
PQA Annual Meeting: Quality Emerges From the Pandemic, Focused on Access and Equity
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance's 2022 annual meeting will return to an in-person format after 2 years. The meeting with include timely topics: quality beyond the pandemic, health equity, and remote care
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Open to all health care professionals, the meeting is a top forum for learning best practices and emerging trends in medication services, pharmacist-provided care and quality improvement initiatives.
“We are excited to welcome our members, sponsors and stakeholders back to an in-person annual meeting,” said PQA CEO Micah Cost, PharmD, MS. “PQA members have continued to partner with us and each other throughout the pandemic to improve the quality of care, but we all miss the personal connections and innovative ideas that emerge when we learn, network and engage together face-to-face.”
The 2022 meeting will be Cost’s first in-person PQA Annual Meeting since he joined the organization in February 2021. He will open the meeting with an address on the status and future direction of PQA’s work to improve medication use quality. He will then moderate the first general session, which is focused on access. The meeting’s 3 other general sessions are focused on timely topics for the industry: quality beyond the pandemic, health equity, and remote care.
“As we continue to navigate COVID-19–related challenges, it’s important to discuss the impact of the pandemic and the future of medication use quality,” said PQA Education Director Amanda Ryan, PharmD, BCGP, CPHQ. “That’s why value-based care, health equity, and pharmacist-provided care are the guiding concepts for this year’s meeting.”
In addition to the thought-provoking general sessions, the meeting includes 13
Quality improvement education is a hallmark of PQA meetings. This year’s meeting features a pre-conference, half-day workshop on May 3,
Across the meeting, there are numerous opportunities to build business relationships and forge new partnerships in quality. A series of special sessions and innovation theaters will showcase successful approaches, technologies and emerging opportunities to improve medication services.
Rounding out the program is the PQA Annual Meeting Poster Session, which is sponsored by
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