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Here is a great podcast and site on Infections Diseases.  Mark Crislip, MD does a great job with a review of the literature and delivery of the latest in infectious disease.
His Blog is Rubor, Dolor, Calor, Tumor.  http://blogs.medscape.com/rdct

Enjoy.

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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

American Medical Informatics Association Annual Meeting 2008
From a Pharmacy and Pharmacoinformatics Perspective
http://symposium2008.amia.org/
November 8-12, 2008 Washington DC

Podcast Panel

John Poikonen
Clinical Informatics Director
UMass Memorial Health Care

Jennifer Boehne
Pharmacy Resident
University of Minnesota

Jim Carpenter
Decision Support Pharmacist
Providence Health Care
Portland, OR

Derrick Albright
College of Pharmacy
University of Utah

Links to information mentioned in the Podcast
http://archimedesmodel.com/index.html
http://healthit.ahrq.gov/
http://oninformatics.com/
http://oninformatics.com/?p=107 Video: When H.I.T. Attacks - A Panel Discussion of a Fictional Clinical Information Systems Failure Scenario: H.I.T. or Miss

Some of the sessions discussed included
S02 - Broad-based Initiatives for Clinical Decision Support
S11 - National Health IT Agenda: The Next Generation
S19 - Adverse Drug Events
S25 - Informatics as a Health Profession and AMIA as Its Home
S37 - Web 2.0 and Clinical Decision Support
S48 - Designing Technology for Safer Patient Care
S52 - New Perspectives from the Health Information Community
S71 - Shared Resources
S76 - The Digital Patient Record Certification
S85 - Towards a Rigorous Evidence Base for Health Informatics