New CMS Guidelines for Dietary Services
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
CMS recently made 3 changes to the hospital dietary guidelines and rewrote the dietary guidelines for critical access hospitals. This program will discuss the CoPs for dietary, food and nutrition services, including the new dietary guidelines for critical access hospitals. CMS published a new rule that allows medical staff and b....
New CMS Emergency Management Standards: Understanding The Final Rule
Brad Keyes, CHSP
In September of 2016, CMS issued their final rule on new Conditions of Participation standards (CoPs) for Emergency Management. CMS has set November 16 2017, as the effective date for all healthcare facilities to be fully compliant with these new standards. In this presentation, our expert will discuss the new standards, iden....
CMS to Hospitals: How to Overcome the QAPI Worksheet and Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Quality Assurance (QA) and Performance Improvement (PI) is one of three CoP sections with a correlating CMS worksheet. State and federal surveyors use the worksheet on all survey activities in hospitals when assessing compliance with the QAPI standards, including validation and certification surveys. This program will cover t....
More Than a Signature: Navigating the Complexities of Informed Consent
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Researchers from Johns Hopkins 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. Informed consent is a process and not just a signed form. This program will provide the current CMS CoPs for hospitals and....
Mastering the CMS Hospital Infection Control Worksheet
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
It is imperative for hospitals to understand 49 pages of the infection control worksheet because the worksheet is used for all validation and certification surveys, and covers more material than what the infection control standards provide. The program will cover the Hospital Infection Control Worksheet, proposed infection co....
How an HIE and a Health Plan Innovated to Improve Medical Reconciliation
Andrea Gelzer, MD and Martin Lupinetti
1 Hours
Newly evolving HIE services are creating opportunities for health plans and providers to improve transitions in care, particularly for underserved populations. A next-generation HIE offering CCDs post-discharge from hospitals in a large metropolitan area collaborated with the leading Medicaid managed care plan to improve timely....
How AI and Machine Learning are Disrupting the Current Healthcare Ecosystem
Christopher Ross, MBA and James Golden, PhD
1 Hours
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have the potential to disrupt much of the current healthcare ecosystem. These technologies are poised to redesign how providers realize much of healthcare in the next few years. In order to compete effectively in the future, providers as well as payers will need to start pl....
How Data and Analytics Can Improve CV Quality and Outcomes
Craig E. Strauss, MD, MPH and Pam Rush
1 Hours
A big part of meeting the value-based purchasing environment in which healthcare systems find themselves is to empower providers so they can optimize the management of post-operative patient issues, reduce length of stay (LOS), and mitigate risk – all toward lowering costs. Allina Health, the largest integrated delivery system i....
Interoperability Sets the Foundation for Care Coordination
Peter M. Schoch, MD and Erica Neher
1.25 Hours
The term “interoperability” is used frequently in healthcare today, yet its meaning is often misunderstood. In order to be effective, providers must do more than share information; they must do it in a way that is easily consumed by the recipient. In a value-based care world, the technology must also be affordable enough and eas....
Clinical Process Improvement for Scalable Quality Governance
Peter Chang, MD
0.75 Hours
Tampa General Hospital (TGH), a 1,011-bed teaching hospital in Florida, initiated a clinical process improvement (CPI) program aimed at enhancing standardization and efficacy of treatment for conditions it identified as being high priority. The goal was to develop scalable and repeatable models to tackle difficult to solve clini....
Embedding IT Experts to Solve Complex Care Challenges
Bryan Bliven
1 Hours
University of Missouri Health Care uses the Performance Improvement Leadership Development Program (PI-LDP), an action-based learning program for interdisciplinary and inter-professional teams to work on select problems identified by MU Health Care leaders. Beginning in 2016, every PI-LDP initiative has an embedded IT associate....
Machine Learning and Big Data to Drive Patient Engagement and Better Health Outcomes
Doug Melton, PhD, MPH and Christer A. Johnson
1 Hours
For many years, companies in the retail, telecom, insurance, and banking industries have used machine learning techniques to analyze terabytes of real-time data representing a wide range of customer interactions (across all channels), demographic characteristics, and lifestyle events. This session will explain how CIGNA has leve....
Harnessing EHR Data for Local Population Health Monitoring
Emily McCormick, MPH and Kate E. Horle, MPA
1 Hours
Public health officials are finding health disparities among neighborhoods, with childhood obesity rates and tobacco use higher in some neighborhoods. In Colorado, a unique opportunity is informing a better understanding of geography-based public health through The Colorado Health Observation Regional Data Service (CHORDS). CHOR....
Next-Gen Security Technologies for Healthcare Authentication
Abbie Barbir and Brett McDowell
1 Hours
As personal healthcare data is increasingly accessible via web and mobile apps, account takeover attempts are increasing and often successful in traditional username and password environments. Learn how Aetna is utilizing next generation authentication standards, biometrics and behavioral authentication to significantly improve....
Improving Outcomes in Heart Failure Care - Module G: Transdisciplinary Team Care
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 C: Pathophysiology and Underlying Conditions and Disorders
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 B: Assessment & Prevention
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 Obesity Management - Module B: Assessments & Complications 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
Easing the Path from Adolescence to Adulthood - Applying the Developmental Stress Reduction Method
Professor Tom Bissonette MSW, LMSW
Asynchrony is a model that reflects the reality that youth develop at different rates. They can differ in physical, social, or emotional developmental age, for example. They can even be out of sync with their own development. Teens and young adults are often resistant to the treatment that we offer because they desire a sense of....
Baylisascaris Infection
Andrew McNulty, PhD
This course will describe Baylisascaris Infection, looking into what the infection is, symptoms, prevention, and treatment. This activity will also discuss the risk factors and epidemiology in terms of infants and protection from infection. This e/learning will illustrate the biology of its cycle and how the infection is produce....
Hemodynamic Monitoring
Mr Hamza Shehade
The purpose of this course is to inform the healthcare provider about the fundamentals of hemodynamic monitoring and the devices used to evaluate these vital functions.
Endocrine System
Mr Hamza Shehade Rn, BSc, MSc, Staff Development Coordinator and Clinical Educator
This training course is made for medical and nursing students primarily, also matches working nurses at medical-surgical and other wards. It encompasses all what you need and have to know about endocrine system, from anatomy to physiology, to focused nursing assessment and special nursing considerations, to different endocrine d....
Medication Preparation and Administration
Mr Hamza Shehade
This training material is made to have you recognize the latest guidelines for safe medication preparation and administration in accordance to all applicable laws and regulations. Also, to recognize standardization in the practice of medication preparation and administration among all units of care.
Florida Laws & Rules
Industry Specialists
2 Hours
To educate the Florida Nurses in Laws and Rules for nursing practice in Florida State. This course is developed in compliance with the requirements of the Florida Board of Nursing. It is a CE Broker certified course for 2 hours of post-graduated nursing education.
Employee Training & Development
Mr Hamza Shehade Rn, BSc, MSc, Staff Development Coordinator and Clinical Educator
This training course is made for managerial level personnel, HR and staff development personnel and clinical educators. It encompasses what they have to know pertaining training and development.