Taking a High-Tech Approach to Dealing with Covid-19 with Pooja Babbrah
Today’s guest is Pooja Babbrah, a strategy and Senior policy consultant in the healthcare industry and Point-of-Care Partners’ Practice Lead for PBM Services and a co-chair of NCPDP’s Specialty Pharmacy Work Group. Her focus is on healthcare technology and the importance of using technology to help those involved in a patient’s care including doctors, nurses, other clinical and administrative staff and the patients themselves.
Pooja will shed some light on how COVID-19 has impacted her work and her efforts to ensure healthcare information is shared quickly, accurately and securely. We'll also discuss how technology is changing the way we receive health care and how those in the field are adapting and benefiting from all the new innovations.
Throughout her career, Pooja’s efforts have been instrumental in bringing relevant and critical information to doctors in an electronic format. It wasn’t until she was well into her career when she realized the work she was doing was having such a positive impact on patients and their families and since then, she’s made it her mission to focus her efforts on work that will help patients. In that regard, last year she testified in front of Congress to advocate for the ability for consumers to easily compare medication prices at multiple pharmacies to find the lowest price for their prescriptions. She has also recently been appointed to the Board of Trustees for a national healthcare standards organization which is focused on ways to ensure that healthcare information is shared quickly, accurately and securely to help improve patient outcomes. She also launched the health care industry’s first certified ePrescribing platform for controlled substances, DrFirst’s EPCS Gold 2.0 and was also involved with the development and launch of the company’s HIPAA and DIRECT compliant secure clinical messaging platform.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/poojababbrah
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https://www.youtube.com/user/pocpHIT
Water1st International: www.water1st.org
Link to Congressional testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_17LQ9x3RY&t=132s
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