Margaret Blackstone Artz
Senior Healthcare Analyst at RxClarity Group, LLC- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Licensed Pharmacist
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Experience
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RxClarity Group, LLC
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Healthcare Analyst
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Apr 2019 - Present
At RxClarity, we are Executive Pharmacy Advisors who demand high touch client services, compassionate patient care and transparency in your pharmacy programs. website: www.rxclaritygroup.com email: margaret.artz@rxclaritygroup.com At RxClarity, we are Executive Pharmacy Advisors who demand high touch client services, compassionate patient care and transparency in your pharmacy programs. website: www.rxclaritygroup.com email: margaret.artz@rxclaritygroup.com
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Skylark Opera
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United States
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Music
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1 - 100 Employee
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Board Member
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Dec 2020 - Present
As a volunteer Board member and a co-chair of the Skylark grant funding committee, we connect with foundations and patrons who have available fine arts or music grants or sponsorships. Skylark is a 501c3 organization dedicated to bringing opera and musical theater, sung in English, to multiple generations in small settings. We provide programming at affordable ticket prices with discounts for students, seniors, and such. Throughout Covid, we continued to provide innovative online musical offerings. If you are interested in helping us, please feel free to contact me: margaret.b.artz@gmail.com. For more information, check out https://www.skylarkopera.org Direct email: margaret@skylarkopera.org
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Principal
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Jul 2018 - Present
Provide short-term clinical consulting services to start-ups or small companies. Some examples of services include: developing vetted medical, pharmaceutical, or laboratory test sets for your specific research questions or analytic projects; assisting your software developers in best use of various taxonomies in back or front-end processes, e.g., First Databank module capabilities, Medi-Span, RxNorm, NDC, ICD, CPT, LOINC. Direct email: margaret.b.artz@gmail.com Provide short-term clinical consulting services to start-ups or small companies. Some examples of services include: developing vetted medical, pharmaceutical, or laboratory test sets for your specific research questions or analytic projects; assisting your software developers in best use of various taxonomies in back or front-end processes, e.g., First Databank module capabilities, Medi-Span, RxNorm, NDC, ICD, CPT, LOINC. Direct email: margaret.b.artz@gmail.com
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Clinical Informaticist
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Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
ArdentCare Solutions LLC is now RxClarity Group, LLC. Combining healthcare practice and expertise, evidence-based research, and informatics to improve efficiency and effectiveness of pharmacy benefit offerings, including formulary development and governance, utilization management, practice workflow, analysis, and documentation. ArdentCare Solutions LLC is now RxClarity Group, LLC. Combining healthcare practice and expertise, evidence-based research, and informatics to improve efficiency and effectiveness of pharmacy benefit offerings, including formulary development and governance, utilization management, practice workflow, analysis, and documentation.
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Director, Optum Enterprise Analytics
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Mar 2006 - Jul 2018
I am a member of a team who provides the clinical content for Optum healthcare analytic solutions. These solutions are market leaders and offer clients an array of robust capabilities for care management, quality-of-care assessment, prediction of future risk, and measurement of total costs of defined-illness episodes. I recently developed an innovative analytic solution to measure medication regimen complexity using pharmacy claims. The scores, weights, and drug therapy details in its output have a variety of business applications across the payer and provider spaces. Uses include patient stratification for care management, reports for Medication Therapy Management services, data to drive customized medication adherence intervention programs, and weight scores to add to risk models. This trademarked analytic will be released for licensing to the U.S. market in July 2018. My work activities have included the development of appropriate methodologies for incorporating pharmacy and lab test content into software analytic tools used in various Optum analytic solutions. Supportive activities include providing pharmacy subject matter expertise to product sales teams, e.g., conference presentations, writing white papers and user documentation. I also spent several years managing a clinical consulting team. Consulting services: In the last three years, major effort involved building clinical consulting services within the department and included leading and participating in clinical analytic projects with external business clients in the areas of new drug applications for FDA submissions and customized add-on analytics for clients across UHG. Expertise: Pharmacy Risk Groups™, Evidence Based Medicine Connect™, Episode Treatment Groups™, and Impact Pro Clinical Indicator™, LOINC, Microsoft ACCESS, drug taxonomies including RxNorm, CVX/MVX, and modules within First Databank's compendium, project resource estimation.
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LundsByerlys
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Pharmacist, part-time
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May 2005 - May 2012
staff pharmacist (part-time) staff pharmacist (part-time)
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University of Minnesota
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Associate, Assistant Professor
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Jun 2000 - Feb 2006
Assisted in outcomes research in geriatric pharmacotherapy. Developed & taught pharmaco-epidemiology graduate course; guest lecturer for graduate & professional-level public health, pharmacy , and nursing courses. Published in peer-reviewed healthcare literature and assisted in grant-writing ventures. Assisted in outcomes research in geriatric pharmacotherapy. Developed & taught pharmaco-epidemiology graduate course; guest lecturer for graduate & professional-level public health, pharmacy , and nursing courses. Published in peer-reviewed healthcare literature and assisted in grant-writing ventures.
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PrairieStone Pharmacy
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United States
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Telecommunications
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Casual On-Call Pharmacist
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Mar 2003 - May 2005
Community pharmacy practice Community pharmacy practice
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Snyder Drug, Inc.
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United States
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Personal Care Product Manufacturing
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Pharmacist
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Apr 1981 - Jun 2003
Pharmacist, community practice Pharmacist, community practice
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Education
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1996 - 2000
University of Minnesota
Ph.D., Social & Administrative Pharmacy -
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University of Minnesota
M.S., Social & Administrative Pharmacy -
1971 - 1976
Duquesne University School of Pharmacy
Bachelor of Pharmacy - BPharm, Pharmacy; Pharmacy Manufacturing -
1971 - 1976
Duquesne University
B.S., Pharmacy -
Duquesne University
Bachelor of Pharmacy - BPharm
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