Working with Young People
Liz Azzopardi
0.50 Hours
This session describes the principles of providing sexual and reproductive healthcare to young people. It will not, however, deal with the clinical issues of contraceptive care in young people.
Tough Girl on the Net - Connected Health: A Patient Narrative
Amanda Greene and M. Maxwell Stroud, CPHIMS
1.00 Hours
Two women on a journey to empower the patient experience. One living with Lupus, the other a HealthIT consultant & social worker, together they join forces to understand the power of sharing the patient experience and will explore a patient's relationship to her health data. They will explore a narrative that reaches across care....
Securing Medication Use Analytics and Surveillance in the Cloud
Richard S. Schaefer
1.00 Hours
The Kansas City Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is implementing elements of the analytic and surveillance system in the cloud using an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. This system will address the needs of standardization of care in the VHA’s Ambulatory Care system, improving clinic workflow, efficiency and access....
The Cloud Through the Eyes of a Community Health Center CIO
Larry Allen, CHCIO, CIO, CPHIE and Matt Ferrari
1.00 Hours
Hospitals large and small have arrived at the same conclusion: it’s time to get out of the data center business. Maintaining IT infrastructure internally has become too cumbersome, even while the risk of a data breach grows greater—especially given the chronic shortage of IT security talent. The cloud beckons as a viable alterna....
Transforming Logical Access Control for a Hospital Network
Scott R. Ellis, CISSP, HCISPP, PCIP and Andrew Tarbox
1.00 Hours
St. Luke’s is transforming the process of logical access control from a manual system to an automated system with the goals of improved security, easier to use, more efficient and to be cost effective and privacy enhancing. Growing rapidly, St. Luke’s today has 7 hospitals and 325 locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In 201....
Transitioning to Value-Based Care? Chatbot May Help
Brett Swenson, MD
1.00 Hours
Review sites such as Yelp show that even when patients are happy with the physician, they complain about the front desk. Long wait times over the phone or a misplaced order for a medication refill are some of the common complaints. Unfortunately, front desk work is a demanding job and employees burn out and leave, further worsen....
LGBTI Older People
Deb Shearman
1.00 Hours
Overview; Challenges facing the LGBTI community; Laws and legislation protecting the LGBTI community; Principles of inclusive care and service delivery; Specific health needs of LGBTI older people
Enablement and Optimising Well-being
Ms Deb Shearman
0.75 Hours
Overview; Principles of enablement; Service and service user implications; Implementing an enablement model of care.
The Latest CMS and TJC Telemedicine Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Telemedicine is a popular model for delivering care because of its accessibility and convenience for patients. With its growing popularity, telemedicine has become part of the standard consultation process, meaning providers now have more compliance standards to abide by. During this session, our expert will guide attendees thro....
Why is Aligning Acute and Post-Acute Care Providers Important in Transitional Planning?
Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN and Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN
Transitional planning is no longer a destination but a process. Our experts will discuss Medicare reimbursement challenges case managers face and provide strategies for optimal transitional plans to improve value-based reimbursements and ensure patient safety. Attendees will learn how to engage members of the interdisciplinary c....
The Adoption Gap: Challenges and Strategies in Emerging Technologies
Trey A. La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS and John Showalter, MD, MSIS
1.00 Hours
For more than a decade, the adoption of health information technology in the United States has been dominated by the implementation of large electronic health records, billing, and financial systems. As the disruption caused by the implementation of these systems begins to wane and systems stabilize, new technologies are emergin....
Stacking Predictive Models to Reduce Readmissions
Benjamin M. Cleveland and Rhiannon Harms
1.00 Hours
Far too often analytics efforts have fallen short of making a tangible impact on outcomes because they haven't been successfully implemented in real workflows. Predictive models remain at risk of becoming isolated in their use along the continuum of care where their integration may provide benefits larger than the sum of each si....
The Cybersecurity Risk Management Framework Applied to Enterprise Risk Management
Barry S. Herrin, JD, FACHE
1.00 Hours
The Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force in its June 2017 Final Report recommended a “holistic strategy” that supports both business AND clinical objectives within the healthcare industry. The problem most healthcare enterprises face in acting holistically is that cybersecurity is kept in its own silo, using a unique fr....
