Members $30
Non-Members $75
Space is Limited !
4.0 CE Credits available for both Pharmacists and Technicians
Special Presentation by :
Paul W. Abramowitz, Pharm.D., Sc.D. (Hon), FASHP
Chief Executive Officer
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
"Transforming Patient Care: Paramount Issues and Opportunities in Pharmacy Practice."
Registration opens in the Fall 2013
Crowne Plaza at the Crossings
801 Greenwich Avenue, Warwick, RI 02886
Registration and Breakfast 6:45am
Program Begins 7:30 am
Program Adjourns 1 pm
Program:
1) Enhancing the Medication Reconciliation Process during Transitions of Care Utilizing Student Pharmacists, Marco Delbove PharmD of Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island
2) Procalcitonin: What and Why?, Martha J. Roberts PharmD and Ankur Patel PharmD of Chartercare, St. Joseph’s Health Services of RI
3) Clinical Leadership Decision Process – How can you Balance Positive patient Outcomes and Costs of New, Expensive Therapies?, Mark Curtis RPh and Ron Lombardi, Chartercare, Roger Williams Medical Center
4) The Use of Home Electronic Blood Pressure Monitoring (HeBPM) in Renal Transplant Recipients, Daniel Migliozzi,PharmD, Lifespan, Rhode Island Hospital
5) Business Intelligence: How it works, how it breaks and how to get it, Louis Palmisciano, Lifespan
6) Living with Epilepsy, Tolani Olagundaye, URI Pharmacy Student
7) Pharmacist Directed Chemotherapy Care Navigation, Leslie Pires MS, PharmD and David Gammon BSPh, Women and Infants
8) Prespectives from Current Residents - choosing the right program for you, Micael Halse PharmD and Christine Smelstor PharmD, South County Hospital Residents
Pharmacist Objectives
Review how goals of patient therapy (new, expensive, targeted), outcomes, cost and reimbursement can be evaluated.
Consider the Impact of New Expensive therapies on Hospital Finances.
Demonstrate how using a data base can help in the present and future decision making process.
Associate the impact of HeBPM on improved blood pressure management
Discuss the clinical impact of hypertension on transplant related outcomes
Identify current progress in the HeBPM program at Rhode Island Hospital and discuss notable patient cases
Discuss procedures for coordinating HeBPM data as patients transition from different healthcare settings
Discuss the concept of business intelligence, its role in a hospital pharmacy and a real world example
Explain the pitfalls and shortcomings of a pharmacy business intelligence operation and how to control for them
Advise about how to setup a pharmacy business intelligence operation including what to look for when hiring a technology professional
Review how goals of patient therapy (new, expensive, targeted), outcomes, cost and reimbursement can be evaluated
Consider the Impact of New Expensive therapies on Hospital Finances.
Demonstrate how using a data base can help in the present and future decision making process.
Discuss future pharmacy practice models and new methods of care delivery to improve outcomes of care
Describe a focus on the full continuum of medication therapy to eliminate silos of care
Discuss the ACO Model and ways in which pharmacists should participate
Identify opportunities and ways pharmacists should educate the public, patients, and payors to enlist their support for availability of pharmacy care
Describe the importance and process for pharmacists to obtain provider status at the Federal, State and Local levels
Explain how the evolution of CDTM to broaden pharmacist prescribing privileges will improve the delivery of health care
Technician Objectives
Review how goals of patient therapy (new, expensive, targeted), outcomes, cost and reimbursement can be evaluated.
Consider the Impact of New Expensive therapies on Hospital Finances.
Demonstrate how using a data base can help in the present and future decision making process.
Associate the impact of HeBPM on improved blood pressure management
Discuss the clinical impact of hypertension on transplant related outcomes
Identify current progress in the HeBPM program at Rhode Island Hospital and discuss notable patient cases
Discuss procedures for coordinating HeBPM data as patients transition from different healthcare settings
Discuss the concept of business intelligence, its role in a hospital pharmacy and a real world example
Explain the pitfalls and shortcomings of a pharmacy business intelligence operation and how to control for them
Advise about how identify potentials for use of Business Intelligence to improve operational efficiency
Review how goals of patient therapy (new, expensive, targeted), outcomes, cost and reimbursement can be evaluated
Consider the Impact of New Expensive therapies on Hospital Finances.
Demonstrate how using a data base can help in the present and future decision making process.
Discuss future pharmacy practice models and new methods of care delivery to improve outcomes of care
Describe a focus on the full continuum of medication therapy to eliminate silos of care
Discuss the ACO Model and ways in which pharmacists should participate
Identify opportunities and ways pharmacists should educate the public, patients, and payors to enlist their support for availability of pharmacy care
Describe the importance and process for pharmacists to obtain provider status at the Federal, State and Local levels
Explain how the evolution of CDTM to broaden pharmacist prescribing privileges will improve the delivery of health care
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