Investigating Outbreaks
Joyanna Wendt, MD, MPH
0.75 Hours
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an outbreak is the occurrence of more cases of disease than normally expected in a specific group of people or a certain place over a given period of time. Clinicians investigate outbreaks to control and prevent the spread of disease and infection. Investigation....
Improving Outcomes Through Patient Safety Initiatives
Patricia Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN
1 Hours
Medication errors contribute to nearly 20 percent of all medical injuries. Infusion errors involving the administration of high-risk medications have the greatest potential to result in patient harm. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) focuses on development of quality measures to increase patient safety and pr....
CMS Hospital Infection Control Worksheet
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
CMS has finalized the worksheet for assessing compliance with the infection CoPs. The CMS Infection Control worksheet now covers more than what is discussed in the CoPs, including tracers. The Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program is in effect for 2017. As part of this effort, your antibiotic stewardship program....
CMS Hospital CoP Made Easy Part III
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Part III of the series will cover nursing services, pharmaceutical services, medication, antibiotic stewardship, and much more!
Infection Control Standards & Antibiotic Stewardship Program
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
The CDC estimates 1.7 million healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) incur nearly $20 billion in healthcare costs every year. HHS, CMS, TJC, FDA, and CDC all have released memos, guidelines, standards and updates on combating this issue. This program will cover the CMS infection control standards and antibiotic stewardship p....
Electronic Health Records: Improving Patient Safety
Ronald B. Sterling, CPA, MBA
ECRI Institute listed information management in electronic health record (EHR) as the number one patient safety concern for healthcare organizations. Is your EHR properly maintained on a daily basis? The lack of a daily clinical process can undermine patient service, quality, and efficiency, and it can expose healthcare organiza....
New CMS Radiology & Nuclear Medicine Hospital CoPs
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Patient exposure to radiation has doubled over the past 20 years, and the amount of ionizing radiation from a CT scan is significantly greater than it once was. The FDA launched an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure using two principles of radiation protection – justification and dose optimization. Our expert wi....
Health Effects of Cannabis in Healthcare
Thomas Kosten, MD
This is a pivotal time in the world of cannabis policy and research for healthcare. Shifting public sentiment, conflicting and impeded scientific research, and legislative battles have fueled the debate about what, if any, harms or benefits can be attributed to the use of cannabis or its derivatives. This program will cover epid....
CMS Utilization Review Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Utilization review (UR) allows hospitals to monitor and protect themselves and their patients against unnecessary readmissions. It is important to be compliant with the UR standards to avoid penalties from the Recovery Audit Contractors and the Office of the Inspector General. During this program, attendees will learn about CoPs....
ED Patient Safety Updates — What's in Your Checklist?
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
The emergency department is a high-risk area that faces a lot of patient safety challenges, including crowding and boarding, standing orders, restraint and seclusion, grievances and complaints, MRI safety, medication errors, alarm fatigue, and much more. During this program, our medico-legal expert will discuss these challeng....
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....
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....
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....
Driving Enterprise ROI by Eliminating Data Silos
Soyal Momin
1 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 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 Data Analytics Reduces Nurse Leakage, Improves Care
Michael J. Gillen, MHA, FACHE and Stacey Blankenship, RN, MSN, CENP
1 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....
IoT and Wayfinding: Optimizing Healthcare
Cletis Earle and David Frumkin
1 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....
Embracing Longitudinal Person-Centered Care Plans
Terry O'Malley, MD and Evelyn Gallego, MBA, MPH, CPHIMS
1 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
0.5 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....
Getting to Yes: Exchanging Information to Better Coordinate Patient Care
Elaine Scordakis, MS and Daniel Glaze, CPHIMS, PMP
1 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....
Improving Provider Accuracy in the EHR
Seth D. Carlson, BS, CPHIMS, MSIS
1 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....
Health Care Without Walls Learning Session
Susan Dentzer and Carla Smith, MA, CNM, FHIMSS
1 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....
Intelligent Bed-Flow and Return on Investment
Brian Collins
1 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....
How Chief Digital Officers Can Boost Digital Transformation
Peter Gocke, MD and Florian Benthin
1 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....