2007 Midyear Clinical Meeting
ASHP Midyear 07 Session Detail
Knowledge Management for Pharmacists in an Informatics Age
Track: Educational Session
Program Code: 217-L04
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Location:
Titian 2201-3/2301-3MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
Dr. John Poikonen, PharmD, Director, Outpatient Pharmacy Services, Umass Memorial Medical Center
MODERATOR:
Dr. John Poikonen, PharmD, Director, Outpatient Pharmacy Services, Umass Memorial Medical Center
PRESENTERS:
Dr. John Poikonen, PharmD, Director, Outpatient Pharmacy Services, Umass Memorial Medical Center
Dr. Jerome Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Healthcare
Mrs. Anne Bobb, BSPharm, Clinical Informatics Pharmacist, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Description
An audience response system will be used in this session. Participation is limited, so arrive early.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Describe how to customize alerts in a computer based provider order entry system.
- Compare the use of a commercial knowledge base with a custom set of rules developed at a hospital.
- Describe the needed governance structure at a health care institution to manage order sets.
- Describe the advantages and pit falls of order sets.