At least two medical schools are requiring iPads for incoming students
(Stanford and UCI). To my knowledge and a Google search has revealed
that no pharmacy school requires an iPad (yet).
Now this interesting post by KevinMD, a noted physician blogger, with
this editorial with lots of comments. The comments are the best part, btw.
The summary of their code of conduct:
Sabine is actively collecting the feedbacks and responses about the code of conduct.
What do you think?
Wondering if these rules also make sense for conduct on online activities when speaking "about" your employer in general? Reposted from http://scienceroll.com/2010/08/18/roche-social-media-code-of-conduct-pharma-2...
Another gem from Kevin! Great use of pictures and ARS! Death by Powerpoint is up next for review.
Just curious if HIT is part of the new Ambulatory Pharmacy Certification? The concepts talked about in this article would apply to any of the clinical specialty BCPS's. Anyone know these concepts are addressed in the certification?
Health IT to Be Part of Specialist Certification
Privacy, professionalism and Facebook: a dilemma for young doctors
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Medical Education 2010: 44: 805–813
Objectives This study aimed to examine the nature and extent of use of the social networking service Facebook by young medical graduates, and their utilisation of privacy options.
Methods We carried out a cross-sectional survey of the use of Facebook by recent medical graduates, accessing material potentially available to a wider public. Data were then categorised and analysed. Survey subjects were 338 doctors who had graduated from the University of Otago in 2006 and 2007 and were registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand. Main outcome measures were Facebook membership, utilisation of privacy options, and the nature and extent of the material revealed.
Results A total of 220 (65%) graduates had Facebook accounts; 138 (63%) of these had activated their privacy options, restricting their information to ‘Friends’. Of the remaining 82 accounts that were more publicly available, 30 (37%) revealed users’ sexual orientation, 13 (16%) revealed their religious views, 35 (43%) indicated their relationship status, 38 (46%) showed photographs of the users drinking alcohol, eight (10%) showed images of the users intoxicated and 37 (45%) showed photographs of the users engaged in healthy behaviours. A total of 54 (66%) members had used their accounts within the last week, indicating active use.
I have been drowning in drug allergy data and analysis lately. Here is an interesting tidbit from 3 years of data -- Women reported >2/3 (69%) of the allergies and Men only ~1/3 (31%). Draw your own conclusions....
A quick Google search reveals: "Females were also 2.6 times more likely than males to report multiple drug allergies," There have also been previous reports of studies that found female sex to be a risk factor for adverse drug reactions in general." SOURCE: Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, July 2007. [I am leaving this one alone]
In discussing the CCHIT criteria with a vendor friend of mind some real “head scratchers” came up. These examples point out the problem with certification or perhaps the lack of clinical skills at CCHIT.
The first was Inpatient script # 1.47 “in order entry, “Search for drug by therapeutic class catecholamines.”
Second, Inpatient script # 1.39 “System identifies that multiple medications from the same therapeutic class (ibuprofen and acetaminophen) have been ordered and informs the user”
HIT Standards-Implementation Specs-Certification for EHR.PDF (669 KB)
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) release the final version of meaningful use today. I suspect that this will generate lots of blog posts and discussion.
Study Findings
The simulations found that the hospitals' CPOE systems on average failed to detect half of the routine medication orders and one-third of potentially fatal orders.
http://www.leapfroggroup.org/media/file/CPOEEvaluationToolResultsReport.pdf
Houston, we have a problem...
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Anyone going to this? Check out the fantastic videos from TEDMED2009. Wonderful stuff. http://scienceroll.com/2009/11/15/tedmed-2009-summary/
The depth and breath of these speakers makes Connie Chung (Keynote at ASHP 2010 meeting) look like, well.... Connie Chung and the organizers of this pharmacy conference seem a bit dim.
A comment was posted on an old blog site calling for participation in a new book, fyi.
This brought up the issue of name definitions between Pharmacoinformatics versus Pharmacy Informatics. This is a repost of some thoughts.
Here are some graphical representations. First is informatics defined by Ted Shortliffe.

This is an adaptation for pharmacy
Decent Twitter 101 slide deck.
Posted via web from RxDoc.Org
Pharmacy informatics will be one of the sectors that will be profoundly affected by genomics. So I really like this quote:
"As genomics metastasizes, every business model for every health care sector will be affected, some profoundly". -- Rick Carlson Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Pg 43. 2008
So an updated Genomic Medicine Primer in yesterdays NEJM that is free should be a nice read.
Genomic Medicine — An Updated Primer W.G. Feero and Others Free Full Text