AMIA 2002 Spring Congress

TUTORIALS

The pre-conference tutorials provide in-depth knowledge about topics congruent with the theme of the AMIA Spring Congress.
Tutorials are scheduled for Monday, May 20, 2002
8:30 am - 10:30 am

There is a separate registration fee required for tutorials.

	Full Congress registrant:	Tutorial Only registrant:
Early bird rate (before 3/31)	$95	$175
Advanced rate (before 5/1)	$135	$235
On-site rate (after 5/1)	$175	$295

Tutorial 1 - Medication Ordering & Prescribing Systems
Instructor: Jonathon Teich, MD, PhD - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA;
Healthvision, Waltham, MA

Medication Ordering and Prescribing Systems
This tutorial will offer a comprehensive overview of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems and prescription writing systems, as used for ordering medications in the inpatient and outpatient environments. Properly designed and implemented, CPOE has been shown to provide significant reductions in medication errors, adverse events, and costs. However, it is still viewed with trepidation, due to concerns about training requirements, disruption of existing workflow patterns, and extra time spent in ordering. Successful implementation of medication ordering/prescribing requires excellence both in design and the system and in the ability to guide an organization through cultural change.
The tutorial will cover a broad range if issues including:

Key functionality
Design features of usable, workflow-friendly systems
Similarities and differences between inpatient and outpatient medication ordering connectivity to pharmacies, formularies, and PBM's
Use of Web-based and handheld platforms and
Project management strategies before, during, and after implementation.

Special emphasis will be given to the structure, design, and impact of clinical decision support modules for improving patient safety and reducing costs.

Tutorial 2 - What's in a (Drug) Name?
Instructors:
Barry H. Blumenfeld, MD - Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA
Carol A. Broverman, PhD - Fast Track Systems, San Mateo, CA

What's in a (Drug) Name? Requirements for a Multi-usage Drug Terminology to Eliminate Drug Babel
Studies on the effectiveness of medication decision support, problems aggregating drug-related data, and the recent focus on bioterrorism have highlighted the importance of codifying and using drug information in electronic form. Drug information is collected and utilized to support a wide array of functions in a variety of different systems and settings. Each venue has different requirements when it comes to the representation of drug concepts. The lack of a rich, multi-faceted standard national medication information model or terminology challenges effective data aggregation and makes the use and sharing of medication information between such systems problematic.

This tutorial will focus on the following issues:

What is the broad array of usage for drug concepts in medication-related consumer and professional applications, and what are the respective requirements?
What are the characteristics of an information model for medications and the terminology sufficient to support these requirements?
What data sets and terminologies are currently available from vendors or public sources, and what are their relative merits?
What efforts are underway to define and distribute a basic set of descriptive medication data elements at national and international levels?

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