LIVE AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by Hospitalist Management Advisor
presented on September 13, 2006
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) prevention has become a prime focus for hospital medicine programs. In fact, the CMS and IHI implemented standards for hospitals in CAP treatment as an initiative of the 100,000 Lives Campaign. These initiatives, coupled with the increasing use of evidence-based guidelines for treating patients, makes it important for hospitalists and other inpatient practitioners to address CAP treatment.
Listen to the program Creating Sustainable Improvements in Managing Community-Acquired Pneumonia. During this 90-minute audioconference, our experts will provide advice, tips, and examples for handling CAP treatment.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the audioconference, participants will be able to:
- Recognize evidence-based resources that can support CAP quality improvement initiatives.
- Describe the current advances in technology that foster collaboration and can improve organizational efficiency in deploying CAP quality improvement initiatives.
- Identify the experiences of other organizations in creating and deploying effective CAP quality improvement initiatives.
- Illustrate the leadership role of physicians in developing sustainable improvements in CAP.
AGENDA
- Drivers of using evidence-based guidelines for CAP
- Premier study results, ramifications
- Scope of problem on a national level
- Adherence to guidelines lowers mortality rates and costs
- Pay for performance
- Unique role of hospitalists in leading CAP initiatives
- Brief overview of regulatory requirements
- JCAHO guidelines
- CMS guidelines (voluntary 2% for meeting guidelines)
- Practical application of guidelines—from academic medical centers to small community hospitals
- Content
- Systems: Growing use of technology to foster collaboration
- How to select the right technology (budget, environment)
- Point-of-care tools (PDAs)
- Structure
- People
- In-house vs. external company to implement or re-engineer a system of core measures
- Measuring compliance and fostering positive ways to get MD buy-in
- Financial impact
- Impact: tying savings back to specific measures
- Determining an acceptable compliance rate from practitioners
- Payers (insurance companies and businesses drive patients to quality-insured hospitals)
- Q&A
SPEAKERS
Timothy McNamara, MD, MPH, is currently the Chief Medical Officer of HealthGate DataCorp, a publisher and provider of evidence-based content and software tools. He also currently serves as the medical director for the Center for Healthcare Informatics at the University of Kansas and teaches medical informatics in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, FACP, is founder and Executive Director of the Hospitalist Program at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. He also serves as Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs & Quality in the Department of Medicine.
Donald Krause, MD, is the Medical Director for Quality Assurance at St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, Maine. He also serves as Chairman of the Care Management Committee for the Maine Health Alliance.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
- directors of hospitalist programs
- chiefs of internal medicine or pediatrics
- VPMAs/Medical staff leaders
- CFOs
- CMOs
- CMIOs
- directors of case management
- directors of emergency medicine
- directors of physician services
- finance
- medical directors
- physician hospitalists
- administrators
- quality officers
- ED personnel
- pharmacists
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