On July 16, 2025, the BPS - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) received a petition from the American Pharmacists Association and ASHP to recognize Pharmacy Informatics as a BPS specialty certification. The petition is open for public comment and will close on August 20, 2025. I plan to add my thoughts to the petition, but will also expand on my comments in this article. I encourage my colleagues in pharmacy and informatics to do the same.

In short, I'm in strong support of a new BPS specialty for pharmacy informatics. Though I'm hoping that the examination content extends a bit beyond pharmacy informatics to include other areas, be it health IT policy or biomedical informatics, more transparency occurs with the board maintenance fees, and increased ROI for candidates who are investing their time and resources into getting board certified. In this article, I'd like to dive a bit deeper into my opinions.