Pharmacy HIT Collaborative
Pharmacy HIT Collaborative

Strategic Plan

Strategic Plan 2022-2025

Executive Summary:

Formed in the fall of 2010, the Pharmacy Health Information Technology Collaborative’s (PHIT) vision and mission is for the US Health IT infrastructure will better enable pharmacists to help optimize person-centered care and for PHIT to advance and support the use, usability, and interoperability of health IT by pharmacists. The Collaborative’s goals seek to advance the adoption by pharmacists of systems capable of standards-driven health information exchange, for systems and providers to support health IT usability and workflow following the JCPP Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process, and facilitate the use of Health IT that supports effective quality measurement.

The PHIT Collaborative’s founding organizations represent pharmacists in all patient care settings and other facets of pharmacy, including pharmacy education and pharmacy education accreditation. The Collaborative’s Associate Members represent e-prescribing networks, a standards development organization, transaction processing networks, pharmacy companies, system vendors and other organizations that support pharmacists’ services. The Collaborative was founded by nine pharmacy professional associations representing over 250,000 members and includes seven associate members from other pharmacy related organizations. For additional information, visit www.pharmacyhit.org.

Vision:

The U.S. health information technology (IT) infrastructure will better enable pharmacists to optimize person-centered care.

Purpose:

The purpose of the Pharmacy Health Information Technology Collaborative (PHIT) is to advance pharmacists’ delivery of person-centered, team-based care by assuring widespread implementation of interoperable IT that facilitates efficient workflows, robust health information exchange, meaningful quality measurement, and sustainable financial models across practice environments.

This is accomplished by:

  • identifying and voicing the health IT needs of pharmacists;
  • promoting and influencing awareness of pharmacists’ use and functionality of health IT;
  • collaborating, facilitating, and convening stakeholders on topics related to health IT;
  • providing resources, guidance, and support for adoption and implementation of standards-driven health IT;
  • guiding health IT standards development and other activities to address the health IT needs of pharmacists; and
  • supporting the collection, documentation, and exchange of information among health IT systems.

Strategic Initiatives:

 

Implementation

  • Interoperability: Advance the adoption by pharmacists of systems capable of standards-driven health information exchange and advocate for the interoperable exchange of health information between pharmacists and other health care entities.
  • Workflow and Usability: Support the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process and the provision of pharmacist-provided patient care services.

Quality and Documentation

  • Measurement: Facilitate the use of health IT that supports effective quality measurement.
  • Attribution: Promote the specific roles and contributions that pharmacists provide in person-centered, team-based care.

 

Policy and Advocacy 

  • Communication: Enhance interactions with an impact on Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), standards development organizations (SDOs), pharmacy systems and electronic health record (EHR) vendors, and pharmacy and other stakeholder organizations.

Pharmacy HIT Collaborative’s Key Points

Implementation– Quality and Documentation– Policy and Advocacy

Goal 1: IMPLEMENTATION: Advance the adoption by pharmacists of systems capable of standards-driven health information exchange.

  • Objective 1: Identify health care system-wide health IT enhancements that PHIT can influence, develop, and implement action plans.
  • Objective 2: Provide information, education, and resources to the pharmacy profession to increase awareness of the impact of interoperability and information blocking on health care.
  • Objective 3: Create tools and resources to promote the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process workflow and use within health IT systems.
  • Objective 4: Participate with and influence SDOs and pharmacy systems and EHR vendors to facilitate use and usability for pharmacists, pharmacies and other medical and health care settings where pharmacists practice.

GOAL 2: QUALITY and DOCUMENTATION: Health IT supports the JCPP Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process and the provision of patient care services.

  • Objective 1: Participate in and influence the development and maintenance of pharmacy-related American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology (AMA CPT) codes.
  • Objective 2: Establish and maintain clinical documentation coding and value sets for the profession.
  • Objective 3: Integrate and harmonize the measure development work of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) and other entities in facilitating the data quality model using standard terminology.

GOAL 3: POLICY and ADVOCACY: Facilitate the use of Health IT that supports effective quality measurement.

  • Objective 1: Convene and collaborate with stakeholders to identify and advocate ways to improve interoperability and prevent information blocking.
  • Objective 2: Conduct targeted outreach activities to pharmacists and other key stakeholders to promote effective use of interoperable health IT.