About the role
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.
Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 860 physicians and more than 950 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Role Description
Baptist Health is looking for a System Informatics Pharmacist Specialist to join our Central Pharmacy Team! This is a remote opportunity for candidates residing in KY or IN, other states may be considered.
The Informatics Pharmacist Specialist uses knowledge of information technology (IT) systems and medication use process to improve patient care by supporting technologies that lead to safer, more cost-effective medication use.
This role includes automation and technology systems management, management of projects, and training and education. The Informatics Pharmacist Specialist supports pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare team members as the resource for requests related to pharmacy system changes. The position requires thorough knowledge of pharmacy practice, pharmacy automation, clinical information systems, and pharmacy computer systems.
Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy.
- Kentucky Board of Pharmacy and Indiana Board of Pharmacy license or willing and eligible to achieve within 12 months of hire, Kentucky license must specify that they are a preceptor.
- 2+ years hospital pharmacy experience (or similar experience) required.
- Pharmacy automation experience preferred.
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-2 residency in Pharmacy Informatics (or similar experience) preferred.
- Proficiency with Omnicell/Parata, EPIC, and other pharmacy related technologies preferred.
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