News & Views - Tuesday December 4th, 2007
ASHP President Janet Silvester had an upbeat message for attendees of the 2007 Midyear Clinical Meeting during yesterday's opening session: "When we all work together, there ain't no stopping us now!" . . .
Boon or bane? Automated clinical decision support, computerized provider order entry, bar coding medication administration, and integrated versus interfaced pharmacy systems . . .
Nutritional needs are not being met for all patients in hospitals today. It is estimated that malnutrition is present in over 40% of hospitalized patients and goes unrecognized and untreated in the majority of cases . . .
The purpose of this innovative education program is to demonstrate how basic research principles can be applied to development of rigorous medication-use evaluation (MUE) . . .
ASHP believes that as the use of IT in healthcare expands, and the complexity of medication therapy increases, a correspondingly rapid growth in the specialty practice of pharmacy informatics will continue . . .
Pharmacists seeking to stay abreast of current trends in the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) will not want to miss the Exhibitor Theater entitled, "Management of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Incorporating Treatment Guidelines and Clinical Research Findings into Practice . . .
New educational, regulatory and accreditation requirements have generated fundamental changes . . .
ASHP has added an innovative educational tool to complement its current product line of sterile compounding training . . .
The CE in the Mornings programs will begin with a breakfast buffet from 6:15 a.m. to 6:45 a.m. and be followed by a one-hour educational symposium from 6:45 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. . . .
CareerPharm is the answer to pharmacy directors, recruiters and ad agencies eager to hire top pharmacists . . .
ASHP establishes formal affiliation relationships with state organizations that share ASHP's vision and commitment to advancing hospital and health-system pharmacy . . .
Within the next 6 to 12 months, legislation could be passed defining an abbreviated approval process for generic biopharmaceuticals . . .
More than 11,000 prescription and over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, and minerals are included in this new edition of Consumer Reports Consumer Drug Reference . . .
New ASHP messages illustrating the value of hospital and health-system pharmacists are popping up just about everywhere these days . . .
Creating our own future is exactly what ASHP is aiming for with its Long-Range Vision for the Pharmacy Work Force in Hospitals
and Health Systems . . .
With little formal training, pharmacists are often required to design and execute medication-use evaluations (MUEs). But when MUEs are designed without appropriate understanding . . .
Gene therapy is once again becoming a focus of clinical research. It is expected that pharmacists in a variety of practice settings will become more involved in this unique practice area as the number of gene therapy clinical trials increases in the coming years . . .
The ASHP Pharmacy Practice Sections and New Practitioners Forum (NPF) have created a new Distinguished Service
Award to recognize a member from each Section and NPF whose volunteer activities supported the mission of their Section or NPF and helped advance the profession . . .
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