| Brett Bailey, Pharm.D., senior medical informaticist with the Division of Scientific Informatics at UAMS Medical Middle, was lately named to the Worth Set Committee for the Pharmacy Well being Info Expertise (HIT) Collaborative.
Bailey, additionally an adjunct assistant professor within the Faculty of Pharmacy, was appointed by the American Affiliation of Schools of Pharmacy (AACP) and can function one among its representatives on the committee.
“Brett’s talent set is uniquely certified for service on this committee,” stated Amy Franks, Pharm.D., chair of the Division of Pharmacy Follow within the Faculty of Pharmacy. “He not solely has medical pharmacy experience but additionally real-life expertise in inhabitants well being administration and affected person outcomes evaluation. He is a wonderful option to contribute meaningfully to this committee and to signify the power and variety of pharmacy follow at UAMS.”
“I’m honored to signify UAMS and AACP on this committee,” Bailey stated. “I’m excited to start work with representatives from throughout the nation to evaluation and approve new nationwide coding and documentation requirements for pharmacy. This work will assist form our occupation and enhance digital well being system documentation general.”
The committee is answerable for vetting and approving billing and documentation codes in addition to worth units to be used in nationwide digital well being info exchanges for the pharmacy occupation. Worth units are lists of particular phrases and their related codes that describe medical ideas for digital well being documentation, and assist set a nationwide commonplace. They are going to assist standardize how pharmacists invoice and doc the providers they supply to sufferers.
Bailey earned his Physician of Pharmacy diploma from the UAMS Faculty of Pharmacy in 2016 and served his residency at UAMS Medical Middle in 2017. He has appointments in Scientific Informatics and the Faculty of Pharmacy.
Based in 1900, AACP is the nationwide group representing pharmacy training in the US. Pharmacy is the third largest well being occupation — after nursing and medication — with greater than 300,000 clinicians working towards in community-based practices, hospitals/well being techniques and plenty of different well being care settings. The mission of AACP is to guide and accomplice with its members in advancing pharmacy training, analysis, scholarship, follow and repair to enhance societal well being.
The Pharmacy HIT Collaborative contains the most important nationwide pharmacy associations, representing 250,000 members, together with these in pharmacy training and accreditation. The collaborative’s membership consists of the important thing nationwide pharmacy associations concerned in well being info know-how, the Nationwide Council for Prescription Drug Applications and 13 affiliate members encompassing e-prescribing, well being info networks, transaction processing networks, pharmacy corporations, system distributors, pharmaceutical producers and different organizations that assist pharmacists’ providers. For extra info, go to www.pharmacyhit.org.
