﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS Generated by www.ashp.org on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:47:33--><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>ASHP Health-System Pharmacy Press Releases and Announcements</title><link>http://www.ashp.org/Import/NEWS/PressReleases.aspx</link><description>ASHP Health-System Pharmacy Press Releases and Announcements</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright2008 ASHP</copyright><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/</docs><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:47:33</lastBuildDate><image><url>http://www.ashp.org/images/ashprss.gif</url><title>ASHP</title><link>http://www.ashp.org/</link><width>57</width><height>34</height></image><item><title><![CDATA[Pharmacy Organizations Partner to Seek Speciality Recognition for Ambulatory Care]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=501</link><description><![CDATA[The American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) joined forces to submit a petition to the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS) seeking recognition of ambulatory care pharmacy practice as a specialty in pharmacy.]]></description><category>Press Release</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=501</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASHP Survey Explores Technology Use in Hospital Pharmacies]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=500</link><description><![CDATA[Use of health information technology is progressing in hospitals in the U.S. as ambitious plans are on the horizon to connect health-system pharmacies with more technological tools that have potential to prevent medication errors, decrease adverse drug events and allow pharmacists more time to provide direct patient care, according to the results of the ASHP National Survey of Informatics: Assessment of the Adoption and Use of Pharmacy Informatics in U.S. Hospitals -- 2007.]]></description><category>ASHP Action Line</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=500</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NQF Showcases ASHP Members’ Medication Reconciliation Program]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=499</link><description><![CDATA[An award-winning medication reconciliation program conducted by American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) members was highlighted as an &#8220;extraordinarily innovative&#8221; example of patient care improvement by the National Quality Forum (NQF) National Priorities Partnership.
  
    The program, &#8220;Bilingual Pharmacy Technician Medication Reconciliation at Hospital Admission Reduces Omissions of Prescribed Medication,&#8221; was conducted by the pharmacy department at 
    Sharp
    Mary
    Birch
    Hospital
     for Women in 
    San Diego
     and 
    Sharp
    Chula Vista
    Medical
    Center
     in 
    Chula Vista
    , 
    Calif.
     and used bilingual pharmacy technicians to reconcile patients&#8217; medications.&#160;]]></description><category>ASHP Action Line</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=499</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASHP CEO Henri R. Manasse, Jr., Announces Retirement Plans]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=498</link><description><![CDATA[ASHP President Kevin J. Colgan announced today that the Society&#8217;s Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Henri R. Manasse, Jr., Ph.D., Sc.D., has indicated that he plans to retire on June 30, 2011, and that the ASHP Board of Directors has initiated a process to select Dr. Manasse&#8217;s successor.]]></description><category>Press Release</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=498</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pharmacist Organization Evaluates Evidence for "Off-Label" Medication Use]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=497</link><description><![CDATA[An enhanced process for evaluating and publishing evidence for &#8220;off-label&#8221; uses of medications has been launched through a collaborative initiative with the Foundation for Evidence-Based Medicine (FEBM) and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), which publishes AHFS Drug Information (AHFS DI).&#160;AHFS DI is recognized by the U.S. Congress as an official compendium for establishing medical acceptance of off-label uses of drugs.&#160;]]></description><category>ASHP Action Line</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=497</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASHP Seeks Clarity on CMS Guidelines Prohibiting Pharmacist-Initiated Protocols]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=494</link><description><![CDATA[ASHP has taken several opportunities to express its concern to the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) that amendments to Hospital Conditions of Participation will prohibit pharmacists from using established protocols and standing orders that prevent adverse drug events, improve patient care and reduce costs.
In a comment letter and on a conference call with agency staff, ASHP encouraged CMS to clarify the guidelines to affirm that pharmacists can initiate actions specified in protocols and standing orders approved by the P&amp;T committee for a patient, and afterwards the patient&#8217;s practitioner can sign the patient&#8217;s chart.]]></description><category>ASHP Action Line</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=494</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahaney Elected President of ASHP]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=493</link><description><![CDATA[ASHP members have selected Lynnae M. Mahaney, MBA, FASHP, chief of pharmacy services at the 
    William 
    S. 
    Middleton 
    Memorial 
    Veterans 
    Hospital
    in 
    Madison
    , 
    Wis.
    , as the Society&#8217;s president-elect. Wayne S. Bohenek, Pharm.D., M.S., FASHP and Lisa M. Gersema, Pharm.D., BCPS, were elected to three-year terms on the ASHP Board of Directors.&#160;]]></description><category>ASHP Action Line</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=493</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASHP Mourns the Loss of Gloria Niemeyer Francke]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=491</link><description><![CDATA[The Board of Directors and staff of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) are deeply saddened by the death of Gloria Niemeyer Francke, who passed away on August 3, 2008.]]></description><category>ASHP Action Line</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=491</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healthcare Leaders Vow End to I.V. Medication Errors]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=490</link><description><![CDATA[Healthcare practitioners, thought leaders, and medication-safety experts met last week for an interdisciplinary summit convened by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) to tackle the critical and urgent need for systems-based solutions to prevent the continuing patient death and harm caused by intravenous medication errors.&#160;]]></description><category>Press Release</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=490</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASHP House of Delegates Takes on Pressing Professional Issues in Seattle]]></title><link>http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=489</link><description><![CDATA[The House of Delegates of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) considered a number of vital professional issues during its 60th annual session, including criteria to determine appropriate pharmacy-department staffing levels, requirements for standardized training for pharmacy technicians, and the disclosure of excipients in drug products.&#160; The session was held June 8 and 10 in Seattle, in conjunction with the Society&#8217;s Summer Meeting.]]></description><category>Press Release</category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ashp.org/import/news/PressReleases/pressrelease.aspx?id=489</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008</pubDate></item></channel></rss>