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Good afternoon, An article in the November 1st edition of AJHP, "Use of pharmacy informatics resources by clinical pharmacy services in acute care hospitals," surveyed staff pharmacists’ understanding of information technology, and departmental utilization of pharmacy informatics. From the article: "The majority of facilities used clinical-rules engines for renal dosing (68%) and pharmacokinetics monitoring (56%); however, only 24% used antibiotic-pathogen matching-rules engines." Answer this week's poll: Does your hospital pharmacy use clinical-rules engines? More from AJHP: "These rules engines can substantially reduce the time spent on general chart review through automated screening for potential problems. In addition, the majority of respondents indicated that their use of pharmacy informatics was not optimal." We have found this to be true at many hospitals implementing Sentri7 as a clinical rules engine. They may already have rules/reports in place through their pharmacy system, but the use is not optimal. This was just the case at Lehigh Valley Health Network. Even with the great team of clinical pharmacists who performed a variety of clinical activities, the number of targeted initiatives they could manage was very low because so much time had to be focused on sifting through paper reports from their rules engine for issues to tackle. After implementation of Sentri7, the pharmacy team estimates a six-fold increase in the amount of targeted initiatives they could tackle each day. Plus their documentation of interventions in Quantifi showed nearly $250,000 in hard cost savings in the first six months! Read the full case study. Once your pharmacist time is freed up by the optimal use of clinical rule engines for renal dosing and pharmacokinetics monitoring, you can expand its use to address even more safety and quality issues throughout the hospital, like antimicrobial stewardship and the core measure initiatives we wrote on two weeks ago. Now onto the news! Stay well-informed, Team Pharmacy OneSource 
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