European Academy of Hospital Pharmacy (EurAHP): http://www.eurahp.eu/

The website of the European Academy of Hospital Pharmacy (EurAHP) is on the air!

The European Academy of Hospital Pharmacy (EurAHP) is the educational institution of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP). With 21,000 members in 28 countries, EAHP has set up EurAHP to offer European hospital pharmacists:

* A pan-European system of continuing medical education (CME) accreditation
* Accredited modular courses for hospital pharmacists in four key areas (the BEAM initiative):

o Biotechnology
o Evidence-based medicine
o Aspects of compounding
o Management

EurAHP’s mission is to 'strive for excellence in continuing medical education' for the pharmacy profession. In order to achieve this EurAHP has set up two initiatives:

Continuing Professional Development (CPD): EurAHP can offer accreditation for hospital pharmacy educational meetings via Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). With a heritage going back to 1932, this organization provides the US standard for accreditation of pharmacy education and serves as an excellent model and starting point for future pan-European accreditation.

For more information please visit the address: http://www.eurahp.eu/

Congresses for Hospital Pharmacists during 2008

Here are our proposals for the congresses during the year 2008!


ESOP European Society for Oncology Pharmacists
http://www.esop.li/futureevents.php
25 January 2008 - 27. January 2008, Hamburg, The Netherlands






EAHP European Association of Hospital Pharmacists
http://www.eahponline.com/asp/congress.asp?m=5
13th Congress of the EAHP
27 - 29 February 2008, Maastricht, the Netherlands




ESCP European Society of Clinical Pharmacy
http://www.escp-oncology.be/
International workshop ‘the Oncological Patient and the Clinical Pharmacist’, 26-28 May 2008, University Hospital ‘Gasthuisberg’, Leuven, Belgium


ISPOR International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
http://www.ispor.org/Events/Index.aspx?eventId=27
11th Annual European Congress, 8-11 November 2008, Hilton hotel, Athens, Greece





FIP International Pharmaceutical Federation
http://www.fip.org/CONGRESS/basel2008/
World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2008
68th International Congress of FIP
29 August until 4 September 2008, Basel, Switzerland

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Germany - The Electronic Health Card

With the introduction of the new card approx. 80 million people with statutory and private health insurance, 21,000 pharmacists, 123,000 registered doctors, 65,000 dentists, 2,200 hospitals as well as the private and statutory health insurance providers will be connected to each other. A project on this scale is unique in Europe and represents an enormous technical and organisational challenge. That is why the Electronic Health Card will not be able to do everything from the outset. It will be gradually expanded with new functions.

The new Electronic Health Card can do much more: whereas the old Health Insurance Card only had a simple memory chip, the new Electronic Health Card contains a microprocessor chip. This chip is programmable and can execute many different tasks.

For example, prescriptions will no longer be issued on paper in future. They will be made available to you in electronic form with the help of the card.

In addition, you can have personal health data saved using the card. For example, this can be basic medical data for emergency care or documentation of medication taken to inform the doctor or pharmacist treating the patient.

Protection of the data is clearly regulated by means of a comprehensive security concept. An encryption process ensures that information saved about you is always protected against unauthorised access. Furthermore, sensitive health data can be accessed only in conjunction with an electronic Health Professional Card. This is a personal card for doctors, dentists, pharmacists and other personnel with authorised access, for example.

The Electronic Health Card is an important step in the modernisation of health systems; it contains many chances and opportunities. This brochure is designed to give a first overview.

Download:

• "The Electronic Health Card" (.pdf, 294 KB, English version)
• "The Electronic Health Card" (.pdf, 350 KB, German version)
• "The Electronic Health Card" (.pdf, 303 KB, French version)

Published by: Federal Ministry of Health, Public Relations Section, 11055 Berlin, Germany

For further information, please visit:

http://www.die-gesundheitskarte.de

Sources

http://www.ehealthnews.eu/content/view/835/62/

http://www.eahp.eu/asp/monitor_news_detail.asp?ID=110&m=11

Hospital Pharmacist Conference 2008

Hospital Pharmacy Conference 2008 "New directions for pharmacy"

Thursday 31 January 2008

Royal Pharmaceutical Society
1 Lambeth High Street
London
SE1 7JN

Contact
Emma Kerby-Evans
+44 (0)20 7572 2414
email: emma.kerby-evans@pharmj.org.uk

Exhibition/sponsorship
Stuart Thomas
+44 (0)20 7572 2224
email: stuart.thomas@rpsgb.org

Source

http://www.pjonline.com/reports/hp/index.html

The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) Guidance for the Handling of Gene Medicines

A new issue of our favorite journal is out there for us all to read. The EJHP European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy - Practice and the EJHP European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy - Science. The section we like more, the country focus, is dedicated to Sweden (Country focus: Hospital Pharmacy in Sweden).

THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN SWEDEN
CLINICAL PHARMACY IN SWEDEN
APODOS: THE SWEDISH MODEL OF MULTI-DOSE
INTERVIEW WITH JOAKIM PETTERSSON, POLITICAL ADVISER AT THE SWEDISH MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

We think that the the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) guidance for the handling of gene medicines, is very important and an article published once in a decade. We must translate this guide to all the languages of the European Union!

Congradulations to the authors (Arnold G Vulto, PharmD, PhD; Nicola Stoner, BSc (Hons), MRPharmS, Dip Clin Pharm, PhD; Hana Balásová, PharmD; Ana-Cristina Cercos, PharmD, PhD; Torsten Hoppe-Tichy, PhD; Juan L Vinent Genestar, PharmD; Kirsi Kontra, PharmLic; Per Nydert, MScPharm8; András Vermes, PharmD, PhD; Andrea Wolfsberger, PharmD)

The article is here: http://www.eahp.eu/upload/ejhp/CoverStory29-39.pdf