2011 Annual Education Program
The 2011 AMA-OMSS Annual Meeting was held June 16-18, 2011, in Chicago. Continuing medical education (CME) credit is still available for those programs marked with an asterisk (*).
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Faculty
Mark V. Williams, MD
Description
One in five elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital 30 days after leaving. That is 2.3 million rehospitalizations a year that rack up more than $17 billion in annual Medicare costs, according to an April 2, 2009, study in The New England Journal of Medicine. In today's consumer-oriented marketplace, where hospitals compete to offer better, more effective care, physicians and medical staffs must organize and work with hospital administration to achieve measurably better results. Medical staffs must strive to improve quality, reduce adverse outcomes and improve the patient experience. This program will provide steps to take to achieve these results. In particular, this program will explain how to go about reducing the readmission rate at your hospital. The program will provide insight on process improvement, organization and leadership.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss how to prevent readmissions.
- Develop strategies for reducing readmissions in a hospital.
- Examine effective transitions in hospital patient discharge.
- Identify how to enhance process improvement, organization and leadership within your hospital.
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Faculty
Gary Roth, DO, FACOS, FCCM, FCCP
Description
This program will present a successful undertaking within the state of Michigan, which has resulted in improved patient safety among hospitals. The program will describe their efforts to improve upon the delivery of care and the outcomes of patients. In specific, the Michigan Keystone Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Project, which has had success in preventing ICU complications, will be discussed. The speaker will provide information on how the work that has been accomplished in Michigan has made an international impact on patient safety.
Learning Objectives
- Describe a successful case within a hospital that improved patient safety.
- Explain the statewide initiatives based on Evidence Based Medicine used to ultimately improve the care of patients.
- Examine the Michigan Keystone Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Project and its successes through recognizing common goals and collaboration.
- Discuss the impact the Michigan Keystone Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Project has made internationally on patient safety.
- Discuss the other Safety Initiative that the Keystone Center has launched to improve the safety of the care that is delivered to patients in the Operating Room, Emergency Department and Delivery Room.
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Faculty
- Henry Allen, MPA, JD
- Elias Matsakis, JD
Description
The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted ACO principles on November 9, 2010, at its Interim Meeting in San Diego. The Association is advocating that participation by physicians be voluntary and that barriers for small practices to participate be eliminated. This program will discuss the soon to be released accountable care organization regulations and related issues (e.g. Antitrust). These regulations, will determine how ACOs qualify for CMS' shared savings program in 2012. In addition, the program will explain how ACOs are intended to help physicians and others, including hospitals, coordinate and provide effective quality care. Finally, the program will describe the new nonprofit, member-run health insurer ("CO-OP") program that provides federal loans and grants for start-up insurers that physicians and others might establish and operate, and that may collaborate with physician-driven ACOs.
Learning Objectives
- Describe what accountable care organizations (ACOs) are and the types of issues with which physicians will most likely grapple with when considering ACO participation.
- Discuss the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Regulations.
- Describe the tools necessary to participate in ACOs.
- Discuss managing the antitrust ramifications of ACO formation and physician joint contracting with payors.
- Describe many of the specific issues that physicians must consider when deciding whether or not to create an ACO with hospital partners.
- Identify some of the key issues that should be considered by physicians deciding whether or not to partner with hospitals or health insurers to create an ACO.
- Discuss what CO-OPs are; the new opportunities for CO-OPs that now exist in a post-health reform world, and what those new opportunities may mean for physicians.
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