SCOTTSDALE, AZ — (Marketwire) — 02/28/12 — The announced today a free patient safety on best practices for the safe use of Acetaminophen, which will be held Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. EST. The webinar will explore the public health issue, increase awareness about the safe use of the medicine and provide an update on stakeholder actions since the release of the white paper, “.” The webinar is intended for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy application vendors, and medication knowledgebase and compendia vendors, as well as public health, risk managers, and patient safety advocates.
In addition to covering the benefits of Acetaminophen, Gerald K. McEvoy, Pharm. D., assistant vice president of drug information of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and member of the task group that produced the NCPDP white paper, will review NCPDP-s recommendations for improving prescription container labels and provide an update on industry response and actions since the white paper was released in 2011.
“There has been progress over the past several months as pharmacy industry stakeholders have stepped up to address the issue and we are continuing to facilitate movement,” explained Lee Ann Stember, President of NCPDP. “This is an opportunity for the pharmacy industry to demonstrate its ongoing commitment to patient safety, and is evidence of the collaborative effort and successes our industry has achieved in transforming healthcare over the past 35 years.”
To register for the free webinar, sponsored by ScriptChek, visit .
Founded in 1977, NCPDP is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited, Standards Development Organization with over 1,600 members representing virtually every sector of the pharmacy services industry. Our diverse membership provides leadership and healthcare business solutions through education and standards, created using the consensus building process. NCPDP has been named in federal legislation, including HIPAA, MMA, and HITECH. NCPDP members have created standards such as the Telecommunication Standard and Batch Standard, the SCRIPT Standard for e-Prescribing, the Manufacturers Rebate Standard and more to improve communication within the pharmacy industry. Our data products include dataQ, a robust database of information on more than 75,000 pharmacies, and HCIdea, a database of continually updated information on more than 2 million prescribers. NCPDP-s RxReconn is a legislative tracking product for real-time monitoring of pharmacy-related state and national legislative and regulatory activity. For more information about NCPDP Standards, Data Services, Products, Educational Programs and Work Group meetings, go online at or call (480) 477-1000.
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