What is the future of pharmacy informatics as a career choice?

Submitted by JFahrni on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 10:24

Over the weekend I spent a little time looking at trends in pharmacy and technology. As expected the healthcare technology market is expanding rapidly and this expansion is creating a need for pharmacists with technology know-how. To prove my point I created a job trends graph from indeed.com using the following search criteria: "pharmacy informatics", "clinical pharmacist" and "director of pharmacy". As expected the search trends for "clinical pharmacist" and "director of pharmacy" are relatively flat, but the trend line for "pharmacy informatics" is striking. It looks like a new pharmacy career path is born.

Great info

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 16:13.

Nice information Jerry. I might be asking your permission to use this, in the near future, for trying to illustrate the point to pharmacy students.

Using the graph

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 10:04.

Hi Anonymous - Feel free to use the graph however you see fit. Just remember where saw it first. ;-)

All credit to J.Fahrni

Submitted by jlassiter on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 12:13.

Sorry Jerry the "anon" comment was me. I forgot to login before posting! :-)

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Need to get the work out

Submitted by John Poikonen on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 05:18.

This is an amazing graph! We need to think about getting the word out to students!