Pharmacy OneSource Announces Free Webinar on Drug Interactions

Reviewing effective strategies to reduce drug interactions 

Bellevue, WA – Pharmacy OneSource, software-as-a-service provider of Sentri7, a real-time patient surveillance, documentation and reporting system, is pleased to announce a complimentary webinar with John Horn, PharmD: "Drug Interactions: An Update for 2010."

Horn will discuss the role of the cytochrome P450 system in drug metabolism. Understanding the pathway of metabolism for an object drug enables one to predict precipitant drugs that are likely to interact. The risk of a potential drug interaction to an individual patient will depend on many factors including genetics, doses of object and precipitant drugs, underlying disease states, and route of drug administration.

Evidence defining the potential risk of a drug interaction is often limited. Numerous factors can alter the outcome of drug interaction studies and these factors need to be carefully controlled to obtain the best data possible. Interactions with conflicting outcome data, including warfarin and clopidogrel, will be discussed to illustrate the factors that can alter the study outcomes.

Drug Interactions: An Update for 2010
DATE: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
TIME: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
WHERE: http://www.pharmacyonesource.com/webinars

About the Presenter: John Horn is a Professor of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy and an Associate Director of the University of Washington Medical Center Pharmacy Services. He has authored over 175 articles related to drug interactions. He is co-author of The Top 100 Drug Interactions; A Guide to Patient Management. Horn has co-authored the reference text Hansten and Horn’s Drug Interactions Analysis and Management for over 20 years.

Horn is one of the founders of the Drug Interaction Foundation that has developed standardized methods of evaluating potential drug interactions and outcome-based criteria for rating the potential significance of drug interactions. He is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, a member of the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, currently Chair of the Drug Interactions Specialty Panel for The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, a member of the editorial board of Pharmacotherapy, and serves as a reviewer for several medical and pharmaceutical journals.

About Pharmacy OneSource (www.pharmacyonesource.com)
Pharmacy OneSource is healthcare’s #1 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider. Our more than 80 innovative team members provide best-in-class, SaaS solutions to current and future challenges within health-systems worldwide. Our SaaS solutions contribute to swift and safe healthcare through earlier, easier and better access to data. More than 1,300 healthcare organizations worldwide utilize our HIPAA compliant web-based services: Accupedia, Amplifi, MedBoard, Quantifi, ScheduleRx, Sentri7, Simplifi 797, and VeriForm.

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