TELECONFERENCE

Using BPOC Data to Drive Quality Improvement

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW How do you know if your barcode point-of-care (BPOC) system is effective? Effectively using data from today’s BPOC systems can be instrumental in identifying areas for improvement, monitoring progress, and selecting successful strategies for better patient outcomes. However, implementing your system to intercept medication administration errors is only the beginning of your journey towards safe practice. This teleconference will highlight how to develop and appropriately utilize BPOC metrics to maximize patient safety benefits. ISMP staff will present the rationale for and benefits of BPOC technology quality indicators. One leading healthcare organization with extensive utilization of BPOC technology will describe its experiences with collecting and utilizing quality measures in practice.

INTENDED AUDIENCE (Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged to attend together):

• Patient or medication safety officers
• Risk management/performance improvement staff
• Clinical and administrative-level nurses
• Pharmacy directors, staff, and pharmacy technicians
• Information technology staff
• Physicians
• Other healthcare staff involved with BPOC implementation and use

OBJECTIVES

Following completion of this teleconference, participants should be able to:

• Identify current metrics available to support the safe use of BPOC technology and potential barriers to data collection
• Discuss common failure points associated with the use of BPOC systems and their impact on practice quality measures
• Describe the benefits of using targeted process measures and an interdisciplinary approach to data analysis to maximize safe use of BPOC technology

MODERATOR

• Stuart Levine, PharmD, Informatics Specialist, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA

SPEAKERS

• Stuart Levine, PharmD, Informatics Specialist, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA
• Christina Michalek, RPh, BS, Director of Pharmacy, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, Allentown, PA

PRICING INFORMATION

Live Teleconference	$195.00
Live Teleconference and Teleconference CD	$225.00 (Plus $5.00 S&H)
Teleconference CD	$195.00 (Plus $5.00 S&H)
*CD includes a file of the audio recording of the teleconference as well as PowerPoint files containing slides of each presentation.

TELECONFERENCE POLICIES

Registration

• One telephone line connection is allowed per registration. Others may listen on this telephone line via an internal extension, or a speakerphone may be used for larger groups.
• You may not set up conferencing capabilities for other sites outside the facility. Each specific site may be used for larger groups. Each specific site must register individually.
• We cannot accept registrations without an email address and the name of a contact person.
• Registration for this teleconference will end at midnight ET on 6/17/2008.
• CDs will be available for purchase after the teleconference.

Cancellations

• Cancellations must be requested via an email message to our teleconference department.
• Cancellations received before the start (1:30 pm ET) of the teleconference will receive a full refund or credit.
• Cancellations received after the start (1:30 pm ET) of the teleconference and within 3 business days after the teleconference will be assessed a cancellation fee of $50.00.
• If your organization does not cancel within 3 business days after the date of the teleconference and does not participate, the full registration fee will be charged.

Materials

• If your organization's registered participant does not receive the teleconference materials that are sent out approximately 2 days before the teleconference via email, please send an email message to our billing department prior to the start of the teleconference.
  
• When registering, please be sure to provide the email address of the person to whom ISMP should send these materials.

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Accreditation Information:

NOTE: There is no additional charge for continuing education credits for this teleconference.

Pharmacy Continuing Education Continuing education credits will be provided by The Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group. PPAG is an approved provider of continuing pharmacy education by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). This program has been approved for 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEUs). The UPN is: 180-999-08-509-L04-P. Nursing Continuing Education Debora Simmons is approved by the California Board of Nurse Examiners as a provider of continuing nursing education. This program has been assigned the Universal Program Number CEP 13677 and is approved for 1 contact hours (0.1 CEUs) of continuing nursing education.