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....
Integrating Evidence-Based Decision Tools Within an EHR
Steve Wiesner, MD and Kurt Hegmann, MD, MPH
1 Hours
The healthcare industry recognizes the critical role that evidence-based medicine (EBM) plays in improving health outcomes and lowering costs. The use of clinical decision support (CDS) tools incorporating EBM at the point of care provides physicians with easy access to translational research and current recommendations. Kaiser....
Navigating the Gray Areas: Outpatient/Inpatient Hybrids
Andrea M. Hall, MHA, RN and Christina Hiatt
0.75 Hours
As Health Systems expand their care delivery style, more hybrid clinics are forming. How do Informatics teams determine which inpatient vs. outpatient EHR these clinics document in, and how do they decide what needs to be documented? Come learn our process for customizing existing systems to meet the needs of a procedural pain c....
Five Ways Real-Time Notifications Can Improve Population Health
Kevin L. Dewald and Stacie Davis, RN, BSN
1 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....
Improving Febrile Infant Care Using Mobile Technology
Russell McCulloh, MD and Sarah Fouquet, PhD
0.75 Hours
Implementing evidence-based clinical practices requires a multi-faceted approach. Electronic clinical decision support (ECDS) tools may enhance adoption of evidence-based practices. We developed a freely-available smartphone-based ECDS tool for use as part of an American-Academy of Pediatrics-sponsored national practice standa....
Improving Outcomes in Heart Failure Care - Module B: Assessment and Classification
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 F: Healthcare System Evolution, Ethics & Culture
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....
Harm Risk Behaviors & Suicide Prevention - Module E: 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....