Beth Breeden
Health Care Informatics
Associate Professor and Chair, Health Care Informatics
Biography
Dr. Beth Breeden is an Associate Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies in Health Care Informatics at the Lipscomb University College of Health Sciences. She has more than 25 years of experience in the health informatics sector and leads efforts in clinical informatics, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence, with research efforts extending to innovative technologies such as blockchain.
Over the last ten years, Beth has served as the founding Director of the Master of Science in Health Care Informatics (MHCI) and dual PharmD/MHCI degree programs, positioning Lipscomb University as the second college of pharmacy in the nation to offer these degrees. She coordinated development of the Lipscomb University/IBM Watson Analytics Collaboration, which resulted in Lipscomb being the first college of pharmacy to incorporate Watson Analytics within research and curricular offerings.
Her experience includes positions in academia, health system pharmacy, and the health system software development industry. Breeden served as lead in defining product strategy, managing the software development life cycle, and meeting regulatory requirements for clinical products.
She is published in the area of healthcare informatics and has served on peer review boards for Blockchain in Healthcare Today, Applied Clinical Informatics, and the American Medical Informatics Association.
She is an AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional (ACHIP) Diplomate.
Academic Degrees
Bachelor of Arts Biology - UT Knoxville;
Master of Science Biology - Austin Peay State University;
Bachelor of Science Pharmacy - Samford University.
Academic Department
College of Health Sciences
- Introduction to Health Informatics
- Capstone Research Course
- Foundations in Pharmacy Practice
- Practice Seminar I and II
- Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience
- Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience
- Health informatics
- Cognitive computing
- Data analytics/visualization
- Blockchain
- Digital health
- Artificial intelligence
- Project management
- Friebe, M. P., Legrand, J., Shepherd, B., Breeden, E. A., & Nelson, S. (2020). Reducing Inappropriate Outpatient Medication Prescribing in Older Adults across Electronic Health Record Systems. Applied Clinical Informatics., doi: DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1721398.
- Clauson, K. A., Breeden, E. A., Davidson, C., & Mackey, T. K. (2018). Leveraging blockchain technology to enhance supply chain management in healthcare: An exploration of challenges and opportunities in the health supply chain. Blockchain in Healthcare Today, 1 (1), 1-12, doi: https://doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v1.20.
- Fox, B. I., Flynn, A. J., Clauson, K. A., Seaton, T. L., & Breeden, E. A. (2017). An approach for some in advanced pharmacy informatics education. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 81 (9), 6241, doi: 10.5688/ajpe6241.
- Fox, B. I., Flynn, A., Clauson, K. A., Seaton, T. L., & Breeden, E. A. (2017). An Approach for All in Pharmacy Informatics Education. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 81 (2)., doi: 0.5688/ajpe81238.
- Clauson, K., Breeden, E. A., Fingado, A., Kaing, C., & Flynn, A. (2017). The current state of pharmacy informatics education at US colleges of pharmacy: 10 years later. American journal of pharmaceutical education.
- Breeden, E. A., & Clauson, K. A. (2016). Development and implementation of a multitiered health informatics curriculum in a college of pharmacy. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 23 (4), 844-7, doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocw023.
- Spiro, S., Baker, M., Breeden, E. A., & Baumgart, M. (2021). Optimized Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Using FHIR Based CDS Hooks. Under Review, Pharmacy HIT Collaborative Whitepaper.
- Clauson, K. A., & Breeden, E. A. (2019). Pharmacy, Pharma, and Blockchain: Healthcare Financials, Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, Clinical Trials, and Social Good. In Metcalf, David; Bass, John; Hooper, Max; Cahana, Alex; Dhillon, Vikram (Ed.), Blockchain in Healthcare: Innovations that Empower Patients, Connect Professionals, and Improve Care (pp. 534). Orlando, FL: Merging Traffic, Inc..
- Spiro, S., Breeden, E. A., & Kebedoux, C. (2018). Integrating Pharmacists in Health Informatics Exchanges (HIEs). http://www.pharmacyhit.org/pdfs/workshop-documents/WG3-Post-2018-01.pdf.
- Clauson, K. A., Aungst, T. D., Simard, R., Fox, B. I., & Breeden, E. A. (2017). Lessons learned and looking forward with pharmacy education: informatics and digital health. In Shachak A, Borycki E, Reis S (Ed.), Health Professionals' Education in the Age of Clinical Information Systems, Mobile Computing and Social Networks (pp. 181-201). Academic Press London.
- Spiro, S., & Breeden, E. A. (2016). Overview of Pharmacists' Role of mHealth In Medication Adherence. Overview of Pharmacists' Role of mHealth In Medication Adherence. Pharmacy Health Information Technology Collaborative.
- Spiro, S., Isetts, B. J., Breeden, E. A., Buffington, D., & Coffey, J. (2014). Pharmacists Working in Collaboration With Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals. Pharmacy Health Information Technology Collaborative. Pharmacy Health Information Technology Collaborative.
Beth has more than 25 years of experience in the health informatics sector and leads efforts in clinical informatics, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence, with research efforts extending to innovative technologies such as blockchain.
1st Annual Blockchain in Healthcare Today #ConV2X 2019 Editor’s Choice Article Award Winner.
