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....
Improving Outcomes in Obesity Management - Module A: Prevalence & Pathophysiology of Obesity
Ann K. Cashion, PhD, RN, FAAN
1 Hours
This course offers current standards of care for the patient with obesity and is presented in four modules: Module A: Prevalence and Pathophysiology Module B: Assessment Module C: Interventions Module D: Care Planning
Improving Outcomes in Obesity Management - Module D: Case Manager's Role in Obesity Care
Ann K. Cashion, PhD, RN, FAAN
1.5 Hours
This course offers current standards of care for the patient with obesity and is presented in four modules: Module A: Prevalence and Pathophysiology Module B: Assessment Module C: Interventions
Improving Outcomes in Pain Management - Module A: Pain Management: Pathophysiology of Pain
Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS
1 Hours
Our five Modules offer the current standards of care for the patient with pain. Our Course is organized as follows: -Pathophysiology of Pain -Acute Pain -Chronic Pain Overview -Types of Chronic & Persistent Pain -Cancer Pain Management
Improving Outcomes in Pain Management - Module B: Pain Management: Acute Pain
Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS
1.5 Hours
Our five Modules offer the current standards of care for the patient with pain. Our Course is organized as follows: -Pathophysiology of Pain -Acute Pain -Chronic Pain Overview -Types of Chronic & Persistent Pain -Cancer Pain Management
Improving Outcomes in Heart Failure Care - Module D: Nonpharmacologic Treatments and Interventions
Suzanne J. Wingate, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAHA
2 Hours
The purpose of Improving Outcomes in Heart Failure Care is to educate case managers so that they may be aware of and empowered to intervene and support efforts to understand and expedite effective resource and clinical management based upon the: -Latest evidence-based guidelines and standards of care for HF patients -Hospita....
Harm Risk Behaviors & Suicide Prevention - Module D: Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment and Management
Betsy B. Waterman, PhD, CAS, MS, BS and Ellen Fink-Samnick, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CCM, CRP
1.5 Hours
The purpose of Improving Outcomes in Harm Risk Behaviors & Suicide Prevention is to educate case managers about suicide so that they may be aware of early warning signs and empowered to intervene and support the efforts of other interprofessional practice team members, including other health care professionals, patients and fami....
Improving Outcomes in Sepsis Care and Resource Management - Module B: Pathophysiology & Assessment
Debra Siela, PhD, RN, CCNS, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CNE, RRT
1.25 Hours
This course will focus on sepsis care and resource management. The five course modules describe the prevalence and pathophysiology, assessment, sources and predisposing conditions, prevention and treatment and the case manager’s role in Sepsis planning and treatment goals.
Educate Simplify HIPAA Training
Olympia Resol:RN, MPH, CRNI, CARN
2 Hours
HIPAA Training: Protecting the Privacy of your Patients HIPPA: stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Passed by Congress in 1996; implemented April 14, 2003
CNA BUNDLE (24 CEUs)
Ms Olympia Resol:RN, MPH, CRNI, CARN
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO OBTAIN 24 CNA CEUs 1.) Complete the 6 CNA Online courses below a. Elderly Nutrition (4ceus) b. Communication Concepts (4ceus) c. Diabetes and Hypoglycemia (4 ceus) d. Physiology and Measuring Vital Signs (4 ceus) e. Pressure Ulcer Care (4ceus) f. Dealing with stress and End of Life Care (4 ceus)....