Description

NARUG Lunch & Learn Series

Meducation®: Personalize and Simplify Medication Regimens

Presented by:

Charles Lee, MD & Jeff Flake

Summary:

Medication adherence refers to the extent to which patients take medications as prescribed by their health care providers. Non-adherence is estimated to cost more than 100 billion dollars in avoidable hospitalizations yearly.  A survey by the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) found that 76% of patients reported one or more non-adherence issues. This presentation will discuss medication non-adherence with a particular focus on addressing patients with low health literacy and limited English proficiency.  Interventions that address low health literacy, laws and regulations at state and federal levels, and potential technical solutions for multi-language prescription labeling will be discussed.

Key Objectives:

• Attendees will be able to explain health outcomes resulting from an inability to understand prescription instructions due to low health literacy and limited English proficiency and proven clinical interventions
• Attendees will be able to describe the current federal and state laws that require the provision of language services at pharmacies
• Attendees will be able to describe the challenges and potential solutions to providing multi-language prescription instructions

BIOS:

Charles Lee, MD

Senior Director, Clinical Knowledge for FDB (First Databank), Adjunct Assistant Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Dr. Charles Lee has been a leading national advocate for simplifying and making medical information more understandable for patients.  Dr. Lee is an internal medicine physician and past National Library of Medicine fellow in medical informatics at UNC/Duke.  His professional goal is to leverage technology to improve communication between our healthcare systems and patients.  He has extensive experience in patient-centered healthcare communication, language barriers, health literacy, and instructional design. Dr. Lee is a senior director and advisor on health literacy and language barriers at First Databank (FDB). He is also an adjunct assistant professor at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy where he is involved in research to improve teen health self-proficiency as they transition into adulthood.

Jeff Flake

Application Success Manager, Meducation

Jeff Flake serves as an Application Success Manager for FDB Meducation, leading a high-functioning team of integration engineers and project managers to integrate software that improves clinical workflow and outcomes for our customers and their patients. He is passionate not only about helping ensure the successful launch of FDB Meducation but also about delivering tools to healthcare users that support health literacy and medication adherence.

Joining FDB in 2018, Jeff brings deep expertise in healthcare and SaaS implementations for hospitals throughout the US. He has held similar roles in technical operations previously at IBM, Truven Health Analytics, and Thomson Reuters.

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Disclosure:

This Webinar is free of charge. The NARUG group receives nominal compensation from the Webinar sponsor that helps to offset operating costs. There are no Continuing Education Credits being offered. By registering you agree to share your information with the vendor presenting.