USING PHARMACY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE PATIENT OUTCOMES AND SAFETY: UPDATE ON DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
Tuesday 31st of August 2010
14:00-17:00
G6, 3 hours
Organised by the FIP Pharmacy Information Section
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, the participants will be able to:
- summarize the evidence supporting the use of information technologies in improving safety and improving patient outcomes;
- describe one approach to developing an IT system to support systematising care and recording patient outcomes;
- describe tele-pharmacy services including: where they are established, the equipment required, training involved, and the types of pharmacy services available;
- summarize key information technologies being investigated and implemented in pharmacies in order to improve communication and patient care for the following countries: United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Portugal and Ghana.
Chairs: Lindsay McClure, Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC), United Kingdom and Christie Robinson, University of California – San Francisco (UCSF), USA
Programme:
- Developing IT Support to systematize the delivery of pharmacy services (Mirixa), Patrick Reid, Pharmacy Guild of Australia, Australia
- Use of tele-pharmacy to increase access to pharmacy services, Emily Alexander, Envision, USA
- Coffee break
- Use of IT to support Pharmaceutical Care, The Netherlands perspective, Rian Lelie-van der Zande, Royal Dutch Association for the Advancement of Pharmacy (KNMP), The Netherlands
- Use of IT to support Pharmaceutical Care, The Ghana perspective, Alexander Dodoo, Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, Ghana
- Use of IT to support Pharmaceutical Care, The Portugal perspective, Carmen Inês, National Association of Pharmacies, Portugal
- Use of IT to support Pharmaceutical Care, The United Kingdom perspective, Lindsay McClure, PSNC, United Kingdom