Protecting Your Patients: Using an Active Surveillance System to Improve Quality and Safety of Medication Use

Program Overview:
Traditionally, medication safety efforts by pharmacists have focused on interventions at the point of order entry or verification. As patients’ conditions change throughout their hospital course, historically it has been challenging for healthcare providers to assess the continued appropriateness of medications ordered and to make additional therapeutic recommendations, other than through a manual process. The more recent adoption of electronic surveillance systems has given practitioners the opportunity to monitor patients more efficiently and effectively than traditional methods, resulting in a significant ability to improve patient outcomes.

From the frontline, join our speakers as they share the benefits of using active surveillance in health-system practice. Using real life examples, the speakers will share how data from surveillance systems can help to safely manage medication therapy based on fluctuating patient specific lab parameters, core measures, drug shortages, therapeutic drug monitoring, and antibiotic surveillance in real time.

The program will also highlight the benefits of expanded use of this technology by quality improvement, infection control, dietary, and disease management staff.

 Intended Audience:
Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged to attend together:

• Pharmacists
• Clinical Pharmacy Specialists
• Medication Safety and Patient Safety Officers
• Quality and Risk Management staff
• Infection Control staff
• Nurses and physicians involved in disease-state management
• Managers or Administrators with pharmacy, nursing, safety, or quality oversight
• Physician leaders

 
Objectives:
Following completion of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Define active surveillance as it pertains to medication management and health-systems
  
• Describe how active surveillance can be used to reduce risk
  
• List three benefits of developing an active surveillance strategy
  
• Give three examples of how tracking data improves quality outcomes
  
  

Moderator:
Matthew Grissinger, FISMP, FASCP
Director, Error Reporting Programs
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Horsham, PA

Speakers:
Christina Michalek, BS, FASHP
Medication Safety Specialist
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Horsham, PA

Leroy A. Kromis III, PharmD, BCPS
Medication Safety Officer
Lehigh Valley Health Network
Allentown, PA

Lauren Maurer, PharmD
PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Lehigh Valley Health Network
Allentown, PA

CONTINUING EDUCATION:
This webinar is approved for 1.5 hours of Pharmacy Continuing Education and 1.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. There is no additional charge for the continuing education credits for this webinar.

Educational Review Systems is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmaceutical education. This program is approved for 1.5 hours (0.15 CEUs). Educational Review Systems is also approved for pharmacy continuing education by the state of Florida.