No Signal, No Problem: Predictive Preparedness for Pharmacy Downtime

October 7, 2026

Virtual Activity

This live activity is available to Houston Methodist employees and students only.

 

 

Target Audience

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
This activity is open to all Houston Methodist health care professionals.

 

Learning Objectives

For Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians:
1. Apply evidence-based preparedness strategies to maintain safe medication-use processes during pharmacy technology downtime
2. Evaluate the appropriate role of AI-assisted predictive analytics as an emerging support for pharmacy downtime planning
3. Formulate the data and validation requirements necessary to responsibly train predictive analytics tools for pharmacy downtime preparedness

Course summary

Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist

    Houston Methodist Hospital is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

    Participants documenting completion of the activity will receive up to 1.00 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit as activities for pharmacists.

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  • 1.00 ACPE Technician

    Houston Methodist Hospital is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

    Participants documenting completion of the activity will receive up to 1.00 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit as activities for pharmacy technicians.

    Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Logo

  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
09/29/2026
Course expires: 
11/08/2026
Event starts: 
10/07/2026 - 12:00pm CDT
Event ends: 
10/07/2026 - 1:00pm CDT
Zoom

 

The Zoom link will be provided in the course instructions when you log in to the program.

Speaker: 
Ivann Agapito, PharmD
PGY2 Pharmacy Informatics Resident
 

Content Preceptors:

Ghalib Abbasi, PharmD, MS, MBA

Jane Scott, RPh, BS Pharm

The speaker and preceptors do not have anything to disclose in relation to the subject matter of this presentation.

 

Houston Methodist Hospital is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Participants documenting completion of the activity by attending the lecture, participating in the learning assessment, and completing an evaluation form within 30 days will receive 1.0 contact hour (0.1 CEU) of continuing pharmacy education credit as an application-based activity for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

 

 

UAN:0478-0000-26-022-L04-P, 0478-0000-26-022-L04-T

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist

    Houston Methodist Hospital is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

    Participants documenting completion of the activity will receive up to 1.00 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit as activities for pharmacists.

    Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Logo

  • 1.00 ACPE Technician

    Houston Methodist Hospital is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

    Participants documenting completion of the activity will receive up to 1.00 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit as activities for pharmacy technicians.

    Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Logo

  • 1.00 Attendance
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