Pharmacist Informatics Specialist

Corewell Health$95K — $115K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy from an accredited College of Pharmacy
  • 2 years of hospital pharmacy experience or completion of an ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Practice Residency
  • Current Pharmacist License from the State of Michigan
  • Current Pharmacist Controlled Substance License from the State of Michigan
  • Preferred: Experience in inpatient and oncology settings, and pharmacy systems management

Responsibilities

  • Serve as pharmacy informatics expert resource to partner with clinical departments
  • Participate in medication and protocol approval processes, designing evidence-based tools
  • Organize and implement medication rules and alerts for healthcare professionals
  • Assess technology enhancements to optimize patient care services
  • Monitor and design the drug library for smart infusion pumps
  • Lead process improvement teams as pharmacy informatics expert
  • Support education and training for new technology implementations

Benefits

  • Flexible work locations across multiple regions (Grand Rapids, Southfield, St. Joseph)
  • Day shift hours, Monday to Friday, promoting work-life balance
  • Opportunities for collaboration with various clinical departments and professionals
  • Engaged in meaningful work that enhances patient safety and medication effectiveness
  • Involvement in informatics policy development and innovative pharmacy practices
Full Job Description

Open to hiring from our west (Grand Rapids), east (Southfield), or south (St. Joseph) regions.

Job Summary

Responsible for managing and directing the development and implementation of the informatics applications, tools, medication orderable, and decision support to enhance the safe and effective medication use process. Ensures consistency with organizational philosophy and goals, compliance with applicable administrative, clinical, and regulatory requirements. Partners with Pharmacy Management, DS, clinical analysts and DS pharmacists, Nursing Informatics, Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO), and System Pharmacy leaders in support of medication cycle and pharmacy systems development and implementation.

Essential Functions
  • Serves as the pharmacy informatics expert resource and partners with the Pharmacy department and other clinical and non-clinical departments. Networks within the System and the external Pharmacy profession to maintain clinical informatics expertise.
  • Participates in the medication and protocol approval process and designs and builds tools such as order sets, treatment plans, and therapy plans to ensure safe, effective and efficient evidence-based use of medications and other therapies.
  • Designs, organizes and implements effective and actionable medication rules and alerts for physicians and pharmacists.
  • Assesses areas where technology enhancements would promote more effective and efficient patient care services and develops appropriate solutions. Advises clinical operations on strategic direction for technology applications.
  • Designs, implements and monitors the drug library for smart infusion pumps. Collaborates with system Pharmacy leadership to ensure safe practices are maintained related to infusion pumps.
  • Supports process improvement teams as the pharmacy informatics expert related to medication use. Leads the pharmacy clinical informatics and works closely with nursing and prescriber clinical informatics teams involving key stake holders in decision making.
  • Plays active role in informatics policy and procedure development; software customization; upgrade planning, implementation, and testing; database management and mining.
  • Provides and supports education and training related to new technology or technology changes.

Qualifications

Required

  • Required Bachelor's Degree Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy
  • 2 years of relevant hospital pharmacy experience or an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Pharmacy Practice Residency
  • Pharmacist License from the State of Michigan
  • Pharmacist Controlled Substance License from the State of Michigan

Preferred

  • Experience working in an inpatient environment
  • Experience working in an oncology setting
  • Experience within institutional care, clinical pharmacy services and pharmacy systems management
  • Experience designing, configuring, and implementing vendor software

Primary Location

SITE - Corewell Health Place - 100 Corewell Drive NW - Grand Rapids

Department Name

EHR Meds And Infusion - Corporate

Employment Type

Full time

Shift

Day (United States of America)

Weekly Scheduled Hours

40

Hours of Work

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Days Worked

Monday to Friday

Weekend Frequency

N/A

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