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The ASHP 2008 Summer Meeting and Exhibition is designed for maximum flexibility, choice, and convenience. Simply choose the right combination of programming for you!

Series Programming

Series programming offers the right level of detail for you by focusing on key aspects of a single topic. From basic to advanced, choose one or more stand-alone sessions in a series to meet your needs!

Informatics Series

The information technology revolution has fueled the demand in hospitals and health systems for accomplished experts who can select, implement and maintain CPOE, BCMA, EHR and other systems. Are you keeping up with this revolution? Have all the information you need to be the project leader for BCMA or CDSS? In this series, wire-in on information technology’s latest and greatest, and explore best practices – and pitfalls – in the evaluation, implementation, and monitoring of IT solutions.
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Quality Standards in Clinical Practice Series

You’ve heard about Pay-for-Performance, but are we really there yet? Regardless, pharmacists are an integral spoke in the quality wheel, and we’re the best equipped to be making key decisions about a patient’s drug regimen. In this series, explore how alternative models can be use in implementing emergency pharmacy services. Understand the need for pharmacy involvement and the various protocols used in glycemic control of patients. Become an expert on anemia management associated with renal disease. Unearth what happens with medications in the ICU and behind the double-doors of the OR, and more, in this six-part series. This session was planned in cooperation with the ASHP Quality Improvement Initiative.
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Anticoagulation Series

How can pharmacists be a part of the process of improving safe use of anticoagulants in both the inpatient and outpatient settings and at the patient and health-system level? Delve into the nitty-gritty, which will focus on a range of ways pharmacists can make a difference. The morning session is didactic in nature. The afternoon session will also have an initial didactic component, followed by breakout sessions.
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Learning Community

Build skills by participating in this year’s Learning Community. The Learning Community is comprised of six sessions for 14 hours of practical, results-driven training.

The Business of Pharmacy Learning Community

When faced with escalating financial responsibility and seemingly out-of-control costs and bottom line pressure, hospital administrators sometimes question the ability of their pharmacy directors to manage the business equivalent of a multi-million dollar business. Underlying this concern are lack of understanding of the complexities of managing pharmacy operations, exception processes that make pharmacy so different from other clinical and operational departments, and the uniqueness that makes pharmacy both a clinical and operational function. All too often, issues surface only after critical incidents trigger doubts regarding the controls in place to manage specific functions, often with painful and disruptive results. These six sessions will address proactive financial and business strategies for health-system pharmacy success and effective integration with organization-wide strategy and communication.
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Hot Topics

Timely as always, these popular sessions cover the top issues in health-system pharmacy and provide you with practical skills you can put to immediate use. Topics will include updates from The Joint Commission, USP <797>, new drugs in primary care, and 340B.
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Posters

Poster sessions encourage meeting attendees to informally discuss current projects in pharmacy practice with colleagues. This is your opportunity to pick up ideas from successful programs that have worked in other health-care systems.

All posters presented at the Summer Meeting are peer reviewed. There are three types of posters. The last letter in the poster presentation number indicates the following types:

Descriptive Report (D): Describes completed new, improved, or innovative roles or services in pharmacy practice; or unusual clinical cases in one or a few patients that have not been formally evaluated, but are of such importance that they must be brought to the attention of practitioners.
Evaluative Study Report (E): Completed original research, including clinical research on drug effects in humans, drug-use evaluations, and evaluations of innovative pharmacy services.
Research-in-Progress Report (R): Uncompleted original research, including clinical research on drug effects in humans, drug-use evaluations, and evaluations of innovative pharmacy services currently in progress.

Under ACPE Guidelines, Summer Meeting poster sessions do not qualify for continuing education credit.

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Symposia

The symposia at the Summer Meeting are sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry and promoted through ASHP Advantage, a division of ASHP, which specializes in developing customized, results-oriented educational symposia in collaboration with industry clients. Continuing education credit for Advantage symposia presented at the Summer Meeting is available through the Advantage CE Request Center.

Many other industry-supported symposia have been scheduled in conjunction with the Summer Meeting. The sponsor is responsible for continuing education credits and content.

View a list of Symposia.