Hospital/Health Systems Specialty Pharmacy Workshop
Gain understanding from leading institutions of best practices and programs that can be implemented to build and grow specialty pharmacy offerings.
MONDAY, September 19th | |
Time | Session/Event |
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Registration/Breakfast |
8:00 AM - 8:15 AM | Welcome |
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM | The Promise of an Improved Specialty Patient and Provider Care EXPERIENCE Delivered by a Health System |
Location: Lafayette 1 | |
Faculty: Nicole Cowgill, PharmD, BCOP, CSP, DPLA (Atrium Health Specialty Pharmacy Service) Gale Fraser, III, DPLA (Atrium Health) Michael Kehr, Jr., PharmD (Atrium Health) John Robicsek, MBA (Atrium Health) | |
This session serves to kick of the day, setting the tone for the day's workshop and exploring the evolving role health system owned specialty pharmacies play in Coordination of Care, Patient Outcomes, and Health System Efficiencies, ALL DONE to drive a single standard of care for ALL, accountability, and transparency. Participants will learn of one health system's approach to a decades long commitment to specialty medication integration of care, as well as the many opportunities /challenges presented along the way that have been/are being/or will need to be addressed in the future. | |
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | A Novel Solution for Specialty Pharmacy Challenges |
Location: Lafayette 1 | |
Faculty: Dusty Lewis, PharmD, MBA (Loopback Analytics) David Mitchell, PharmD, MBA, CSP, FCPhA (UC Davis Health) Neesha Thakkar, PharmD, BCPS (Acentrus Specialty) | |
Describe key access barriers impacting health system specialty pharmacies. Discuss how a network of HSSP working together to standardize disease-state specific outcomes provides an innovative solution to these challenges. Therapy area dashboards designed to understand and improve performance, have utility as a clinical tool, and demonstrate the value that HSSP provide to a variety of stakeholders. Benchmarking ability to share best practices across health systems and advance care. As an activated network, leverage outcomes data to improve access to LDD and payer networks, and support value-based care. | |
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | BREAK |
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | The Natural Evolution of Specialty Pharmacy |
Location: Lafayette 1 | |
Faculty: Brian Lounsbery, RPh, CSP (Avera Specialty and Compounding Pharmacy) Tim Affeldt, PharmD (Fairview Pharmacy Services) Lisa Blanchette, PharmD, MHA (Novant Health) Lesli Goebel, PharmD (Billings Clinic Specialty Pharmacy) Gary Kerr, PharmD, MBA (Baystate Health)) | |
Additional information coming soon! | |
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Infusion Site of Care Considerations |
Location: Lafayette 1 | |
Faculty: Missy Coleman (Omnicell Outpatient Pharmacy Services) Tim Affeldt, PharmD (Fairview Pharmacy Services) Louis Sokos, RPh, MBA (Allied Health Solutions) John Robicsek, MBA (Atrium Health) | |
Infusion site of care considerations will be explored highlighting hospital, ambulatory care and home infusion specific challenges and opportunities. | |
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM | LUNCH |
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM | 340B Program |
Location: Lafayette 1 | |
Faculty: Tim Paine (Blue Fin Group) | |
Additional information coming soon! | |
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Optimizing Data for Operation and Clinical Practices |
Location: Lafayette 1 | |
Faculty: Elizabeth Cherry, PharmD, MMHC, CSP (Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy) Bridget Lynch, PharmD. MS (Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy) Ryan Nix, PharmD, MMHC (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Chelsea Renfro, PharmD (Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy) Kristen Welchel, PharmD, CSP (Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy) | |
This session will be a roundtable discussion covering topics around the drivers for data collection and usage in health system specialty pharmacy, current struggles and future directions. Participants will include pharmacy operations, clinical practice, health IT, research and market access providing diverse perspectives on leveraging data within the health system specialty pharmacy. | |
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | BREAK |
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | The Next Frontier: Expanding Specialty Services to Chronic Disease |
Location: Lafayette 1 | |
Faculty: Lauren Bryant, PharmD, CDCES (Trellis Rx) | |
Providers and payors alike have struggled for years to drive compliance, improve outcomes, and reduce the cost of caring for patients with chronic conditions. But some innovative health systems have turned the corner impacting A1c levels in high risk patients with diabetes by over a 2.3% reduction in A1c, a 20% change from baseline, and reducing all cause readmissions for heart failure by 63%. Attendees at this session will learn how expanding core specialty pharmacy services to address these areas can be the key to success in population health management and value-based care. | |
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Keys to a Successful Hospital-Owned Specialty Pharmacy |
Location: Lafayette 1 | |
Faculty: Doug Massey (CPS - Azina) John Luebker (CPS - Azina) Susan Trieu, PharmD (CPS - Azina) Jill Honhera, RPh (CPS - Azina) | |
Additional information coming soon! | |
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Closing Remarks/Vice Chair Recruitment |