Five Ways Real-Time Notifications Can Improve Population Health
Kevin L. Dewald and Stacie Davis, RN, BSN
1.00 Hours
With population health and value-based care top priorities for many healthcare organizations, it’s hard to believe some providers do not have access or ways to properly use information to support care decisions and care coordination for their populations. One of the biggest gaps is in event notifications or admits, discharges an....
Due Diligence for Health IT Investments
Sharon R. Klein, JD and Mark Elson, PhD
1.00 Hours
As health information technology (HIT) continues to grow and change the face of healthcare, investors are taking note. Private equity and venture capital firms are increasingly investing in up-and-coming HIT and mobile medical app companies, and larger companies are looking to innovate through acquisitions of HIT businesses. But....
Imagine a Hospital Ward Without Code Blue Alarms
Alison Fox-Robichaud, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC (Int Med, Crit Care)
1.00 Hours
Can you imagine a hospital ward with no code blue alarms? This speaker has been leading the team at Hamilton Health Sciences to achieve an audacious goal: to improve hospital safety by eradicating in-hospital cardiac and respiratory arrests. Through clinical research in support of Early Warning Scores, it was found that in-hosp....
Home Hospital: Telemedicine for Acute Care Patients
David Levine, MD, MA
1.00 Hours
This session will provide an in-depth discussion on the concept of “home hospital" and a pilot study that was conducted looking at admitting emergency patients to a home-based acute care program rather than an inpatient setting. This session will share some of the benefits discovered for both patients and the healthcare system.....
Inappropriate Opioids, Adverse Outcomes and IT Solutions
Kurt Hegmann, MD, MPH and Roman Kownacki, MD, MPH
1.00 Hours
Little information exists on the appropriateness of opioid prescriptions and how opioid prescribing practices influence health outcomes and medical costs. Using a nationwide database, we linked pharmaceutical and inpatient/outpatient records for individuals with a medical disability due to carpal tunnel release surgery. We found....
Improving Hospital Capacity Management Through Monte-Carlo Simulation
Susie Yin and Eric S. Reich
1.00 Hours
Capacity management is an issue for many hospitals around the world. Geisinger Health System has generated interventions to tackle the capacity management issue and to increase access, improve quality of care, and cut ED wait times, among other crucial metrics. To study the potential impact of these interventions on capacity pri....
Integrating Population Analytics and the EHR Environment
Nina M. Taggart, MD and Sameera Ahmed
1.00 Hours
Lehigh Valley Health Networks (LVHN) leaders are using the analytics expertise gained over three decades to implement value-based care on a grand scale. By applying analytics, EHR integration, and physician incentives in a coordinated and collaborative strategy, LVHN has helped managed 157,000 lives under care management. The pr....
Efficacy of Multimedia in Patient-Physician Interactions
Nick Patel, MD / Lakisha McNeil, RN / Benjamin Schooley, PhD, MBA
1.00 Hours
Traditionally, patient education has taken one of two forms: written brochures or orally communicated instructions. There is substantial literature that indicates neither approach is effective, due to the lack of information retention. This lack of retention is usually due to disengagement and disinterest in information prese....
Managing Machine Learning: Insights and Strategy
Elizabeth Clements and Debdipto Misra
1.00 Hours
Machine learning has the potential to transform healthcare through new knowledge discovery and improved productivity, but many health systems do not have a business plan in place to support advanced analytics beyond research and development. As health systems consider how best to leverage machine learning and AI, it will require....
Modeling Factors Associated with Healthcare Data Breaches
Alexander McLeod, PhD and Diane Dolezel, EdD, RHIA
1.00 Hours
This session provides an overview of the modeling process used to analyze factors associated with healthcare organization data breaches. Examining an organization's level of exposure, level of security and organizational factors provides insight into potential weaknesses. Associating data from multiple sources, preparing big dat....
Individual Therapy in Substance Abuse Treatment
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
6.00 Hours
Individual Therapy in Substance Abuse Treatment guides the prospective counselor through techniques of helping a client abstain from substance use through separating negative influences and identifying social networks, self-defeating behaviors, management of feelings and emotions, identifying mistaken core beliefs that sustain a....
