Using Informatics and Basic Research to Improve Medication Safety
Track:
Educational Sessions
Program Code: 281-L05
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
Location:
S230H
MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
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Heidi Cozart, BS Pharmacy, Associate Clinical Director - Computerized Patient Safety Initiatives, Duke University Health System
Heidi currently serves as the Associate Clinical Director of Computerized Patient Safety Initiatives for Duke University Health System (DUHS) after coming to Duke University Hospital (DUH) in 2001. She graduated from the University Of Iowa College Of Pharmacy in 1994 and began her career in informatics in 1996. She has worked in various aspects of the field of informatics, including software design, support & implementation. While at Duke, she has been involved in a variety of informatics initiatives focused on medication safety & outcomes research. Her career interests include biomedical informatics and patient safety research. She chairs the DUHS Patient Safety Systems Oversight Committee and is an active member of various other health system patient safety and informatics steering committees. She also serves as secondary investigator on an ‘Automated Adverse Drug Event Detection and Intervention’ AHRQ grant. She completed the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10X10 professional training program in 2006 from Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) and is currently working towards a Masters degree in Biomedical Informatics from OHSU in Portland, Oregon. She attained her Six Sigma Black Belt and Design for Six Sigma Certifications from North Carolina State University.
Publications:
Ferranti, J., M. Horvath, H. Cozart, et al. (2008). A multifaceted approach to safety: The synergistic detection of adverse drug events in adult inpatients. Submitted.
Ferranti, J., M. Horvath, H. Cozart, et al. (2008). Re-evaluating the safety profile of pediatrics: A comparison of computerized adverse drug event surveillance and voluntary reporting in the pediatric environment.
PRESENTER(S):
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Heidi Cozart, BS Pharmacy, Associate Clinical Director - Computerized Patient Safety Initiatives, Duke University Health System
Heidi currently serves as the Associate Clinical Director of Computerized Patient Safety Initiatives for Duke University Health System (DUHS) after coming to Duke University Hospital (DUH) in 2001. She graduated from the University Of Iowa College Of Pharmacy in 1994 and began her career in informatics in 1996. She has worked in various aspects of the field of informatics, including software design, support & implementation. While at Duke, she has been involved in a variety of informatics initiatives focused on medication safety & outcomes research. Her career interests include biomedical informatics and patient safety research. She chairs the DUHS Patient Safety Systems Oversight Committee and is an active member of various other health system patient safety and informatics steering committees. She also serves as secondary investigator on an ‘Automated Adverse Drug Event Detection and Intervention’ AHRQ grant. She completed the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10X10 professional training program in 2006 from Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) and is currently working towards a Masters degree in Biomedical Informatics from OHSU in Portland, Oregon. She attained her Six Sigma Black Belt and Design for Six Sigma Certifications from North Carolina State University.
Publications:
Ferranti, J., M. Horvath, H. Cozart, et al. (2008). A multifaceted approach to safety: The synergistic detection of adverse drug events in adult inpatients. Submitted.
Ferranti, J., M. Horvath, H. Cozart, et al. (2008). Re-evaluating the safety profile of pediatrics: A comparison of computerized adverse drug event surveillance and voluntary reporting in the pediatric environment.
Julie Eckstrand, BS Pharm, Clinical Pharmacist, Duke University Health System
Julie currently serves as a Clinical Pharmacist on the Computerized Patient Safety Initiatives team for Duke University Health System (DUHS) after coming to Duke University Hospital (DUH) in 2006. She graduated from Ohio Northern University in 1987 and began her career in informatics in 2006. Her responsibilities at Duke include informatics initiatives focused on medication safety & outcomes research in Glycemic Control and Perioperative Services. She also serves as the system administrator for the Computerized ADE-S Detection system. She is named on an ‘Automated Adverse Drug Event Detection and Intervention’ AHRQ grant. She completed the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10X10 professional training program in 2007 from Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) and is working towards a Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics from OHSU in Portland, Oregon.
