Jerry Fahrni

I attended one final session at the Summer Meeting today before heading back to the hotel to pack up my stuff, have some lunch and head for the airport; which is where I’m sitting now.

The session was titled Mobile Devices and Social Media: Enabling Your Professional and Personal Lives, and was delivered by Bill Felkey and Brent Fox. It was great. I thought I was pretty technology savvy, but I quickly found out that I still have a lot to learn. As with many sessions at this year’s Summer Meeting, this one was recorded and should be available at http://ce.ashp.org shortly. Do yourself a favor and go watch the audio-synched presentation. You won’t regret it.

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I’m in the market for a new smartphone so I’ve been looking around. My Motorola Droid still works just fine, but it’s starting to show its age. I’ve been waiting to see what the next Android phone version, i.e. Ice Cream Sandwich, has to offer before making a decision.

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I use WordPress to manage my blog. One of the plugins for WordPress tracks search engine terms that bring people to my site. Some of the search terms make no sense to me, but I have to say that I found today’s result funny.

Lexicomp is still the best drug information resource in the business in my opinion, and today I received an email announcing expanded neonatal dosing information in their pediatric references. The new information should be available for online subscriptions and all handheld subscriptions almost immediately; officially June 2. Changes to the print version should appear some time in mid August.

From Lexicomp News & Notes Update:

Introducing NEW Neonatal Dosing Information

Lexicomp is improving and expanding its neonatal dosing information in all handheld subscriptions to help deliver even better patient care for this sensitive population. Detailed dosing information for this high-risk population has been enhanced and highlighted to reduce confusion. This new field will be available in both print and handheld software, and will make it easier to find relevant neonatal dosing information on hundreds of drugs. In fact, Lexicomp now has specific neonatal dosing information on over 250 drugs — over 50% more than other sources!

ONLINE AND HANDHELD

On June 2, the Pediatric Lexi-Drugs database will be renamed Pediatric & Neonatal Lexi-Drugs. The new field with enhanced neonatal dosing information will start showing up on the same day. If you already subscribe to this database, you will only need to perform an update to get the new field.

IN PRINT

The next edition of the Pediatric Dosage Handbook is the 18th edition, which is scheduled to publish in mid August 2011. This edition will have a new name — the Pediatric & Neonatal Dosage Handbook — and will include the enhanced and highlighted neonatal dosing information.

I’ve been infatuated with job listing lately as I feel that many healthcare systems looking for pharmacists just don’t get it. But I have to give credit where credit is due. I came across the following listing in my RSS feed this morning. It comes from The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

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I received the following email message from DropBox the other day:

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I’ve been labeled ‘Google sheep’! All this because I said the Google Chromebook wasn’t a bad idea. Did I come out and say it was the only platform worth using? Nope. Did I say it was the greatest thing since sliced bread? Certainly not. Did I say it was revolutionary? By no means. Did I say it would change the way we look at computing? Not even close. Did I say it would be the dominant computing platform for the next 100 years? Sorry, but no. So why label me Google Sheep?

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