Pharmacy OneSource Announces Free Webinar on Pediatric Medication Safety
Elora Hilmas to provide suggestions for how pharmacists can promote medication safety for pediatric patients

BELLEVUE, WA, July 18, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Pharmacy OneSource, service provider of the Accupedia pediatric drip ordering system, is pleased to announce a complimentary webinar presented by industry expert Elora Hilmas, PharmD, BCPS, to review medication safety challenges faced by pediatric patients as they transition through inpatient and outpatient care.

A report last week out of Johns Hopkins underscores that the problem of pediatric medication safety is still very much with us. In their analysis of 821 pediatric medication errors, they found that half of these were in patients less than 1 year of age, 90% of these in patients less than 6 months.

Medication safety solutions will be reviewed along with suggestions for how pharmacists can promote medication safety for pediatric patients.

Pediatric Medication Safety Across the Continuum of Care
DATE: Tuesday, July 28, 2009
TIME: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
WHERE: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/788883355

About the Speaker
Elora Hilmas, PharmD, BCPS is currently the PGY1 Residency Coordinator at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and completed her PGY1 and Pediatric PGY2 residencies at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Elora has presented three times at the Annual Maryland Patient Safety Conference and has taught a lecture in the Medication Safety Elective offered at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She is a co-inventor of Pharmacy OneSource's Accupedia product and has won a Healthcare Hero award in the category of Advancements in Health Care from the Baltimore Daily Record for her work on standardizing concentrations.

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