TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY and HEALTH SCIENCES
DRUG INFORMATION and HEALTH INFORMATICS CENTER
JOHN P. McGOVERN CAMPUS
TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER
2450 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, Texas

HOURS: 9:00am – 5:00pm (Mon-Fri)
Phone: 713-313-1242, 713-313-1243

OBJECTIVES:

·      To serve health professionals by providing comprehensive, objective, and unbiased information to drug-related questions for decision making and problem solving activities.

·        To provide a learning center for pharmacy students for acquiring drug information skills, including effective literature searching strategies, critical analysis of the information, and accurate communication of the response.

·         To provide drug information services to health care institutions to assist in the delivery of quality patient care.

·         To serve as information resource center for faculty, students, and the community.

·         To conduct research for the advancement of drug information and pharmacy practice.

·         To promote the profession of pharmacy and the TSU college of pharmacy.

·         To offer post-graduate residency training in drug information.

DESCRIPTION:

The Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Drug Information Center will function as a fee-for-service operation housed in the John P. McGovern Campus that focuses on three core activities: service, education, and research. This unique center will provide comprehensive drug information services to clients including hospitals, HMOs, nursing homes, home infusion companies, community pharmacies, and governmental entities.

The overall services provided include drug information consults, committee support (Pharmacy and Therapeutics [P&T], Institutional Review Board [IRB], Infection Control), formulary management, policy and procedure development, drug therapy practice guidelines generation, drug formulary list generation, Drug Usage Evaluation (DUE) and Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) programs. Teaching programs include didactic courses in Drug Information Systems and Drug Literature Evaluation and the experiential based precepting of Pharm.D. student clerkship rotations. 

Information services are provided to health care professionals of the subscribing institutions and the TSU faculty by a staff of drug information specialists, students, residents, and clerical support.  TSU already has extensive computerization (e.g., on-line, CD-ROM) of drug information databases and online journal access through the Texas Medical Center Library.  Furthermore, an extended collection of other resources (textbooks, journals, newsletters, etc.) is available within either the Center or the College of Pharmacy’s main library.

Since the TSU-Drug Information Center is not directly affiliated with a hospital, it will be started as a subscription service to meet the drug information needs of health care professionals within Texas.  For a very reasonable annual fee, each subscriber has access to comprehensive drug information services. Access to pharmacy faculty specialists expands the expertise available to answer questions and solve problems for the Center’s subscribers.

Our services provide medication use and pharmaceutical care support at a very high level for the subscribing institutions at a modest price.