Medication Without Harm - How Digital Healthcare Tools Can Support Providers and Improve Patient Safety
Medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in healthcare, with an estimated 1.3 million people impacted in the U.S. each year. Preventable medication errors cost the nation more than $21 billion annually across all care settings, representing a serious public health concern, as well as an economic burden on our healthcare system. Join AHRQ’s expert panel of speakers to hear how quality improvement approaches and digital healthcare interventions such as clinical decision support tools are reducing medication errors, improving provider effectiveness, and enhancing patient safety in a variety of clinical care settings. CE/CME accreditation of this activity is pending; if approved, eligible providers can earn up to 1.5 CE/CME contact hours for participating in the live webinar.Learning Objectives:At the conclusion of this Webinar, participants should be able to:• Discuss how an e-prescribing tool can reduce medication discrepancies and improve patient safety by enhancing communication between pharmacists and providers.• Identify how clinical decision support systems can significantly reduce the prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications to older patients at the time of discharge from the emergency department setting.• Explain how outcome measures, such as the Wrong-Patient Retract-and-Reorder measure, can be developed and used to detect medication errors in electronic orders.Speakers: Samantha Pitts, M.D., M.P.H. (Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), Camille P. Vaughan, M.D., M.S. (Director, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics & Gerontology, Emory School of Medicine), Jason Adelman, M.D., M.S. (Director, Associate Dean for Quality and Patient Safety, Center for Patient Safety Science, Columbia University).Moderator: James Swiger, M.B.E. (Health Scientist Administrator, Division of Digital Healthcare Research, Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, AHRQ).
