The subspecialty I plan to focus my career on is Medication Therapy Management (MTM), whether I work in a retail setting or not. Pharmacy informatics will be important to me because the programs I use to fill prescriptions will also monitor possible interactions, duplicate therapies, contraindications, etc. medications that my patients will receive. This system will be my resource for determining which patients need MTM and why, and by combining the information in the patient's pharmacy records with information I can obtain from the patient's other care providers and the patient themselves, I will be able to see what points I need to cover during an MTM session. Counseling is more fundamental than MTM, and proper dispensation is even more fundamental. The pharmacy patient information system tracks potential hazards to each patient in each prescription order, and if there is a safety issue or error in the patient's use of medications, the system will either notify the pharmacy technician, or myself, and I plan to pay attention to it. these warnings and ensuring everything is appropriate for each medication order before dispensing it to the patient. By doing this, I hope to avoid any serious medication errors, protect my patients, and ensure they receive the best medication treatment possible. If I do not properly use my pharmacy's IT resources, I am responsible for any harm caused to the patient by my negligence. The biggest failure I can think of when it comes to these systems is that they generate warning after warning that may or may not be important, so the pharmacists or technicians stop paying attention and fire them without knowing what it is. This practice can be ...... middle of article ...... What is the role of standard/structured medical vocabularies and other norms in CDS? Alternatively, why are standard/structured medical vocabularies necessary for CDS? They enable more effective communication between providers, patients and electronic systems. For example, a patient might say they have a broken leg, while a provider might call it a complex tibial shaft fracture, and the computer system will call it 1000110101101. (This piece of binary is completely made up.) The computer would then express its assessment of the situation, which the provider would understand as antibiotics and a stick in the leg. The patient may understand that they need to undergo surgery and take medications, depending on their level of familiarity with medicine. The fact is that without a way to translate medical information between different languages, we couldn't treat anything..