In Need of (Clinical Decision) Support | Dr. Lucas Schulz | UW Health & ILÚM Health Solutions

On this episode, we chat with Dr. Lucas Schulz (@LucasTSchulz), infectious disease and critical care pharmacist at University of Wisconsin Health. Luke is also an adviser to ILÚM Health Solutions - an infectious disease (ID) platform and real-time information service that supports patient management decisions, quality programs, and better outcomes through: Clinical collaboration and ongoing quality consulting Program level insight Point-of-care clinical decision support Luke helps us to understand: What it means to be an infectious disease and critical care pharmacist How to establish an Antimicrobial Stewardship program and which health system teams/departments are involved How a platform like ILÚM helps you move from anecdotal to evidenced-based medicine How to deliver high quality care and simultaneously deal with the business and financial pressures of running a health system This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.     About Dr. Lucas Schulz Dr. Lucas Schulz is the infectious diseases clinical coordinator and PGY2 Infectious Diseases residency program director at University of Wisconsin Health. Following graduation from the University of Wisconsin - School of Pharmacy, he completed PGY1 and PGY2 critical care residencies at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. In his current role, he is responsible for all anti-infective use across the UW Health enterprise leading the antimicrobial stewardship program at UW Health and is involved with all institutional committees pertaining to infectious diseases.  He has served as PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency Program Director for 7 years His patient care, research, and teaching activities focus on antimicrobial stewardship, PK/PD optimization, hospital-acquired infections, and clinical decision support development. 32 peer-reviewed publications on infectious diseases topics. Currently serves on the Wisconsin Department of Health Antimicrobial Steering Committee, a panel member for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline on prevention and treatment of cancer-related infections, and the programming committee for the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists 2017 Annual Meeting. Active member of the Vizient Antimicrobial Stewardship Taskforce and Research Committee. https://www.uwhealth.org/ https://www.uwhealth.org/antimicrobial-stewardship/ @LucasTSchulz     About ILÚM Health Solutions ILÚM Health Solutions was created by Merck HSS and shares the vision to improve health and well-being. ILÚM is a specialized service focused on the unique challenges of infectious disease with the goal of supporting improved patient and hospital outcomes. Their technology-enabled solution helps leverage HIT assets to maximize the impact of quality programs. ILÚM Health Solutions aims to help hospitals and healthcare institutions: Efficiently target patients and accelerate time to interventions to make improved empiric treatment decisions Efficiently and consistently track performance, prescribing, and patient outcomes Enhance timely communication and clinical collaboration within workflow https://www.ilumhealthsolutions.com/blog/  @ilumhealth You can find the rest of our HIMSS18 Interviews here. Subscribe to Weekly Updates If you like what we're doing here, then please consider signing up for our weekly newsletter. You'll get one email from me each week detailing: New podcast episodes and blog posts. Content or ideas that I've found valuable in the past week. Insider info about the show like stats, upcoming episodes and future plans that I won't put anywhere else. Plain text and straight from the heart :) No SPAM or fancy graphics and you can unsubscribe with a single click anytime. The #HCBiz Show! is produced by Glide Health IT, LLC in partnership with Netspective Media. Music by StudioEtar