Dr. Willie Pewarchuk is our new IHealth Medication Management Physician Informatics Lead. Willie has been an active staff member in the Department of Internal Medicine at Cowichan District Hospital (CDH) since 1994 and the Director of the Cowichan Community Cancer Centre since 1999. Actively working as a physician leader at Island Health, he is the Site Lead for the Department of Internal Medicine at CDH, an Advisory Board Member of the Cowichan District Medical Society and Co-Chair of the Pain Management and Opioid Safety Working Group.
Dr. Pewarchuk has been working as the Physician Informatics Lead for Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) and Clinical Decision Support in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) for the IHealth project since 2014. Most recently, he took on the role of Physician Lead for the Medication Reconciliation Project. In his new IHealth Medication Management role, he will continue working with IHealth leadership, Clinical Informatics, Pharmacy Informatics, Clinical Pharmacy, physicians and other care providers. He will also work closely with Kristie McDonald, Clinical Director of Orders Management.
We would like to thank Dr. Pewarchuk for his continued support of IHealth.