Pharmacological Cancer Pain Management
Jayne Wood
0.50 Hours
This session describes the principles of the pharmacological management of cancer pain including a review of strong opioids and adjuvant analgesics.
Pattern Recognition
Kerry Crawley
0.50 Hours
The aim of this session is to provide a brief overview of pattern recognition as a model of clinical decision making and how this may be applied to practice.
Acute Pain in Children
Glyn Williams and Anoo Jain
0.50 Hours
This session describes the principles of delivering effective analgesic management to children in acute pain associated with ongoing illness, surgery, trauma or painful procedures in a clinical setting.
Recognising Patients Nearing End of Life
Claire Norman
0.50 Hours
This session aims to develop a comprehensive approach to recognising that patients are nearing end of life. This will include a number of case studies at the end of the session.
Research and the EHR: Process Improvement Through Integration
Arash Naeim, MD, PhD and Marti Arvin, JD
1.00 Hours
The session will discuss the process for developing and implementing a system to improve the workflow and efficiency of the clinical trial submission and management process. The session will discuss the considerations around privacy and security for integrating the Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission system with the clin....
Building a Population Health Strategy That Physicians Love
Ann Marie Edwards and Cliff Frank
1.00 Hours
As the growth and popularity of value-base contracts increases, ACOs, CINs and health systems struggle to engage physicians in key practice initiatives that promise to optimize the health of the patient population while decreasing costs. Providers are reluctant to change care delivery practices, believing the source of network c....
Digital Command Center for EHR Implementation
Matthew Ernst and Neil D. Gomes
1.00 Hours
There is tremendous irony in many areas of IS&T. One of them is that so much of the go-live operations management process is often done on paper. One such example of this is how go-live command centers are managed. These command centers are often manned by staff who are constantly updating whiteboards, transcribing issues into e....
Designing From the Inside Out: Taking a Strategic Approach
Iris Berman, RN, MSN, CCRN-k
1.00 Hours
Northwell Health is anticipating the future of care, and it believes telehealth will be a critical component. The organization has a culture of “measuring twice, and cutting once.” So, when leadership decided to implement a telehealth program, it took the time to set a strategy and plan for success. This session will provide det....
Benchmarking and Iterative Usability Testing: A Case Study
Robert L. Gluck and William Plew
1.00 Hours
This topic is based on the work that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Human Factors Engineering (HFE) team did for VHA’s Office of Connected Care over a 14-month period to assist with the design of the new My HealtheVet (MHV) Patient Portal. This speakers will cover the benefits of combining benchmarking studies with ite....
Pharmacogenomics Within the EHR
Jon W. McKeeby, DSC and Jharana J. Patel, PharmD, MBA
1.00 Hours
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (NIH CC) is the largest research hospital in the United States. Patient safety and clinical quality is a major goal of the hospital. To this end, we implemented a pharmacogenomics program within the NIH CC Electronic Health Record. The program currently consists of genotyping fo....
Personalizing the Patient Experience Through Intelligence
David Bradshaw and Ryan Hamilton
1.00 Hours
Seventy-five percent of healthcare costs are related to preventable conditions, per the CDC, yet only 4% of healthcare spend is on healthy behaviors. By transitioning from reactive care to proactive health management and patient engagement, providers can adapt to market shifts that emphasize value-based care. But how do healthca....
Cybersecurity Risk Management at a National Post-Acute Care
Richard L Paul JR, MBA, BS and Jeffrey Bell, BS, CISSP, CPHIMS, GSLC, ACHE
1.00 Hours
In 2016, the Ponemon Institute revealed that nearly 90% of healthcare organizations had suffered a data breach in the previous 2 years. Often overlooked in the healthcare cybersecurity discussion, post-acute care providers face the same threats and regulations as acute care organizations. Covenant Care, a national post-acute car....
An Evaluation of the Nursing Care of Renal Transplant Recipients: A Qualitative Study
Renal Society of Australasia
Evaluation of a qualitative study on an evaluation of the nursing care of renal transplant recipients
Acute kidney injury secondary to Eastern Brown snake ( Pseudonaja textilis) bite: a case study - Journal Club May 2019
Renal Society of Australasia
Acute kidney injury secondary to Eastern Brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) Bite: A Case Study - A case of microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia following Eastern Brown snake envenomation, which resulted in acute kidney injury.
Preventing Ligature Risks: CMS and TJC Guidelines and Requirements
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Last December, CMS issued a 13-page memo for hospitals to prevent ligature risk and self-harm from patients who are suicidal. Tag 144 and Tag 701 were amended to reflect these changes, specifically on patient assessments, environmental assessments, unit updates, and education requirements. This program will review CMS and The Jo....
Regulations, Interpretive Guidelines, Pharmacy, Dietary & Nutrition Services
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
CMS frequently updates the CAH Conditions of Participations (CoPs) in order to keep up with the changing healthcare infrastructure and deliver quality service. This 4-part series will deliver the current state and the 2018 proposed changes in the CAH CoPs. The series will detail every section in the CAH CoPs manual and highlight....
Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: Journey to HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7
Damian Jankowicz, PhD and Tania Tajirian, MD, CCFP, FCFP, DTMPH
0.75 Hours
To advance clinical care and brain science, the Centre for Addiction and Mental health has transformed itself into a data-driven organization through implementation of its clinical information system (CIS) as well as an enterprise data strategy. Strategic and tactical elements required for the transformation will be discussed al....
Adolescent Privacy: Solve This Problem or I'll Text You
Susan J. Kressly, MD
1.00 Hours
Adolescent privacy has been a problem with EHR functionality since pediatricians and family doctors began to adopt technology (and many were early adopters!) Patients and users have been begging for a solution and adolescent patients and their providers are creating work-arounds to store data, communicate and share information.....
Restrictive Practices
Deb Shearman
0.50 Hours
Overview; Restraint free environment; Legal, ethical and human rights issues; Clinical issues and decision making; Worker responsibilities; Physical and mental health injuries; Alternative strategies to protect people
Relapse Prevention Therapy
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
3.00 Hours
Relapse Prevention Therapy utilizes a cognitive-behavioral analysis of addictive behaviors and begins with the assessment of a client’s potential interpersonal, intrapersonal, environmental and physiological risks for relapse and the unique set of factors and situations that may directly precipitate a lapse. Once potential relap....
Crises Intervention
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
3.00 Hours
Crises Intervention reviews effective principles and guidelines in crises intervention. Detailed procedural steps inform the substance abuse counselor how to act immediately, make appropriate assessments of crises, conduct successful interventions and make referrals. Different models of crisis intervention that assess the sev....
Persons with Child Abuse and Neglect Issues in Substance Abuse Treatment
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
9.00 Hours
Persons with Child Abuse and Neglect Issues in Treatment examines treatment issues for both adult survivors of child abuse or neglect and adults in treatment who may be abusing or neglecting their own children. Unit includes: • overview of adult survivors of child abuse and neglect • defines child abuse and neglect, provid....
Pod Cast - Dual Kidney Transplantation
Pera Pattabhiraman
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major health burden in Australia. Transplantation is a treatment option for CKD patients that approach end stage disease. To improve transplantation rates in Australia, increasingly marginal donors are offered and appropriate allocation of these organs remains challenging. Dual Kidney Transplant....
Radiology Review – Lower Extremity X-ray 3
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
1.00 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on radiographic exam of common injuries to the Lisfranc joint, metatarsal bones, Great Toe and Lesser toes.
Radiology Review – Upper Extremity X-ray 4
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.25 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on radiographic exam of the Thumb CMC joint arthritis and Phalangeal fractures