Healthcare Industry Events

Webcast | Selecting an Automated External Defibrillator: What You Need to Know Subtitle: Subtitle 2: Recording Available

Overview Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) gained popularity in the 1990's and are now common in many places. Manufacturers have continued to add features to improve the technology, but ...

Webinar | Pathogen X: The Next Public Health Concern

Overview First appearing on the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Current Priority Disease List in 2018, Pathogen X represents the knowledge that the next public health concern or global pandem...

Importance of Premarket Labeling and Packaging Safety Evaluations in Minimizing Postmarket Medication Errors

Medication errors reported by healthcare practitioners to the ISMP National Medication Errors Reporting Program (ISMP MERP) demonstrate the need for the pharmaceutical industry to be more proactive...

Webinar | Cancer Genetic Testing: Promises, Challenges, and the Need for Evidence

Overview Genetic testing is ubiquitous and increasingly available in healthcare. Genetic tests analyze genes, proteins, or combinations of DNA, RNA, and proteins, and are intended to provide pa...

Webinar | Telehealth: Utilizing Adverse Event Data to Proactively Identify and Mitigate Risks

Overview Telehealth has been a steadily growing part of healthcare for years. Recently, during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth grew at an exponential rate. Per the Centers for Disease Control...

Webinar | The Value of Patient Safety Organization (PSO) Participation

Overview The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act) authorized the creation of Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) to improve healthcare quality and safety by w...

ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment® for Perioperative Settings: How to Obtain the Most Valuable, Accurate, and Useful Results

The perioperative setting is one of the most medication-intensive areas in healthcare, often with more medications administered per patient than in any other patient care setting. The limited use o...

Webinar | Enhancing Safety in Perioperative Care: Collaborative Informational Session

Overview Patients’ surgery needs drives a large part of healthcare utilization. But when things go wrong during surgery, patients can experience serious harm. Despite ongoing safety efforts, su...

Webinar | Telehealth: Key evidence, risks, and potential for disruption

Overview Telehealth makes it easier to provide safe and accessible care to patients. Its use has grown rapidly during the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth became a top priorit...