Webinars:

The Building Wave of Pay-for-Performance: Is Your Practice Ready for the Rising Tide? - 5/26/10 - NEW
The current United States' healthcare environment is in turmoil with costs rising and many concerns about the quality and safety of the care provided. The concept of value-based purchasing seeks to address these problems by asserting that buyers should hold providers of health care accountable for both cost and quality of care. Pay-for-performance (P4P), a type of value-based purchasing, provides an incentive-based reimbursement system that rewards providers based on performance evaluated using standardized measures. This webinar with Steve Riddle, BS Pharm, BCPS, FASHP, explores the basic premise of P4P, reviews current P4P models and discusses how pharmacists can best prepare for and participate in this new model. View the on-demand webinar or download the slides.

Beyond the Drug Budget: Documenting Pharmacy's Impact on Overall Health System Costs - 5/12/10
The impact pharmacists have in improving clinical outcomes and reducing drug expenses has been well-documented and well-accepted. However, the greatest impact of many pharmacy initiatives is seen in areas outside the actual pharmacy budget. Through a series of case studies, the ability of strong clinical pharmacy programs to impact the overall budget of health systems is examined. View the on-demand webinar or download the slides.

Documenting and Sharing the Benefits of a Clinically Strong Department of Pharmacy - 4/28/10
Michael R. McDaniel, R.Ph., MBA, FASHP, Director of Pharmacy Services at Huntsville Hospital, examines the importance of documentation for a clinical pharmacy department. He shares tactics that can strengthen clinical pharmacy including developing a strong clinical suite of services, documenting the workload, recording the value of these services, using tools to enhance productivity, and sharing the workload involved. McDaniel shows how these practices culminate in a return on investment (ROI) statement to see the cost-saving impact of the department's work. View the on-demand webinar or download the slides.

Reducing the Risk of Patient Harm from Anticoagulation Therapy - 3/3/10
Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FASCP, Director of Error Reporting Programs at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses barriers to optimal anticoagulation therapy and safety, common types of errors that occur with anticoagulants, and how human factors and practice issues can increase the risk of those errors among physicians, health-system pharmacists, nurses and patients. View the on-demand webinar or download the slides.

Strategic and Operational Planning - The Execution - 1/20/10
Joyce A. Tipton speaks about a systematic process for Strategic and Operational Planning that is a defined year-long cycle that will help you to determine where you should be going, how you are going to get there, who is responsible, how you will measure it, and why do you do what you do in the first place. View on-demand webinar or download slides.

Surgical Site Infection due to MRSA: Facts, Fiction, and Frustration - 1/6/10
Dr. Deverick Anderson presents the latest research on SSI due to MRSA, including epidemiology, risk factors, and outcomes, preventative strategies for SSI, strategies to specifically prevent SSI due to MRSA and the controversies surrounding these strategies. View on-demand webinar or download slides.

The Joint Commission Medication Management Update for Pharmacists - 10/14/09
Darryl S. Rich, Pharm.D., M.B.A., FASHP, Surveyor for The Joint Commission, presents what pharmacists need to know going in to 2010.
DISCLAIMER: Please note that this presentation is current as of 10/14/09. The Joint Commission reserves the right to change the content of the information as appropriate. View on-demand webinar.

Implementation and Measurement of a Standard Pharmacy Clinical Practice Model Across a Multi-Hospital System  - 8/26/09
Steve Pickette, R.Ph., BCPS, Director System Pharmacy Clinical Services for Providence Health & Services, describes their health care delivery system initiative to convert 27 hospitals to a standard pharmacy clinical practice model. View on-demand webinar or download slides.

Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship: Our Only Two Strategies to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance  - 8/11/09
Robert P. Rapp, PharmD, FCCP, Professor Emeritus for the College of Pharmacy and College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky, focuses on ways that all healthcare professionals can improve both infection control and antimicrobial stewardship. View on-demand webinar or download slides.

Projecting and Managing Future Drug Expenditures - 7/9/09
Lee Vermeulen, Director of the Center for Drug Policy in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, discusses expenditure trends and a pharmaceutical expenditure forecast for 2009 along with several examples of innovative cost-containment initiatives. View on-demand webinar or download slides.

Medication Management and The Joint Commission: A 2009 Survey Experience - 4/15/09
Jennifer Davis, Pharmacy Director at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, describes her recent Joint Commission survey experience in February 2009 and identifies techniques that could assist hospital pharmacies during their survey experience. View the recording or download slides.

Hospital Infection - Essential New Information to Support Cleaning and Screening - 3/31/09
Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., former Lieutenant Governor of New York State and Chairman/Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID), covers the size of the hospital infection problem, the preventability of the problem, the importance of environmental cleaning and screening, as wells as pressures on hospitals to improve: reimbursement, legislation, litigation. View the recording.

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs - A Necessity in 2009 for Managing Antimicrobial Resistance in Health Systems - 2/17/09
Debra A. Goff, PharmD, FCCP, Infectious Disease Specialist and Co-director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) at The Ohio State University Medical Center, presents the challenges associated with antimicrobial stewardship program implementation and examples of successful multidisciplinary approaches to antimicrobial stewardship. View the recording or download a reference slide.

National Patient Safety Goal for Anticoagulation: Has Your Facility Met the Standard? - 2/4/09
Michael P. Gulseth, Pharm. D., BCPS, Program Director for Anticoagulation Services at Sanford USD Medical Center provides an overview of the 2009 National Patient Safety Goal and efforts to meet the goal. The evidence to support the goal along with practical ideas of how to meet the goal are presented.  Download slides or view the recording.

The Ins and Outs of a Clinical Rules Engine - 5/8/08
Michael R. McDaniel, R.Ph., MBA, FASHP, Director of Pharmacy Services at Huntsville Hospital, speaks on his hospital's use of pharmacy clinical rules engines, from his home-grown PhRED system to future uses with new web-based and built-in clinical systems. You will learn: the what and why of a clinical rules engine, benefits and staff response, and uses/examples of clinical rules. Download slides and audio recording.

Case Studies:

The Lehigh Valley Health Network pharmacy team estimates a six-fold increase in the amount of targeted initiatives they could tackle each day since their implementation of Sentri7. The hospital easily impressed The Joint Commission with their new safety initiatives during two hospital inspections and logged nearly $250,000 in hard cost savings in the first six months. Read the case study.

Washington County Hospital was able to effectively expand their clinical offering by implementing a clinical data surveillance application and documentation tool. Pre-implementation clinical programs focused on drug kinetic evaluations, IV/PO and renal dosing protocols. Post-implementation they were able to expand their clinical initiatives to include antimicrobial streamlining and anticoagulation management, amongst others. Read the case study.

Providence St. Vincent Medical Center performed a pre- and post-implementation study to evaluate the impact of Sentri7 in their institution prior to the purchase of the software by the entire Providence system. Data showed a 500% increase in total interventions documented and a 1600% increase in cost savings attributable to those interventions. Read the case study.

Steve Pickette is the System Manager of Pharmacy Clinical Services for all of Providence Health and Services and has been using Sentri7 since August of 2007. In this interview he explains how Sentri7 has helped with quality improvement and patient safety. Read the case study.

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