Clinical Supervision and Professional Development of the Substance Abuse Counselor
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
9.00 Hours
Clinical Supervision and Professional Development of the Substance Abuse Counselor identifies: • Central principles of clinical supervision and guidelines for new supervisors, including the functions of a clinical supervisor. • The developmental levels of counselors and clinical supervisors. • Information on cultur....
Foot Soft-tissue 2
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.50 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on specific x-ray review of the foot bony anatomy. We cover evaluation and treatment options for those commonly associated with Hallux valgus, Hallux rigidus, lesser toe deformities and Morton’s neuroma.
Forearm Fractures
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.75 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on specific x-ray findings associated with fractures to the radius and ulna. We discuss clinical presentation and treatment options associated with Monteggia, Galeazzi, Essex-Lopresti fractures, radius and ulna shaft fractures (both bone forearm fractures) and distal radius fractures.
Hip Injuries 1
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.50 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on descriptions for the radiographic aspects of hip and proximal femur fracture, evaluation and treatment options commonly associated with intracapsular hip fractures, subtrochanteric fractures and femoral head fractures.
Humerus Fractures
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.50 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on descriptions for the radiographic aspects of proximal Humerus and humeral shaft fractures, evaluation and treatment options associated with 2-part, 3-part and 4-part proximal Humerus fractures and humeral shaft fractures.
Low Leg Soft tissue Injuries
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.75 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on anatomy review of the low leg, evaluation and treatment of shin splints, low leg stress fractures, Achilles tendon injuries, acute compartment syndrome, tarsal tunnel and posterior tibial tendon dysfunction.
FPIES: What We Know, What We Don’t Know and What We Still Need to Know
Jean-Christoph Caubet (MD), Marion E. Groetch (MS RDN), and Anna H. Nowak-Wegrzyn (MD FAAAAI)
1.25 Hours
This session will provide practical tips on the weaning infants with FPIES and discuss the questions that we have not answered yet in terms of possible mechanisms involved, foods involved and the natural history of FPIES. This workshop explores what we know, do not know and still need to know about food protein induced enterc....
How Bronchial Smooth Muscle Cells Make Airways Hyper-Responsive
Dr. Kirk M. Druey (MD), Dr. Michael Grunstein (MD, PhD), and Dr. Stephen Liggett (MD)
1.25 Hours
This course provides an in-depth explanation on how Bronchial Smooth Muscle Cells make airways Hyper-Responsive.
Immunologic Insights into Environmental Triggers of Asthma
Dr. Chris Carlsten (MD MPH), Dr. James E. Gern (MD FAAAAI), and Dr. Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey (MD Ph
1.25 Hours
This session reviews new insights into mechanisms of asthma exacerbations caused by three common environmental exposures.
ED CMS CoPs
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
The emergency department (ED) is a high-risk environment for liability. In order to prevent problems from arising, administrators must make sure their facilities adhere to CoPs that affect their ED. This program will cover CoPs on ED and Interpretive Guidelines located in two separate sections of the Hospital CoP. Our expert....
MRI Safety: Maneuvering the Maze of ACR, CMS &TJC Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
MRI is an evolving technology that requires frequent compliance updates to reduce potential risks in the MR environment. This program will cover the CMS hospital CoPs and TJC standards on MRI. It will focus on the American College of Radiology’s MRI guidelines, the National Quality Forum reporting, and TJC’s Sentinel Event Alert....
CMS Medical Records: Hospital CoPs and Proposed Changes
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
The CMS regulations and interpretive guidelines for medical records have undergone many changes in the past few years. Our expert will provide a crosswalk to those changes and highlight hot topics in the section, including verbal orders, history and physicals, standing orders, and discharge planning standards. This program will....
Holistic Counseling Seminar 1: Introduction to Holistic Counseling
Jim Morningstar PhD.
1.25 Hours
The theory and practice of holistic counseling is presented and distinguished from general counseling practices. Topics for the training course are outlined. Holism as a worldview evolving from systems thinking is detailed along with three basic tenants. Exercises to examine one’s own holistic principles and to clarify one’s pur....
Elderly Nutrition for CNAs (SCORM)
Ms Olympia Resol:RN, MPH, CRNI, CARN
4.00 Hours
Are you working with elderly patients? How is their nutritional status? Are they eating adequately? This content provides a comprehensive course on the nutritional needs of elderly. Topics include the science of food nutrients, nutritional status assessment, risks and prevention of malnutrition.