WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: September 22, 2011 Featuring: Frank Federico, RPh, Executive Director, Strategic Partners, Institute for Healthcare Improvement​ Michael R. Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD, FASHP, President, Institute for Safe Medication Practices Lynn Eschenbacher, PharmD, MBA, Assistant Director of Clinical Services and Director PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program, WakeMed Health and Hospitals   Medication safety has gotten a lot more challenging in the past year or so, due to circumstances health care providers can’t typically predict or control: a growing, critical shortage of prescription drugs, hundreds of them, including mainstay generics hospitals use to treat several forms of cancer.  News organizations have begun to pay attention to the trend because of the tough decisions providers and patients now face when preferred treatments for certain types of aggressive leukemia or testicular cancer aren’t available. A recent story on The PBS NewsHour offers one of the more comprehensive looks at the underlying industry prac