Virtual Reality Gets Real in Healthcare
David Metcalf, PhD and Rick Krohn, MA, MAS
1.00 Hours
Recent, real-world case studies in virtual reality (VR) hold promise for medical training as well as operational support. Organizations like the US Army, VA, medical schools, and private hospital systems are exploring new uses. VR is an umbrella term for other areas including augmented reality ("AR") and 3-D. VR and AR technolo....
The Value of the Clinical Narrative in Cancer Care
Jerry Henderson, MD and Michael Clark
1.00 Hours
This session will explore the value of story telling to cancer care, and present intelligent speech technologies deployed by MD Anderson Cancer Center in the EHR to enable the patient narrative to be captured and integrated into care by physicians and patients.
The EHR App Store Is Open – What Is on the Shelf?
Tina Joros, JD / Michael Palantoni / Janet Campbell
1.00 Hours
With just about every EHR vendor staking a claim in “openness” and plug-and-play with startups through APIs, developer portals, and “app stores” that promise to facilitate seamless delivery of third-party apps to empower patients and clinicians, we set out to compare and contrast the business models and underlying processes to u....
The Use of Blockchain to Improve Quality Outcomes
Jason C. Goldwater, MA, MPA
1.00 Hours
The emphasis on defining, measuring and analyzing clinical outcomes of care has never been greater with the emphasis on value-based care and alternative payment models as defined in the Medicaid and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Collecting information on outcomes usually represents a moment in time during a patient encounter....
Food Services to Vulnerable Persons
Deb Shearman
0.50 Hours
Food risk management; Food safety programs; Food safety specific issues; High risk foods
Substance Abuse Family Therapy
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
9.00 Hours
Substance Abuse Family Therapyprovides an introduction to substance abuse treatment and family therapy. It introduces the changing definition of family, explores the evolution of the field of family therapy and the primary models of family therapy, presents concepts from the substance abuse treatment field and discusses the effe....
When Writing a Script Just Isn’t Enough: Strategies to Overcome Barriers Associated with Poor Asthma Control in Older Adults
Dr. Tolly Epstein (MD MS FAAAAI), Dr. Dennis K. Ledford (MD FAAAAI), and Dr. Carol A. Saltoun
1.25 Hours
Provide participants with evidence-based approaches to improve asthma control in older adults, with consideration for both medication and non-medication related strategies. Approaches to distinguish asthma symptoms from co-morbid illness, as well as strategies to safely and effectively manage older asthmatics with particular phy....
The Safety of Asthma and Allergy Medications During Pregnancy: New Horizons
Christina Chambers (PhD MPH), Tamara Johnson (MD MS, FDA), and Jennifer A. Namazy (MD FAAAAI)
1.25 Hours
The purposes of this workshop are to 1) present knowledge gaps regarding the safety of asthma and allergy medications during pregnancy; 2) present the structure and function of the new FDA pregnancy labeling system; and 3) describe the VAMPSS system and show how VAMPSS can fill in knowledge gaps regarding the safety of asthma an....
Telemedicine, the Cost-Effective Alternative: CMS & TJC Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Telemedicine is a popular model for delivering care because of its accessibility and convenience for patients. With its growing popularity, telemedicine has become part of the standard consultation process, meaning providers now have more compliance standards to abide by. During this session, our expert will guide attendees thro....
SIP Core Integration Seminar 2: Family Systems Study and Application
Jim Morningstar, PhD
4.00 Hours
Using the audio download and class text, "Kerr, M. and Bowen, M. Family Evaluation: An Approach based on Bowen Theory, 1998," students will get a foundational understanding of the theory and practice of Family Systems Therapy. Concepts of individuation, triangling, family secrets, multigenerational projection process and others....
Transformational Psychology
Jim Morningstar PhD
16.00 Hours
Beyond an overview of theory this course provides a variety of learning opportunities and leadership skills for integrating spiritual principles into one's career and everyday life with psychologically grounded techniques. Topics include dream mastery, creating a statement of purpose and a yearly holistic life plan, Gestalt lead....