What is pharmacy informatics? -- Drivers of change: emergent information and biotechnologies -- Computer and informatics basics -- Controlled vocabularies -- Literature and the world wide web -- Hospital information systems -- Pharmacy information systems -- Bedside bar coding technology and implementation -- Pharmacy informatics as a career -- Avoiding medication errors / Joseph E. Scherger and -- Tertiary information sources for professionals and patients -- PDAs and handheld devices -- The practice of evidence-based medicine -- Clinical pharmacokinetics computer programs -- Clinical decision support systems -- Data mining for pharmacy outcomes -- Pharmaceutical sciences in a virtual world -- Where do we go from here?