Coordinator, Pharmacy Clinical Informatics

West Park Healthcare Centre helps patients get their lives back by providing specialized rehabilitative and complex care after a life‐altering illness or injury such as lung disease, amputation, stroke, and traumatic musculoskeletal injuries.

West Park is building a new hospital and transforming its 27-acre site into an integrated campus of care, enabling the hospital to evolve its rehabilitative programs to meet Ontario’s future healthcare needs.

***Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy
- Undergraduate degree or college diploma in Computer Science, Health Informatics, or equivalent preferred
- Licensed by the Ontario College of Pharmacists
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in hospital pharmacy practice is required
- Demonstrated advanced proficiency with BDM Pharmacy System
- Demonstrated proficiency with Harris Medication Order Entry System
- Participation in clinical and organizational policy formulation and decision-making, especially as it relates to technology
- Synthesizes data, information, and knowledge to clarify informatics issues or problems
- Analyzes multiple approaches/solutions to the informatics issue or problem
- Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, costs, and impact in conducting informatics practice
- Provides suggestions for use of computer technology to improve patient safety and optimize departmental goals.
- Ability to work with people from different disciplines and varying degrees of technical experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Previous experience with BDM Pharmacy System and the Harris Medication Order Entry System preferred
- Evidence of satisfactory attendance record
- Ability to work in a manner that exemplifies the centre’s core values and helps patients_ get their life back_
- Should be aware of conditions and measures that may affect the safety of patients, residents, students, employees, volunteers, physicians and visitors

***Accountabilities**:

- Maintain expert knowledge of the BDM pharmacy system and working knowledge of the Harris Medication Order Entry System
- Ensure the BDM pharmacy system and the electronic medication order entry system supports safe medication practice
- Work with pharmacy staff to coordinate requests for new enhancements to the pharmacy system functionality
- Liaise with BDM technical support to ensure outstanding problems are resolved quickly and effectively and document support calls and prioritize BDM system issues
- Coordinates and evaluates all pharmacy staff requests for changes and additions to the current medication order entry system builds based on the following parameters:

- Patient safety
- Clinical review of dose and administration
- Intravenous drug compatibility
- Drug interactions
- Specials drug administration considerations
- Standard Medication Administration Time Policy requirements
- Monitor data integrity and system interfaces
- Identifies, assesses and evaluates the impact of all medication incidents and hazards related to the pharmacy BDM and electronic medication order entry systems and carries out system improvement plans as necessary
- Assists with the implementation of Automated Dispensing Units and Bar Code Medication Administration hospital wide
- Coordinates any in-service training required for pharmacists with each BDM and electronic medication system database roll
- Implements any recommendations from the Institute for Safe Medication Practice (ISMP) to prevent potential drug-related issues in the pharmacy BDM and electronic medication order entry systems
- Coordinate activities with Information Technology to ensure that the electronic medication order entry system is up to date and in accordance with the formulary and the pharmacy services
- After hours support as required for testing and implementation of system enhancements
- Participate in departmental and hospital committees as assigned by the pharmacy manager
- Run BDM reports for pharmacy and other departments
- Assist the Clinical Pharmacist in processing the Three Month Medication Review
- Assist in monitoring medication inventory levels
- Ensure BDM pharmacy system forms and labels are in compliance with the Ontario College of Pharmacists and Accreditation Canada standards of practice
- Participate in pharmacist on-call rotation
- Other duties and responsibilities consistent with job classification
- Be aware of conditions and measures that may affect the safety of patient, residents, students, employees, volunteers, physicians, and visitors including:

- Compliance with the safety standards of the hospital and applicable legislation
- Identification and prevention of safety issues and problems
- Taking corrective action, where possible

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