2026 DHA CPC: Applied Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: From neural networks to the pharmacy workflow — a practical guide for pharmacists

October 27, 2026

For more information about this activity, please contact Dawn Soulati at [email protected].

Target Audience

This activity provides continuing education for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians across the Military Health System (MHS). A certificate of attendance is available for other attendees.

Learning Objectives

  1. Differentiate artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs), and explain in plain terms how LLMs are trained and generate text.
  2. Apply the CO-STAR-E framework and related prompt-engineering tactics to construct effective clinical prompts.
  3. Identify key risks of generative AI in clinical practice, including hallucination, automation bias, and protected health information (PHI) exposure, and the corresponding safeguards.
  4. Describe current AI platforms relevant to pharmacy practice, including Ask Sage, OpenEvidence, UpToDate Expert AI, and medication-safety AI such as MedAware and DoseMeRx.

Course summary

Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE-Pharm

    UAN:
    No valid paper/electronic statement of credit will be offered. DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing education for Pharmacists. This knowledge-based activity will provide a maximum of 1.00 contact hours of pharmacy continuing education credit. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. There is no cost to participate in this activity.

  • 1.00 ACPE-Tech

    UAN:
    No valid paper/electronic statement of credit will be offered. DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing education for Pharmacy Technicians. This knowledge-based activity will provide a maximum of 1.00 contact hours of pharmacy continuing education credit. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. There is no cost to participate in this activity.

  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
10/19/2026
Course expires: 
11/12/2026
Event starts: 
10/27/2026 - 1:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
10/27/2026 - 2:00pm EDT
Part of: 
2026 DHA POD Clinical Pharmacy Course
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CPT Chuck Hennes, Pharm.D., MHIT. Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose.

Portions of this activity were developed with assistance from Claude V1.19367.0 on 07/08/2026 for image generation and formatting. All AI-assisted outputs were reviewed and verified by Chuck Hennes / Presenter for accuracy, balance, and independence prior to release. Prompts/outputs were stored outside the organization.

Disclosures: DHA J-7 staff, planners, authors, faculty, and content reviewers for this educational activity have no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose. No commercial support was provided for this activity.

 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE-Pharm

    UAN:
    No valid paper/electronic statement of credit will be offered. DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing education for Pharmacists. This knowledge-based activity will provide a maximum of 1.00 contact hours of pharmacy continuing education credit. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. There is no cost to participate in this activity.

  • 1.00 ACPE-Tech

    UAN:
    No valid paper/electronic statement of credit will be offered. DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing education for Pharmacy Technicians. This knowledge-based activity will provide a maximum of 1.00 contact hours of pharmacy continuing education credit. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. There is no cost to participate in this activity.

  • 1.00 Attendance
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Requirements:  CE/CME certificates are awarded to MHS participants who fully complete the activity, successfully submit the evaluation survey, and pass the posttest with a minimum score of 80% unless noted otherwise. The deadline to claim credit is Nov 12, 2026.

Access Code/Accommodations: Some activities require an access code to register or claim CE/CME credit. For inquiries regarding the access code or accommodations, please email Soulati, Teresa D (Dawn) CIV DHA 88TH MDG (USA) at [email protected]. 

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There is no cost to participate in this activity.
 

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