Pharmacy OneSource Announces Free Webinar Debate on Healthcare Technology

Pharmacy face-off to debate merits of BCMA vs. CPOE
By: Pharmacy OneSource, Inc.
 
Sept. 17, 2009 - PRLog -- Bellevue, WA -- Pharmacy OneSource, service provider of the Sentri7 clinical decision support system, is pleased to announce a complimentary online webinar debate, "Pharmacy Face-Off: BCMA vs. CPOE, Which Comes First?"

John Poikonen will take on Steven Rough in our first ever "pharmacy face-off." Pharmacists will debate on Bar Code Medication Administration or Computerized Physician Order Entry and which should be implemented first.

Pharmacy Face-Off: BCMA vs. CPOE, Which Comes First?
DATE: Wednesday, September 23, 2009
TIME: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
WHERE: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/575697243

About the Speakers
John Poikonen, Pharm.D. is the Clinical Informatics Director at UMass Memorial Health Care, an Academic Medical Center and health system in central Massachusetts. His career has been spilt between software development and hospital pharmacy.  He has been a director of pharmacy, software developer, patient safety pharmacist and informatics leader over the last 29 years in pharmacy. Most recently he was elected to the ASHP Executive Committee for Pharmacy Informatics and Technology Section in 2007 and was the recipient of the 2008 Leadership Award from the American Medical Informatics Association.

Steve Rough is the Director of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy. Steve has coordinated and implemented progressive pharmacy services in virtually all practice settings.  He has contributed six textbook chapters and numerous other papers in the pharmacy literature related to pharmacy administration and leadership, medication safety, the application of automation and technology, operational benchmarking and a variety of other management-related topics. In 2003, Steve was the recipient of both the Wisconsin Pharmacist of the Year award and the ASHP Best Practices Award for the paper he submitted describing the impact of point of care bar code medication scanning technology on medication error reduction.

About Pharmacy OneSource (www.pharmacyonesource.com)
Pharmacy OneSource is healthcare's #1 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider. Our more than 70 innovative team members provide best-in-class, SaaS solutions to current and future challenges within health-systems worldwide. Our SaaS solutions contribute to swift and safe healthcare through earlier, easier and better access to data. More than 1,300 healthcare organizations worldwide utilize our HIPAA compliant web-based services: Accupedia, Amplifi, Quantifi, ScheduleRx, Sentri7, Simplifi 797, and UnitStock.
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