Jerry Fahrni, Pharm. D.
Product Manager

This blog will focus on pharmacy automation in Acute Care. My areas of interest include: Pharmacy technology and automation, mobile health care, eHealth, personal health records, and social media. I am curious about the best use of technologies to improve pharmacy and create a more patient centric practice model.

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The role of the pharmacy technician in Pharmacy IT

March 7, 2011

I’ve been following a conversation on LinkedIn talking about the difficulties associated with filling clinical IT roles. The discussion is based on an article at FierceHealthIT. One of the items of discussion is the use of pharmacy technicians to complement the … Read More »

Interoperability and what it means to healthcare

March 2, 2011

EHR Bloggers: “Interoperability: the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). The term is often used in a technical or engineering sense, taking into account various factors such as political (aka ONC) social and organizational factors that … Read More »

Why we need bar-code medication administration (BCMA)

February 28, 2011

Patient safety has been a growing concern in healthcare since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published their now infamous “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System“ report in November 1999.1 The report basically states that between 45,000 … Read More »

The Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative and technology

February 23, 2011

I’m sure most, if not all of you have heard about The Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI). It’s basically a joint project between ASHP and the ASHP Foundation designed to change the way pharmacists practice. Let’s face it, pharmacy practice … Read More »

Managing central pharmacy workflow

February 21, 2011

The February 1, 2011 issue of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP) is chock-full of great articles, but one in particular caught my attention. Most pharmacists I know head straight for the “clinical articles” or therapeutics information in the … Read More »

Healthcare to take advantage of IBM Watson technology

February 18, 2011

I’m sure that everyone has heard of IBW’s Watson, the computer that recently competed and won ‘Jeopardy!”. It appears that people in healthcare have taken notice as well as IBM has licensed access to the Watson technology to Nuance Communications. Read More »