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Quality Measurement for Health-System Specialty Pharmacy Practice: Current and Future Trends

Planned in cooperation with the ASHP Section of Community Pharmacy Practitioners and ASHP Section of Specialty Pharmacy Practitioners 

ACPE Activity Number: 0204-0000-22-168-H04-P/T
Release Date: Sept 29, 2022 
Expiration Date: Sept 29, 2025 
Activity Type: Knowledge-based 
CE Credits:  1.0 contact hour, (0.10 CEU)
Activity Fee: Member – Free / Non-Member – Not Available 

This activity is a recording from a live webinar and those that claim credit for the live webinar should not claim credit for this activity.

Activity Overview 

Quality measures in health-system specialty pharmacy practice are intended to evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare processes, create accountability for patient outcomes, and demonstrate the value of pharmacists as crucial members of the care team. As healthcare evolves into value-based models, it is critical to learn about new and upcoming standardized measures. This webinar will explore the measure development process, review new and upcoming measures related to value-based care, and outline measurement evaluation strategies prior to and following implementation. 

Accreditation

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

This activity was planned to meet the educational needs of health-system specialty pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and leaders.   

After completing this activity, the learner should be able to… 

  1. Describe the movement toward value-based care. 

  1. Discuss PQA’s measure development process. 

  1. List standardized performance measures that support optimization of specialty pharmacy practice. 

  1. Identify strategies to improve performance on specialty pharmacy measures. 

  • Introduction and Announcements 

  • Presentation  

  • Questions, Answers, and Discussion 

Lynn Pezzullo, RPh, CPEHR, CPHQ
Senior Director, Quality Innovation
Pharmacy Quality Alliance

Rachel Digmann, PharmD
Senior Director, Performance Measurement
Pharmacy Quality Alliance

Moderator
Gabrielle Pierce, PharmD, MBA
Director, Member Relations,
Section of Specialty Pharmacy Practitioners
ASHP

In accordance with our accreditor’s Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ASHP requires that all individuals in control of content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if they have had a financial relationship with an ineligible company in any dollar amount in the past 24 months and the educational content that the individual controls is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. 

An ineligible company is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The presence or absence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience. 

  • No one in control of the content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship (RFR) with an ineligible company. 

This activity consists of recordings of faculty slides presentations, active learning activities, discussion, and handouts. Participants must participate in the activity in its entirety to claim continuing pharmacy education credit online at ASHP Learning Center. Follow the prompts online to complete the evaluation, claim credit and view the statement of credit immediately after completing the activity. 

Per ACPE requirements, CPE credit must be claimed within 60 days of being earned. Once you have processed and claimed your CE credit, we encourage you to check your NABP eProfile account to verify your credits were transferred successfully before the ACPE 60-day deadline. It is an electronic direct-report process so your credits should appear in your account within a few minutes. After the 60 day deadline, ASHP will no longer be able to report your credit(s) for this activity.