CMS Hospital CoP Made Easy Part IV
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Part IV of the series will cover QAPI, utilization review, physical environment, radiology, lab, dietary, and more!
CMS Medical Records: Hospital CoPs and Proposed Changes
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
The Joint Commission has changed many of their standards to comply with the CMS CoPs. During this program, attendees will receive in-depth information about the CMS regulations and interpretive guidelines for medical records. Additionally, our expert will provide a crosswalk to those changes. Attendees will learn about many d....
Falls Prevention
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Preventing falls and fall-related injuries are important issues for all hospitals. Patient falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths for patients over 65 years of age. The goal is to reduce the number and severity of falls while increasing mobility. It is important that all healthcare facilities be up to date on the c....
National Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
During this program, attendees will learn all The National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) for hospitals and how those goals compare and contrast to CMS standard equivalents. Infection control standards and NPSGs on infection control issues are very important to hospitals and healthcare facilities, as are the goals regarding alarm....
Give Falls the Slip: TJC & CMS Hospital CoPs & Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Falls and fall-related injuries are important patient safety and risk management issues for all hospitals. Patient falls are the leading cause of injury related deaths for patients over 65 years of age and the number one hospital-acquired condition, costing hospitals $30,000 per fall-related injury. Every hospital should have a....
Interdisciplinary Rounding to Improve Case Management Outcomes
Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN and Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN
Interdisciplinary care rounds are moving to the fore as a key strategy for coordinating care, managing length of stay and improving patient and family satisfaction. According to The Joint Commission, best practice for these rounds includes the full interdisciplinary care team with rounds conducted at the patient bedside. Case ma....
Informed Consent: Meeting CMS, TJC and DNV Requirements
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Informed consent is a costly deficiency for hospitals that can be easily prevented. A recent study found that misplaced consent forms cost hospitals $580,000 each year, and 66% of patients were missing signed consent forms at surgery, delaying 10% of surgical procedures. This program will provide the current CMS CoPs for hosp....
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....
Improving Patient Flow in the ED & Beyond
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Our expert will present evidence-based recommendations to reduce boarding and overcrowding and help hospitals implement operational, cultural, and data management changes to improve patient flow. Attendees will learn about current TJC standards that address patient flow through the emergency department. This includes measures....
Nursing & Pharmaceutical Services
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
All facilities accredited by TJC, AOA, CIHQ, and DNV Healthcare must adhere to the CMS CoPs. This 525-page manual contains interpretive guidelines, policies, procedures, and standards that must be followed for all providers treating patients hospitals or any hospital-owned departments.
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....
Avoiding Legal Hazards in Documentation: CMS and TJC Requirements for Hospitals and Nurses
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
This is a must-attend program for any nurse working in healthcare today. The program will discuss legal issues in documentation, offer advice on TJC and CMS Hospital CoP issues related to documentation, and provide over 50 recommendations to help attendees improve their documentation skills. Our expert will identify issues th....
CMS Medical Records: Proposed Changes & Existing CMS CoPs
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
The Joint Commission has changed many of their standards to comply with the CMS CoPs. During this program, attendees will receive in-depth information about the CMS regulations and interpretive guidelines for medical records. Additionally, our expert will provide a crosswalk to those changes. Attendees will learn about many d....
Inappropriate Opioids, Adverse Outcomes and IT Solutions
Kurt Hegmann, MD, MPH and Roman Kownacki, MD, MPH
1 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....
Imagine a Hospital Ward Without Code Blue Alarms
Alison Fox-Robichaud, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC (Int Med, Crit Care)
1 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....
Due Diligence for Health IT Investments
Sharon R. Klein, JD and Mark Elson, PhD
1 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....
Home Hospital: Telemedicine for Acute Care Patients
David Levine, MD, MA
1 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.....
Efficacy of Multimedia in Patient-Physician Interactions
Nick Patel, MD / Lakisha McNeil, RN / Benjamin Schooley, PhD, MBA
1 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....
Integrating Population Analytics and the EHR Environment
Nina M. Taggart, MD and Sameera Ahmed
1 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....
Improving Hospital Capacity Management Through Monte-Carlo Simulation
Susie Yin and Eric S. Reich
1 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....
Managing Machine Learning: Insights and Strategy
Elizabeth Clements and Debdipto Misra
1 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....
Improving Quality of Care in Anesthesiology
Paul Pomerantz, CAE and Nilesh Chandra
1 Hours
Join us as we examine the evolution of the American Society of Anesthesiologists National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry (NACOR). The initial NACOR concept, first discussed in 2008 when it collected quality data from a handful of anesthesia groups, is now a robust QCDR that currently supports PQRS reporting for over 400 a....
Modeling Factors Associated with Healthcare Data Breaches
Alexander McLeod, PhD and Diane Dolezel, EdD, RHIA
1 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....
Identifying Frequent ED Users in HIE Impacts Case Management
Jason Shapiro, MD, MA and Tom R. Moore, MS, MPA
1 Hours
Studies have shown substantial numbers of patients overusing Emergency Departments (ED). According to an article published in Emergency Physicians Monthly, May 18, 2016, “frequent users have been found to comprise approximately five percent of all ED patients and yet these patients account for up to 25 percent of all ED visits.”....
Disrupt Advocacy: Put What You Know to Work for Patients
Jeff Coughlin
1 Hours
Advocacy is a tool used to initiate policy change at the federal or state level. A robust program can provide the health IT community with the opportunity to state its case for sustaining delivery system reform efforts and the transformation of healthcare. Developing a cohesive message to share with federal and state officials....