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Virtual Event

Oct 19, 2020 9:55 AM - Oct 20, 2020 5:30 PM

(Eastern Standard Time)

Fort Washington, PA 19034

DIA Annual Canadian Meeting

Session 4 Track B: Patient Centric Approach to Modernizing Medical Product Information: eLabelling and Health Literacy

Session Chair(s)

Tharany  Ganesh, MSc

Tharany Ganesh, MSc

Head, Regulatory Affairs

AstraZeneca Canada Inc., Canada

With increased involvement of patients in their own healthcare outcomes, there is a need to create medical product information that is readily accessible and understandable to both healthcare providers and patients. This session will describe a vision for eLabelling platforms, tools and a blueprint to create health literate patient medication information. Lessons learnt will be relevant to drug developers, healthcare providers, patients and regulators.

Learning Objective : At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
  • Describe the opportunities and challenges of e-labeling for all stakeholders
  • Describe the importance and value of health literacy in creation of patient medication information
  • Describe best practices in implementing e-labeling and health literacy globally

Speaker(s)

Laurie M. Myers, MBA

Case study: Integration of health literacy into the development of patient medication information

Laurie M. Myers, MBA

Merck & Co., Inc. , United States

Global Health Literacy Director

Khyati  Roberts, RPh

Global eLabeling Vision

Khyati Roberts, RPh

Retired, United States

Retired

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