Introduction to Development Part 2: Assessment and Referral
Dilip Nathan
0.50 Hours
This session will outline the developmental assessment of children up to the age of five.
Health Promotion in Pregnancy (Smoking) Part 2: Health Promotion Approaches and Actions
Lydia Oliver
0.50 Hours
This is the second of two health promotion smoking cessation sessions. This session will examine smoking cessation health promotion approaches and actions, the behaviour change model, and applying the model of behaviour change.
Heart Murmurs in Children
Soumendra Chowdhury
0.50 Hours
This session reviews the different types of heart murmurs that can commonly present in children.
Migraine as a TIA Mimic
Nicola Giffin
0.50 Hours
This session will explore the pathogenesis of migraine with aura, the visual, sensory and motor symptoms that may present and how to differentiate migraine with aura from TIA.
Genitourinary Disease: Loin Pain
Sapna Patel and Andrew Ballaro
0.50 Hours
This session will enable the student to identify various patterns of loin pain and the associated differential diagnoses. It will discuss in more depth renal/ureteric calculi, relevant investigations and requirements for surgical intervention.
Genitourinary Disease: Urinary Retention
Madeline Moore
0.50 Hours
This session will provide an overview of urinary retention including the different types, causes and initial investigations and management.
Non-Depolarizing Muscle Relaxants: General Properties
Elizabeth Flockton and Christopher J Parker
0.50 Hours
This session reviews the structure and function of the neuromuscular junction and introduces the action of the non-depolarizing muscle relaxants.
Drugs and the Parasympathetic Nervous System
Natasha Joshi and Jeffrey Handel
0.50 Hours
This session examines the basic anatomy of the parasympathetic nervous system, as well as the synthesis, release and metabolism of neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine in this system and the drugs that act upon these processes.
Heat and Temperature
Ben Messer and Kaye Cantlay
0.50 Hours
This session examines heat, temperature and the transfer of heat, as well as the importance of these concepts to the anaesthetist.
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Philip Michael Barrow
0.50 Hours
This session examines the nature of electromagnetic radiation. It discusses the properties of electromagnetic waves and illustrates the types of radiation that make up the electromagnetic spectrum, with reference to quanta and different properties across the spectrum.
Infusion Devices
Ali Diba
0.50 Hours
This session describes a range of syringes and infusion pumps, their application in modern anaesthetic practice and the hazards associated with their use.
Improving Provider Accuracy in the EHR
Seth D. Carlson, BS, CPHIMS, MSIS
1.00 Hours
A longstanding issue at the NIH Clinical Center has been identifying the medically responsible providers who are caring for a patient within the Electronic Health Record. This information is key to multiple clinical processes and to patient safety, including the notification of the medically responsible provider of any critical....
How Chief Digital Officers Can Boost Digital Transformation
Peter Gocke, MD and Florian Benthin
1.00 Hours
The CDO role is quite new for healthcare providers, not only in Germany, but also in Europe and US. In this session, the speakers will explain the role of the CDO and not only distinguish between CIO, CDO, CNIO, CMIO, etc., but also give insights about advantages of a C-Suite Digitalization officer in a large organizations. Fur....
Getting to Yes: Exchanging Information to Better Coordinate Patient Care
Elaine Scordakis, MS and Daniel Glaze, CPHIMS, PMP
1.00 Hours
The California Office of Health Integrity (CalOHII) in cooperation with the California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF) recently produced the State Health Information Guidance (SHIG). The SHIG is an authoritative but non-binding guidance from the State of California that explains when, where and why mental health and substance use d....
Intelligent Bed-Flow and Return on Investment
Brian Collins
1.00 Hours
This session describes a homegrown healthcare information management system with a generous and well documented return on investment (ROI). This bed management system is built-off of Lawrence General Hospital's electronic health record (EHR) and Apple iPods. The new workflow facilitated by Health IT has introduced even greater....
Health Care Without Walls Learning Session
Susan Dentzer and Carla Smith, MA, CNM, FHIMSS
1.00 Hours
The speakers will examine the enablers of, and barriers to, maximizing health IT work force and human factors in achieving progress as the nation moves toward a more distributed healthcare system by 2025. The speakers will provide an update on cross- sectoral discussions held as part of NEHI’s “Healthcare Without Walls” project....
Medium Cut-Off Dialysis - A Step in the Right Direction - Webinar
Colin Hutchison
The technology and outcomes behind medium cut-off dialysers for Haemodialysis
Infection Control & Antibiotic Stewardship: CMS CoPs & Proposed Changes
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
The CDC estimates that there are 100,000 deaths and 1.7 million healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which lead to about $20 billion in additional healthcare spending every year. HHS, CMS, TJC, FDA, and CDC all have released memos, guidelines, and standards on how to combat this issue. During this program, our expert will....
Family Dynamics in Addiction
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
3.00 Hours
Family Dynamics in Addiction explores the dynamics of addiction as an imbalanced (dysfunctional) family system and the commonalities of imbalanced families including parenting styles, communication, children of alcoholics, responses to stress and birth order dynamics. This unit recognizes and defines characteristics of family ro....
Neonatal and Newborn Substance Abuse Complications
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
9.00 Hours
Neonatal and Newborn Substance Abuse Complications addresses the neonatal and newborn complications during pregnancy and post birth of children born to women who used alcohol, tobacco or other drugs during pregnancy. This unit reviews characteristics and physical effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the psychosocial and educat....
Maximize Your Money Under New CMS & TJC Regulations
Ronald B. Sterling, CPA, MBA
Would you rather receive $119 or more for $100 dollars of Medicare services or $91 for that same $100 of services? That is the bottom line implication of the replacement for the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Congress passed in 2015. The new Medicare Merit Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and your other incentives will....
Driving Enterprise ROI by Eliminating Data Silos
Soyal Momin
1.00 Hours
Presbyterian Healthcare Services (PHS) aimed to harness their data and adopt a data-driven culture that promoted outcomes-driven clinical excellence. After three years and many resources invested in an enterprise data warehouse, the organization needed an action plan and analytics tool that could turn raw data into business valu....
HIEs, CommonWell, Carequality Can Work Together: Here's How
John Kansky, MBA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS and Keith Kelley, MBA
1.00 Hours
Amidst overlapping and potentially competing national approaches, interoperability is still a point of confusion and misunderstanding for many. We now understand that there's not ONE national model, but what isn't clear is how different interoperability approaches can work together. This session will take a deeper look at severa....