FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Shelly Spiro
703-599-5051; shelly@PharmacyHIT.org
March 25, 2024
PHIT Starts Search for New Executive Director
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia – The Pharmacy HIT Collaborative (PHIT) has started a nationwide search for a new executive director and is accepting candidates interested in this position. Shelly Spiro, PHIT executive director, announced she is retiring from the organization after 14 years and will remain in this role until a new executive director is named.
Over the last 14 years, PHIT has emerged as the pharmacy profession’s leader and advocate in the federal government’s efforts to establish a nationwide health information technology framework and the development of national health IT standards, including pharmacy value sets, for ensuring interoperability in the exchange of electronic information used in health care and by health care providers, especially pharmacists. PHIT works directly with the federal agencies (the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration), as well as serving on the ONC’s Health IT Advisory Committee newly formed Pharmacy Interoperability and Emerging Therapeutics Task Force.
As the leading authority in pharmacy health information technology, PHIT’s vision and mission are to ensure the U.S. health IT infrastructure better enables pharmacists to optimize person-centered care. Supporting and advancing the use, usability, and interoperability of health IT by pharmacists for person-centered care, PHIT identifies and voices the health IT needs of pharmacists; promotes awareness of functionality and pharmacists’ use of health IT; provides resources, guidance, and support for the adoption and implementation of standards-driven health IT; and guides health IT standards development to address pharmacists’ needs.
PHIT comprises the major national pharmacy associations, representing 250,000 members, including those in pharmacy education and accreditation. PHIT’s membership is composed of the key national pharmacy associations involved in health IT, the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, and 13 associate members encompassing e-prescribing, health information networks, transaction processing networks, pharmacy companies, system vendors, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other organizations that support pharmacists’ services.
For additional information and to apply for this position, interested parties should visit the PHIT website at https://pharmacyhit.org/executive-director/ or by contacting shelly@pharmacyhit.org.
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