ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition - American Society of Health System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) kicked off its annual Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition this Saturday in Anaheim, California.

It might seem a bit odd to discuss ASHP Midyear before the holidays, but it’s never too soon to start looking ahead.

ASHP’s 2018 Midyear Clinical Meeting is set to begin, and Pharmacy Times will be on site covering it.

Recommendations for how to address the issue have not been limited to the panel discussions.

The American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists 2018 Midyear Clinical Meeting is right around the corner, and Pharmacy Times will be on site in Anaheim, CA to cover the conference.

Given the crucial role that pharmacists play in promoting and ensuring medication safety, it is important to that they remain educated on common medication errors and ways to prevent them, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

In this clip, Mathen talks about why he wanted to share his hospital's experience with the technology and how it can potentially help other hospitals approach the implementation process.

At the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition, Andrea White, PharmD, Pharmacy Administrative Resident at Texas Children's Hospital, discussed her presentation on Baxter's DoseEdge System, including the implementation process that Texas Children's Hospital underwent to adopt the new technology in their institution and assess the system's benefits.

To ensure the safe infusion of high-alert medications, titrations need to be protected from harmful dosing changes, according to a poster presentation at the 2017 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition.

The understood link between diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) has played a key role in shaping clinical trials on diabetes medications, according to a presentation at the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition.

Dr. Baird said that it is important for pharmacy professionals to embrace these changes in technology, and he offered some advice for how to go about embracing the changes.

Pharmacists at Oklahoma State University Medical Center (OSUMC) are fighting infectious diseases with cutting-edge technology.

In this clip, Baxter Pharmacy Consultant Jason Demuth discusses the importance of building a master library for smart pumps.

Although administering intravenous (IV) medication via smart infusion pumps has led to improvements in patient safety, common errors persist with the use of these devices, according to a presentation at the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition.

At the ASHP Midyear 2017 meeting, Amy Westmoreland, pharmacy manager and clinical pharmacist at Carilion Giles Community Hospital discusses the importance of collaboration between hospital pharmacists and physicians.

Current pharmacy technician members of ASHP will be automatically incorporated into the forum.

ASHP officials took time to recognize some of their own.

Several people were honored this week at Baxter Healthcare Corporation’s Leadership Excellence Awards in Pharmacy, or LEAP, ceremony.

ASHP’s 2017 Midyear Clinical Meeting is set to begin, and Pharmacy Times will be on site covering it.

The first feature is Baxter’s Infusion Analytics application, a software solution that provides advanced infusion data analysis and graphical reporting to help identify potential pump programming errors. The second is a suite of Remote Professional Services that offers 24/7 service.

If you want to work as a clinical hospital pharmacist, you better pursue a residency.

Timesaving is key, as pharmacists are routinely being asked to do more with less in the hospital setting.

The Director of Pharmacy Services at Peninsula Regional Medical Center, chats with Pharmacy Times adding another layer of safety to compound parental nutrition doses.

It’s crucial for pharmacists to be aware of medications associated with high risk for error and harm to patients, and to look for best ways to implement practices for improving safety and patient care.

In this video, Fred Massoomi, PharmD, discusses the importance of educating future pharmacists about the importance sterile compounding.

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Similar to smartphone updates, cumbersome drug library updates prevent the drug library from being useful to clinicians.

Regardless of some challenges, one health care system, which is comprised of 16 hospitals ranging from large academic settings to rural locations, has seen success with centralized PN compounding.

Health-system pharmacies can regulate cost-effective and efficient operations for parenteral nutrition compounding practices. Laura Mark, MS, PharmD, FASHP, led a tech talk at the Baxter Booth at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting to discuss parenteral nutrition compounding practices.