"The unSummit is proving to be far more than a good idea. In fact, its success is demonstrating the impressive progress in patient safety that can occur when one focuses busy healthcare leaders on one finite solution at a time. While the center of the unSummit's universe is barcoding at the bedside, the form of the symposium is a highly effective means of bringing collective intellect to bear on proven solutions before progressing to the next battle."

John Nance
Aviator and Human Factors Expert
Seattle, WA



The unSUMMIT - Get to the point. 2008
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Keynote Address
Understanding Culture at the Point of Care
Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, RC, MN

A popular author and inspiring storyteller—Speak Your Truth, Ending Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility, and Stressed Out—Kathleen helps caregivers understand bedside culture, write their own stories, and create harmonious, nurturing environments where colleagues work collaboratively for the good of their patients.

ARRA Funding and Its Impact on Medication Safety

Manisha Shah | Vice President of Programs | National Patient Safety Foundation

Pharmacy-Related Automation in the Acute Care Setting from Receiving Dock to Bedside Medication Administration
David Butler | President | Heartland Innovations, LLC

Alert, Alert, Alert! Effective Layering of Clinical Decision Support Tools of a Hospital’s Medication Delivery System

Christopher Woodruff | Director of Clinical Information Systems | Bon Secours Health System Inc.

Implementing BCMA for Chemotherapy: What Was Different?   

Anne Bane | Nurse Manager, Clinical Systems Innovations | Brigham and Women's Hospital
Tom Cooley | Assistant Director of Pharmacy | Brigham and Women's Hospital

Barcode Basics: Reading and Printing   

Mike Wisz | President | Mike Wisz & Associates

Alternatives to Barcodes in Medication Administration - RFID and RTLS   

Dennis Tribble | Chairman |
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Section on Pharmacy Informatics and Technology

System Deployment of MedSafe

Perry Flowers | System Executive | Memorial Hermann

VA: 10 Years of Innovation with Barcode Medication Administration   

Ronald Schneider | Pharmacist Consultant | Department of Veterans Affairs

Inhouse Barcoding and Packaging Solutions in a Multi-Hospital, Multi-Region System

Richard Malone | Director of Pharmacy Operations | Vanguard Health System

Medication Repackaging: Inhouse or Outsource? That Is the Question

Noel Hodges | Division Director of Pharmacy Services | HCA Supply Chain Services - Central Atlantic Supply Services Richmond, VA

BCMA Optimization in a 163-Hospital Group   

Connie Saltsman | EHR Pharmacy Expert Lead | Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
Karla Miller | Director of Pharmacy Services | Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)

Overcoming Barriers to Barcoding   

Lachelle Below | Staff Pharmacist | Rice Memorial Hospital

Meaningfully Training for Bedside Barcoding

Carol Bair | Educator/Trainer | Midland Memorial Hospital
Randy Adams | Pharmacy Systems Coordinator | Midland Memorial Hospital

The 3 P's of Successful BCMA Implementation: Pharmacy/Nursing Collaboration, Parallels, and Persistence

Margie Sipe | Nursing Performance Improvement Innovator | Lahey Clinic

It's All in the Outcomes!

Leah Wright | Director of Nursing Informatics | Jefferson Regional Medical Center

Small-Hospital Bedside Barcode-Systems Implementation

Charles Still | Project Manager | Southwestern VT Health Care

Multi-Site Organization Up Live - Still Alive!   

Joseph Coyne | Vice President of Pharmacy Services | Cancer Treatment Center of America

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at BPOC

Richard Malone | Director of Pharmacy Operations | Vanguard Health System
Tom Cooley | Assistant Director of Pharmacy | Brigham and Women's Hospital

Frontline Perspectives on BPOC

Tina Suess | Bridge System Administrator | Lancaster General Hospital
Anne Bane | Nurse Manager, Clinical Systems Innovations | Brigham and Women's Hospital
Margie Sipe | Nursing Performance Improvement Innovator | Lahey Clinic

Straight from the FDA Horse's Mouth
Mark Neuenschwander | President | The Neuenschwander Company
Jay Crowley | Senior Patient Safety Advisor | Food and Drug Administration

Barcode Patient Identification for Specimen Collection: More Than Patient Safety
April Bashaw | Outreach/Pathology/Business Manager Laboratory Sciences | Southern Regional Health System

Intravenous Interoperability: Combining Intelligent Infusion, BPOC, and eMAR
Tina Suess | Bridge System Administrator | Lancaster General Hospital

Observation-Based Medication Error Detection

Timothy Martin | Director of Pharmacy | DCH Health System

It’s Not “Sophie’s Choice”: Creating and Sustaining a Work Process That Enhances Medication Safety at the Point of Care

Barbara Olson | Director of Patient, HCA | Florence 2.0 Healthcare Solutions

Post-conference Workshop

Hands On and Heads Up: An unSUMMIT Lab Practical on Enabling Technologies for BPOC
Moderator: Mike Wisz | President | Mike Wisz & Associates
Panelists:
Christopher Woodruff | Director of Clinical Information Systems | Bon Secours Health System Inc.
Leah Wright | Director of Nursing Informatics | Jefferson Regional Medical Center
Ronald Schneider | Pharmacist Consultant | Department of Veterans Affairs
Charles Still | Project Manager | Southwestern VT Health Care




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