INFORMATICS PHARMACISTS HELATH AND PHARMACEUTICAL CARE

Informatic Pharmacist

- Can analyze pharmacy practice from an analytical design perspective.
- Can analyze health informatics technologies from a clinical/operational perspective.
- Can look out both the “big picture” and individual details and processes.

- Strong understanding of pharmacy practice
- Knowledgeable about the medication use process
- Knowledgeable about information systems, healthcare technology and automation
- Basic understanding of database design and function
- Current with relevant standards, regulations, and initiatives
- Ability to anticipate future needs and challenges
- Ability to think about the “end user”
- Ability to teach and guide others
- Communication skills
- Project management skills
- Technology oriented
- Innovative
- Analytical

COMPETENCIES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF INFORMATIC PHARMACIST

- Ensure patient safety
- Provide guidance and leadership for all technology initiatives that support medication use
- Customized and tailor health information systems and technology to the needs of practice
- Serve as liaison between pharmacy and other departments
- Provide education to healthcare professionals and managers
- Serve as a research for hospital staff
- Provide recommendations regarding vendor selection

ROLE OF AN INFORMATICS PHARMACISTS

Drug Information Center

- It is an area separated from the pharmacy dedicated to providing drug information.
- It is the source of selected comprehensive drug information for staff physicians and other health professionals to evaluate and compare drugs.

Health

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Health Education

- Teaching, advice, and provision and intervention of healthy living multi faceted
- Covers biological understanding, body navigation of healthcare services and the influence of social, political, environmental factors.

Health Promotion

- Incorporates all measures deliberately designed to promote health in actual disease
- includes increasing individual knowledge of the function of the body and ways in preventing illness, raising competence including health care system and raising awareness that influence political and environmental factors that influence health

Medical/ Preventive
Behavioral Change
Educational
Empowerment
Social Change

PHARMACEUTICAL CARE

- Focuses on activities which aims to reduce morbidity and premature mortality
- Seeks to increase medical interventions which will prevent ill - health and premature death

Aims of Medical/ Preventive

Immunizations and Screening

Methods of Medical/ Preventive

Reduction in disease rates and associated mortality (vaccinations)

Evaluation of Medical/ Preventive

Primary
Secondary
Tertiary

Three Levels of Prevention

Primary Prevention

- seeks to avoid onset of ill - health by the detection of high risk groups and the and counseling.
Ex: Vaccination

Secondary Prevention (Early Detection)

- Seek to shorten episodes of illness and prevent the progression of ill - health through early diagnosis and treatment.
Ex: Cancer Screening

Tertiary Prevention

- Seeks to limit disability or complications arising from an irreversible condition (manage the disease impact)
Ex: Rehab

- Encourage individuals to adopt healthy lifestyle choices, which are seen as the key to improved health .
- It is then possible to assume that people can make real improvement to their health by choosing to change their lifestyle.

Aims of Behavioral Change

Patient education and advice through one-on-one counseling.

Methods of Behavioral Change

Change in Behavior

Evaluation of Behavioral Change

- Provide knowledge and information and to develop necessary skill so that people can make informal choice about their behavior.
- It is distinguished from behaviour approach in that it does not set out to persuade or motivate change in particular direction.
- By increasing knowledge,there will be a change in the attitudes which may lead to changed behavior.

Aims of Educational

Provision of leaflets and booklets, visual displays, mass media campaigns or one - on one advices

Methods of Educational

Lifestyle Modification

Evaluation of Educational

- Helps people to identify their own concerns and gain skills and confidence.
- Client centered approach aimed at increasing people's control over their own lives.

Aims of Empowerment

- Personal counseling lead client to focus on personal development.
- Community development

Methods of Empowerment

Problematic, partly because the process of empowerment and networking is typically a long process.

Evaluation of Empowerment

Bring out changes in the physical , social and economic environment which will have the effect of promoting health.

Aims of Social Change

Development of Arranged Policy and Advocacy

Methods of Social Change

Outcomes: Organizational changes which promotes health .

Evaluation of Social Change