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Joint Commission of Pharmacy PractitionersMEMBER ORGANIZATION UPDATESDuring this portion of the meeting each organization is provided an opportunity to provide an update on activities. We ask that organizations providing updates focus their brief discussions on activities being undertaken that advance progress in one or more of JCPP’s Vision Action Plan (Patient Care Process, Pharmacy Quality, Value of Pharmacists’ Patient Care Services, HIT, Provider Status Recognition). This discussion will serve as JCPP’s process for monitoring the progression of its Action Plan. Please bring hard-copies of this form for meeting attendees and include within the form links to material vs bringing hard copies to ANIZATION: ASHPAction Plan Implementation Activity:Pharmacy QualityRecently published AJHP articles:Report of the ASHP Opioid Task Force. The Task Force met in October 2019, with the report released on May 28: Report of the ASHP Opioid Task Force, American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, zxaa117, monitoring guidelines:Rybak MJ, Le J, Lodise TP, et al. Therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin for serious methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections: A revised consensus guideline and review by ASHP, IDSA, PIDS and SIDP, Am J of Health-Syst Pharm, Vol 77, Issue 11, 1 June 2020, Pages 835–864, was selected to serve on the NQF Same-Day Access Measurement for Primary Care Technical Expert PanelHealth Information TechnologyRecently published AJHP articles:Nelson SD, Walsh CG, Olsen CA, McLaughlin AJ, et al. Demystifying artificial intelligence in pharmacy,?American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy,? Organization Update (other information):ASHP Board of Directors unanimously approved the creation of an ASHP Task Force on Racial Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to advise ASHP on specific, actionable steps to further address and take inventory of matters of racial diversity, equity, and inclusion. The task force will begin meeting in August.ASHP, AHA, AMA, and USP co-convened a virtual summit on Safe, Effective, and Accessible High-Quality Medicines as a Matter of National Security. The week long summit discussed the current state and challenges of foreign manufacturing, national security and sourcing, production and quality, international partnerships, and will conclude with recommendations to protect the safety and quality of the U.S. drug supply. ASHP created a new Section of Pharmacy Educators. The Section will enhance ASHP’s ongoing efforts to help support the preparation of the pharmacy workforce. ASHP formed Pharmacy Executive Leadership Alliance (PELA), a new initiative from ASHP for chief pharmacy officers and multi-hospital system pharmacy executive leaders. PELA will hold its first virtual meeting Fall 2020.ASHP has selected Jessie Hipple and Rena Sackett as the 2020–2021 Executive Fellows in Association Leadership and Management. The fellows started July 13, 2020.ASHP created the COVID-19 Resource Center which is updated regularly and includes open-access, evidence-based resources and tools for pharmacists and healthcare professionals.ASHP published “Patient Surge Management During a Pandemic,” a toolkit for hospital and health system pharmacy leadership. Topics include pre- and post-executive emergency orders, patient population drug utilization needs, pharmacy workforce management, and facility surge models, as well as ASHP, FEMA and ASPR resources.ASHP held a series of virtual roundtables addressing COVID-19 business recovery May 1-7, 2020. The participants included multi-hospital health system pharmacy vice presidents and chief pharmacy officers as well as an advisory group and committees of the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders. The summary was recently published in July 2020. ASHP launched the “COVID Care Certified,” a 15-hour course to prepare pharmacists and pharmacy technicians for managing clinical and operational challenges during this pandemic. This is part of the ASHP’s COVID-19 resources designed to support those on the front lines of patient care.ASHP launched a Pharmacy Revenue Cycle Management and Medication Reconciliation certificate to teach pharmacy personnel the fundamental concepts relating to these two topics. These self-guided, online continuing education program is the thirteenth and fourteenth offering in ASHP’s Professional Certificate line.ASHP convened an interdisciplinary stakeholders commission to prepare the healthcare workforce for a digital future at ASHP headquarters on March 3rd. Organizations represented include Digital Therapeutics Alliance, Omnicell, IBM Watson, AHA, ANA, AMA, AAMC, and AAPL. Proceedings are to be published in AJHP.ASHP’s 2020 Pharmacy Residency Match concluded with 5,269 individuals who matched. This number includes 498 positions filled by the Early Commitment Process. The overall position fill rate was 99.1% for both phases of the Match. ................
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