Laura Arnold, RPh

Current

• Consultant at Health Data Specialists, LLC

Past

• Healthcare Information Specialist at Expyram
• Pharmacy Informatics Specialist at Care New England
• Clinical Pharmacist at Kent Hospital

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Education

• University of Rhode Island

Connections

30 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Laura Arnold, RPh’s Summary

A registered pharmacist with diverse experience in clinical practice and health care information technology, Ms. Arnold is always looking to connect with like-minded colleagues in her field.

Laura Arnold, RPh’s Specialties:

Clinical pharmacy, health systems pharmacy, technical writing, process management

Laura Arnold, RPh’s Experience

• Consultant

  Health Data Specialists, LLC

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

• Healthcare Information Specialist

  Expyram

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — 2008 (2 years)

• Pharmacy Informatics Specialist

  Care New England

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  August 2003 — April 2008 (4 years 9 months)

  Responsible for PharmNet design, build and go-live support for upgrade from Cerner Millennium 2005 code level to 2007.07 for Care New England’s three partner hospitals.
  Experienced with Formulary Manager, Core Dose Range Checking builder, Multum, Frequency and tools.
  Familiar with Cerner interfaces to external systems including Pyxis.
  Experience with Core tools and Discern Explorer.
  Conducted a process review of clinical decision support at Kent Hospital using multiple Six Sigma methodologies, resulting in a 39% decrease in non-clinically significant decision support alerts.
  Responsible for design, build and implementation of software service packages.
  Provided end user training for clinical and reporting applications including authoring training materials, holding application workshops and training sessions.
  Database administrator for Cerner Millennium PharmNet, PowerChart and related clinical applications.

• Clinical Pharmacist

  Kent Hospital

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  August 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 2 months)

  Duties included assessing medication orders for appropriateness, safety and efficacy based on individual risk factors and patient lab values.
  Clinical responsibilities included providing clinicians with medication information, initiating and following up with clinical interventions as appropriate, renal function screening and IV to PO conversion.

Laura Arnold, RPh’s Education

• University of Rhode Island

  BS , Pharmacy , 1993 — 1998

Additional Information

Laura Arnold, RPh’s Interests:

pharmacy, healthcare automation technology, cycling

Laura Arnold, RPh’s Groups:

IEEE, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

•    Hospital & Healthcare IT & Clinical Analysts
•    The Cerner User Community

Laura Arnold, RPh’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch