To Deprescribe or Not to Deprescribe:
The Role of Health IT in Polypharmacy
Provided by
University of Connecticut School of Medicine and School of Pharmacy Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and Center for Quantitative Medicine
Target Audience: Physicians, Pharmacists, Students, Residents, and other health care professionals with needs, interests or training in Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange
Presenters:
Host: Thomas Agresta MD, MBI, Director of Clinical Informatics - UConn Health
Moderator: Stacy Ward-Charlerie PharmD, MBA, CEO & President - WardRx Consulting
Panelists: Nitu Kashyap MD, FAMIA Associate CMIO - Yale New Haven Health
Scott Bonczek, PharmD, Rph., MSHS-HCQ, ITS Quality & Regulatory Applications Analyst - Hartford Healthcare
Sean Jeffery, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP, AGSF Professor of Pharmacy Practice - UConn & Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services - ICP
This is an application-based activity. Register, here
Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):
1. Discuss the impact of polypharmacy
2. Describe the challenges of de-prescribing
3. Explain the role of Health IT in medication management
4. Explain the SCRIPT standard CancelRx transaction data flow
5. Identify best practices to implement and apply to practice
Accreditation: The University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine designates this live CME activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The University of Connecticut, School of Pharmacy, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a Provider of Continuing Pharmacy Education and will award 0.10 CEU’s (1 contact hours) to pharmacists in attendance who complete an evaluation form; ACPE # 0009-9999-20-048-L05-P CE Statements of Credit will be electronically uploaded to the CPE Monitor system within 24 hours of submission via the learning management system.
Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME/CPE activities provided by the University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine and School of Pharmacy are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content. The activity director, planning committee members, nor the speakers, Drs. Agresta, Bonczek, Kayshap and Ward, have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation.
Dr. Jeffery has a financial interest/arrangement with CVS Health that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of his/her role as a speaker. The following safeguard(s) have been put in place to avoid the insertion of commercial bias into the content: The activity director will restrict the speaker’s presentation to areas outside the area of conflict. Drs. Agresta, Bonczek, Jeffery, Kayshap and Ward will not be discussing the off-labeled use of any product.
This CME/CPE activity has no commercial support associated with it.
Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an electronic evaluation in order to obtain CME Credits. An email from MyEvaluations.com with instructions will be sent to participants. Please complete the evaluation within one week of receiving the email. If you do not receive an evaluation assignment from MyEvaluations.com within 10 business days of this activity, please contact the Department that hosted this activity (indicated above) to ensure that your MyEvaluations.com account is set up and your participation in this activity was forwarded to the CME office.
Funding for this webinar is funded by a grant from the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy, which did not influence
the content of the program.
For more information, contact: Rebecca Burke at burke@uchc.edu