2023 Together - PP207P - Pharmacy Executives and Leaders - On Demand

Pharmacy leaders continue to face a myriad of challenges in today’s environment as healthcare organizations continue to strive to improve clinical care and value across the continuum. Presenters will share how they are tackling these challenges through the financial and workforce lens.   Specifically:   Financial challenges through a variety of projects and programs that touch on billing practices, sterile compounding and drug diversion  Workforce challenges through the intersection of regulatory compliance and use of technology and mitigation strategies around maintaining a robust pipeline of pharmacy staff  Rising to New Heights: Bold Strategies for growing revenue and ensuring patient safety.

Target Audience

  • Healthcare Quality Professionals
  • Healthcare Executives
  • Nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Pharmacy Technicians
  • Physicians
  • Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

  •  Illustrate a plan for advancing technician roles while solving common regulatory compliance issues as part of DSCSA compliance.
  •  Examine the opportunity for strategic advertising of a clinical pharmacy career to a young, diverse student population
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 ACHE
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 ANCC
  • 2.00 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 2.00 General CE - Attendance
  • 2.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
Course opens: 
09/07/2023
Course expires: 
09/22/2024
On Demand
United States

Faculty

Kristen Kruszewski, PharmD, MBA, Director of Pharmacy Strategy, Geisinger, Danville, Pa.

Randy Braun, PharmD, Pharmacist Coordinator, Informatics and Automation, UNC Health, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Eric Marshall, BA, JD, Principal, Leavitt Partners and Executive Director, PDG

Shoshana Krilow, JD, SVP, Public Policy and Government Relations, Vizient (moderator)

Kavish Choudhary, PharmD, MS, Chief Pharmacy Officer, University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships:

 

Relevant Financial Relationships 

Vizient, Inc., Jointly Accredited for Interprofessional Continuing Education, defines companies to be ineligible as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

An individual is considered to have a relevant financial relationship if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

Eric Marshall, JD, speaker for this educational activity, is a consultant for the following companies:

AbbVie; Alexion; Alnylam; American Pharmacists Association (APhA); AmerisourceBergen; Apotex; Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM); AstraZeneca; Bayer; Biogen; Biomarin; Bristol-Myers Squibb; CardinalHealth; CVSHealth; Fresenius Kabi; Genentech; GlaxoSmithKline; Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA); Inmar; International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA); Johnson & Johnson; Merck; Novartis; Partnership for DSCSA Governance (PDG); Pfizer; Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA); Takeda; United Parcel Service (UPS); Upsher-Smith Laboratories; Viatris (formerly Mylan)

 

All relevant financial relationships listed for these individual(s) have been mitigated.

 

All others in a position to control content for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

 

Identification, Mitigation, and Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.

 

It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.

Ineligible companies – those companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
 
FDA Off-Label Use
 
Faculty presenters are also expected to disclose any discussion of (1) off-label or investigational uses of FDA approved commercial products or devices or (2) products or devices not yet approved in the United States.
 

 

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Vizient, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
 
 

Credit Types

Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)

This activity was planned by, and for, the healthcare team, and learners will receive 2.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.

 

Nurses (CNE)

Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.00 ANCC contacts hours.

Pharmacists (CPE)

Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.00 contact hours for Pharmacists. 

Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-23-311-H04-P

Pharmacy Technicians (CPE)

Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.00 contact hours for pharmacy technicians. 

Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-23-311-H04-T

Physicians (CME)

Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Healthcare Executives (ACHE)

By attending the 2023 Connections Summit offered by Vizient, Inc. participants may earn up to 2.00 ACHE Qualified Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.

Participants in this program who wish to have it considered for ACHE Qualified Education hours should list their attendance when they apply to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification. Participants are responsible for maintaining a record of their ACHE Qualified Education hours. To self-report, participants should log into their MyACHE account and select ACHE Qualified Education Credit.

Healthcare Quality Professionals (CPHQ)

This activity is approved by NAHQ® for 2.00 CPHQ CE credits.

Other Healthcare Professionals (General CE Credit)

Vizient, Inc. will award a maximum of 2.00 contact hours to all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity. These individuals will receive a Certificate of Participation indicating the maximum credits available.

Many state licensing boards and credentialing bodies accept certificates of participation from accredited CE activities to meet CE requirements for license renewals and re-certification. It is the responsibility of the participant to contact their state licensing board and/or certifying body for verification on credit eligibility reciprocity.

 

Available Credit

  • 2.00 ACHE
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 ANCC
  • 2.00 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 2.00 General CE - Attendance
  • 2.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
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