Clinical Information Systems (ECIS)
departments. The division’s duties and responsibilities are established
by affiliate needs as well as system-wide strategies.
- Recommends enhancements to improve clinical patient safety and operational
efficiencies
- Maintains and updates formulary in clinical and pharmacy information systems
- Continuously upkeeps formulary build in the automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs)
- Creates medication-related data analytics tools to identify areas of opportunity
- Ensures data exchanges and downstream feeds are functioning appropriately
- Communicates and educates affiliate pharmacy departments on new initiatives
or changes to ECIS systems
Pharmacy Informatics Division Leadership
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Stephen O’Mahony, MD, FACP
Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer at RWJBarnabas Health
Barbara Boelter, RN, MHA
Vice President of Clinical and Ancillary Applications at RWJBarnabas Health
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Ellen Secaras, RPh
Corporate Director of Pharmacy Systems Integration at RWJBarnabas Health
Richard Hilway, RPh
Director, Pharmacy Informatics Enterprise Clinical Information Systems
at RWJBarnabas Health
Pharmacy Informatics Division Team
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Alfredo Balleras, RPh
CIS Pharmacy Analyst at RWJBarnabas Health
Larry Burnstein, B.A.
CIS Pharmacy Analyst at RWJBarnabas Health
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Melissa Crossen, PharmD, BCPS
CIS Pharmacy Systems Administrator at RWJBarnabas Health
Steven DePaolo, RPh
Clinical Pharmacy Analyst at RWJBarnabas Health
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Samuel Gerena, PharmD, MPH
IT & S Clinical Pharmacist at RWJBarnabas Health
Steven Kravetz, PharmD
Pharmacist, Enterprise Clinical Information Systems at RWJBarnabas Health
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Fred Penn, RPh
Clinical Information Systems Pharmacist at RWJBarnabas Health
Gary Riley, RPh
Clinical Analyst Pharmacist at RWJBarnabas Health
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Victoria Zihmer, PharmD
Clinical Information Systems Pharmacy Analyst at RWJBarnabas Health