Sharon L. Ellison, Pharm.D
Clinical Pharmacist
Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record
Duke Health Technology Solutions
Duke University Health System
2424 Erwin Rd
Durham, NC 27710
Phone: 919-668-0383
Sharon.ellison@duke.edu
SE Bio: Sharon is a Clinical Pharmacist who joined the deployment team for the Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (AEMR) at Duke University Hospital (DUH) in December 2007 after 12 years with Duke’s Investigational Drug Service. She has a BA in English from Guilford College and a Pharm.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has been a member of Duke Hospital’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) since 1999. Sharon completed the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10X10 professional training program in 2007 from Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) and is working towards a Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics from OHSU in Portland, Oregon.
Shobha Phansalkar, BS Pharm, PhD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Partners Healthcare, Inc.
Shobha is an Informatician with the Clinical Informatics Research and Development (CIRD) group at Partners Healthcare and an Instructor in Medicine at the Division of General Medicine, Harvard Medical School. She is currently a Co-Principal Investigator on a Medication History research project at Partners that aims to assess the feasibility of using claims and prescription information data to enhance the accuracy of patient medication history. In previous roles, Shobha led projects related to the decision making process of pharmacists and effects on Adverse Drug Event (ADE) detection, adoption of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) by physicians, and evaluated clinicians' use of highly explicit computerized protocols. As part of her doctoral dissertation, Shobha developed methods for the detection of adverse drug events in clinical notes. She received a PhD in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. Her research interests are in the area of design, implementation and evaluation of clinical information systems. Key research topics include understanding clinician decision making, knowledge acquisition and engineering, patient safety and development of intelligent clinical information systems.
Dr. Andrew C. Seger currently practices as a Senior Research Pharmacist at the Division of General Medicine & Primary Care at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston MA. He also holds appointments as a Senior Research Pharmacist at Clinical & Quality Analysis, Information Systems at Partners Healthcare Systems and as a Consultant Pharmacist at The Center for Patient Safety at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
He received his BS Pharmacy in 1984 and PharmD in 2003, both from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He is the site co-ordinator for The Specialized Fellowship in Outcomes Research/Pharmacy Informatics at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
He is also an editor of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Ambulatory Care Newsletter and a member of The United States Pharmacopeia’s Medication Error Data Analysis ad hoc Advisory Panel. He is the co-chair of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Pharmaco-Informatics Working Group.
He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences where he currently is teaching “Medication Safety” and a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Pharmacy. He has authored peer-reviewed articles in JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and Drug Safety and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association(JAMIA).
Phillip Stewart, is an Informatics Pharmacist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. He earned his BS in Pharmacy from the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences. Phillip has 27 years of pharmacy practice in various roles. This includes extensive experience in pediatric and adult hospital pharmacy, pharmaceutical sales, project management, web development and informatics. His informatics experience includes: systems specialist with a CPOE implementation team, the pharmacy leader for barcode medication administration project, and Informatics Pharmacist supporting multiple systems and implementations, such as a CPOE interfaced pharmacy system, online nursing documentation and eMAR system, and electronic data repository system.
Mark Sullivan, Pharm.D,MBA, Assistant Director for Satellite Pharmacy Services, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Mark is the Director for VUH Pharmacy Operations at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville Tennessee. He earned his Pharm.D. from the University of Mississippi, his MBA from Belmont University, and his BS Pharmacy from Auburn University. He is board certified in Pharmacotherapy by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties. Mark has practiced in hospital pharmacy in multiple staff, clinical, consulting and management roles over the last 20 years as well as serving as an associate professor for the University Of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. His is on the Admissions Committee for the Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy. He has been responsible for implementation of automated medication vending systems, smart pump infusion systems and served on the team that implemented CPOE and Bedside barcoding at Vanderbilt as well as providing Pharmacy support to the Medication Error reduction effort for VUMC. He is a member of ASHP and ACCP and currently serves on the USP Safe Medication Use expert committee.
Compare and contrast current adverse drug event (ADE) detection methodologies.
Describe how to apply basic research principles to measure the impact of informatics-based interventions on medication safety and patient outcomes.
Explain how population-based reviews of data can be used to measurably reduce the likelihood of ADEs.
List characteristics of a next generation computerized medication safety event reporting system.