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....
How to Create a World-Class Financial Service Center
Sharlene Seidman, MBA
0.75 Hours
The shift to consumerism has caused patients to become more engaged in their own care, and because they are now also purchasers, they view the financial interaction as a critical element of their experience. One negative financial encounter could overshadow an otherwise positive patient experience and adversely affect the percei....
How Data Analytics Reduces Nurse Leakage, Improves Care
Michael J. Gillen, MHA, FACHE and Stacey Blankenship, RN, MSN, CENP
1.00 Hours
As hospitals continue to face shrinking margins, they must find ways to either increase revenue or decrease losses. Since labor is the largest single cost in almost any hospital’s budget, reducing needless expenses in this area can help shore up the bottom line without affecting the quality of care – or hurting staff morale. Thi....
Embracing Longitudinal Person-Centered Care Plans
Terry O'Malley, MD and Evelyn Gallego, MBA, MPH, CPHIMS
1.00 Hours
As the delivery of care and services for individuals becomes increasingly mobile and shifts from institutional to community-based care settings, new payment models and data infrastructures are needed to facilitate coordination, collaboration and continuity of care across all stakeholder groups. This session will introduce the co....
Fall Prevention and Fire Departments
Andrew J. Muth, MD
0.50 Hours
The Phoenix VA had already partnered with local fire departments to identify chronically ill Veterans needing interim care. Using the existing infrastructure, this project applies additional intelligence to target patients at risk for fall and mitigate this risk through telehealth intervention. The revamped dashboard utilizes an....
From Big Data to Big Knowledge: Optimizing Medication Management
David Webster, RPh, MSBA and Maria Schutt, EdD
0.75 Hours
Managing medication inventory across complex hospital operations requires medications to be available when and where needed. Pressures on medication budgets demand new strategies to ensure medication availability at the lowest cost. Learn how one health system leveraged national benchmarking to identify opportunities for workflo....
IoT and Wayfinding: Optimizing Healthcare
Cletis Earle and David Frumkin
1.00 Hours
In the quest to improve patient experience, deliver better outcomes, and lower costs, providers are getting creative with connectivity. Increasingly, this means turning to Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to produce, capture and share data needed to make smarter clinical and business decisions. IoT remains daunting for many....
Holistic Counseling Seminar 4: Theories and Techniques of Holistic Counseling
Jim Morningstar PhD
1.50 Hours
A history and overview of the development of holistic counseling is presented. Individual theories and the practices associated with them are presented. These include the Family Systems Theory of Murray Bowen, MD, Gestalt Therapy of Fritz Perls, MD, Bioenegetics of Alexander Lowen, MD, Primal Therapy of Arthur Janov, PhD, and Th....