Events Overview
2011 Chicagoland Patient Safety Summit: Innovation, Engagement & Transformation: What are the Opportunities?
Register to attend the Chicagoland Patient Safety Summit on September 15-16 2011 at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center.
The 2011 Chicagoland Patient Safety Summit will be co-convened by Project Patient Care and UIC Institute for Patient Safety Excellence, in collaboration Chicago Medical Society and Chicago Healthcare Executives Forum.
Registration for Chicagoland Patient Safety Summit 2011.
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Archive: "Linking Lab to Pharmacy" Patient Safety Webinars Special 3-Part Series
Starting in November 2010, Project Patient Care hosted a series of three webinars highlighting new research and tools developed by The AHRQ Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy. The topic is reducing patient safety events by improving linkages between lab and pharmacy data.
The live webinar series has concluded. The webinar slides and recorded live events are archived below.
Webinar Topics and Schedule:
Linking Lab to Pharmacy, Part 1: Project overview & Introduction to Project Tools
Thursday, November 4, 2010, 1:30 - 2:30 PM Central Time
Archived here.
Linking Lab to Pharmacy, Part 2: Demonstration of Project Tools
Thursday, November 11, 2010, 1:30 - 2:30 PM Central Time
Archived here.
Linking Lab to Pharmacy, Part 3: Interactive Discussion on Use of Project Tools
Thursday, January 20, 2011, 1:30 - 2:30 PM Central Time
Archived here.
Presenters:
• Bruce L. Lambert, PhD, Professor and Director of Research, UIC Department of Pharmacy Administration; Director, UIC Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics
• Gordon D. Schiff, MD, Associate Professor Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
• William L. Galanter, MD/PhD, Assistant Professor, Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Department of Medicine and Department of Pharmacy Practice, UIC
Who should attend:
- Directors of pharmacy
- Clinical pharmacists
- Staff pharmacists
- Medication safety officers
- Risk managers
- Quality Improvement Directors
- Directors of clinical laboratories
- Directors of medical informatics
- Staff involved with clinical decision support
- Inpatient nurses
- Inpatient physicians and residents
- Pharmacy & Therapeutics committee members
About the UIC CERTs Program: UIC’s College of Pharmacy is one of 14 centers in the CERTs program, authorized by Congress to examine the benefits and risks of therapeutic products; educate patients, consumers, doctors, pharmacists and other clinical personnel; and improve quality of care, while reducing needless costs by increasing appropriate use of therapeutics and preventing adverse effects and their consequences.
This project was supported by grant number U18HS016973 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality