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A Healthcare Informatics Colloquium:
Using Technology to Improve the Health of Healthcare
A Three-Part Audio Seminar Series
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- MAY 10, 2006: Doctors who have purchased and implemented an EHR have stepped up their desire to learn advanced techniques on maximizing the EHR's software capabilities. Where are the revenue enhancers? Should I get involved in clinical trials? Will the EHR improve or damage my relationships with patients? How can I get involved in a disease management or medical management program?
In a three-part audio seminar series, industry leaders will explain how they have pushed technology to improve patient care, contain costs, enhance revenue, and thrive on improved practice efficiencies. If you've been studying EHR capabilities, or if you've completed the transition from paper to technology and you're ready for advanced training, you're going to love this series. Or, use these seminars to build justification for an EHR. Register for one, two or save when you register for all three.
- Session 1: Using EHRs to Enhance Revenue through Contract Research and Clinical Trials
- Session 2: Trends in Disease Management: Optimizing EHRs to Deliver Quality in Chronic Patient Populations
- Session 3: Using EHRs and PHRs to Boost Employee Health through Medical Management
Each 90-minute audio seminar includes a detailed approach at a specific topic. Register below for one, two, or save $100 when you register for all three.
SESSION 1:
Using EHRs to Enhance Revenue through Contract Research and Clinical Trials
May 11, 2006 1:00 - 2:30 EST
Where: Your Office
In the last year, the number of clinical trials being offered more than doubled from 11,000 in 2004 to 23,500 in 2005, according to ClinicalTrials.gov, a registry that tracks ongoing trials. Unless you are directly involved in a trial, most physicians are so engaged in day-to-day patient care, they often are unaware of clinical studies that might be beneficial to their patients. If they did, they rarely have time to research whether their patient can get enrolled. But an added value built into many EHRs will do the work for you in about 30 seconds.
In this 90-minute audio seminar, nationally-recognized clinicians will discuss:
- What are the pros and cons of getting involved in clinical trials?
- Is there a significant ramp up time to learn how to manage clinical trial patients?
- How are EHRs beneficial to managing and recruiting patients for trials?
- How does an EHR help in identifying eligible patients?
- What considerations should you make before becoming a principal investigator?
- How can you use your role as a principle investigator to recruit patients for your practice?
- What are your costs against estimated revenues?
- What are software informatics requirements to participate in clinical trials?
FACULTY
Stephen Fadem, MD is a practicing Houston nephrologists and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He began practice in 1978 after completing a renal fellowship at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, and did his internal medicine residency at The University of Texas and MD Anderson Hospital in Houston. He is also a diplomat of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, and a member of the American Society of Nephrology, International Society of Nephrology, Renal Physicians Association, the American Association of Kidney Patients and The National Kidney Foundation. Dr. Fadem has been nationally recognized by receiving the American Association of Kidney Patient's Nova Award, the National Kidney Foundation's Distinguished Service Award. He has also received the National Kidney Foundation's Presidents Award and the Myron L. Jenkins Award. He has been awarded the Peter Lundin Award for his contributions to patient education.
Tom Sturgis, President, COO Integrated Clinical Trial Services (ICTS) has a ten year history of working exclusively in pharmaceutical marketing and patient recruitment in clinical trials. Prior to joining ICTS, he was executive vice president & COO of two of the largest and most successful service providers in this industry, where he oversaw all operational activities. Sturgis has helped orchestrate over 100 patient recruitment programs in more than 15 therapeutic areas involving well over two million potential study patients. Successful enrollment in these studies has helped shave years off development timelines for clients.
Sturgis assisted in the negotiation and sale of Butler Clinical Recruitment to Quintiles and Pharmaceutical Research Plus to HealthSTAR Communications and remained on-board through the initial transition period.
Cost $199.00
SESSION 2:
Trends in Disease Management: Optimizing EHRs to Deliver Quality in Chronic Patient Populations
May 18, 2006 1:00 - 2:30 EST
Where: Your Office
Health information increasingly is at the clinician's fingertips through technology, tipping the scales in favor of doctor-patient improved communication and quality care. In this 90-minute audio seminar, learn how claims and clinical information through EHR and Web portals can improve and integrate patient care. Also, learn how advanced medical management interventions, predictive modeling results, and reporting tools are now supporting the patient by reducing mortality, decreasing healthcare costs for employers, and improving patient outcomes. But there are risks if the balance of clinical influence tips from physicians to disparate third parties seeking to control costs in chronic patient populations. What are the “pros” and “cons” of these latest trends? How will this affect patient relationships within your practice? And what should health plans or physicians do if patients refuse to comply with clinician recommendations?
In this 90-minute audio seminar, you will learn:
- The latest trends in case and disease management interventions, and how theses processes are establishing a new foothold in improving patient care.
- The changing face of clinical decision support tools: what it is, what it means to the clinician, and to the patient, and where it's headed?
- How data warehouse and reporting tools are supporting and changing the way chronically ill patients are managed.
- How payor-based online records can support front-line providers that are treating patients?
- What the advantages are when clinicians rely on predictive modeling analysis, claims-based information, and other data sources to support their patient treatment goals.
- What are the best methodologies to use to engage the patient when the patient is initially non-compliant? How does the patient's family, the employer, the plan administrator, or the doctor come into play?
- If these medical management innovations and new sources of data are just helpful for large networks and health plans? If there is more, what's in it for the small to midsize physician practices?
FACULTY
Garry Carneal, JD, MA, President of InforMed Medical Management Services joined InforMed after a highly successful term as President of URAC, the nationally known Utilization Review and Medical Management accreditation organization. During his tenure at URAC, Garry expanded URAC's mission from a small boutique accreditation firm to one of the premier health quality organizations in the United States.
Garry's previous work experience include serving as Vice President of the American Association of Health Plans, Legislative Counsel for Health Policy at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Associate Council for the Group Health Association of America, and as an attorney at Epstein, Becker and Green. He earned his undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University, his MA from Yale University and JD from The University of Virginia.
Mary Ellen Gervais, RN, MS, CCM, is Vice President, Project Development, for Medical Management and Rehabilitation Services, a national company that since 1997 has provided comprehensive case management and disease management services across the age spectrum and for a variety of insurance providers. MMARS was one of the first case management companies to be accredited by URAC as an accredited case management organization.
Cost $199.00
SESSION 3:
Is there a Doctor in Our Building? Using EHRs and PHRs to Boost Employee Health through Medical Management
May 25, 2006 1:00 - 2:30 EST
Where: Your Office
As healthcare inflation continues to grow at a staggering double digit pace, some employers are exploring innovative strategies to rein costs, often reducing, even flattening premium increases to net millions of dollars in savings to the employer's bottom line. The secret weapon includes (1) an on-site or contracted physician(s) who practices at the employer-owned clinic and extends services to workers and their families, and (2) access to clinical data through electronic health records. Self-insured employers are increasingly exploring personal health records (PHRs) and electronic health records (EHRs) to assist in medically managing employees with chronic illnesses and rewarding physicians through pay-for-performance compensation plans.
In this 90-minute seminar, you will learn:
- What all is involved in setting up a Medical Management system in your business?
- What is the capital outlay and monthly expenditures in a medical management program?
- What are typical healthcare premium savings in a medical management program?
- What skills and clinical backgrounds do employers look for when hiring a medical management team?
- What is the typical salary and benefits program for on-site clinicians?
- Can you be an employer-contracted physician and still run a practice?
- What privacy and security processes need to be in place before opening an in-house clinic?
- How do you get employees to participate without violating their privacy or relationships with existing providers?
- How long does it take to get a medical management program up and running?
FACULTY
Michael Bryant, MD, is a board certified trauma surgeon, and President, Doctors Direct and Sandhills Physicians Independent Physician Association.
Garry Carneal, JD, MA, President of InforMed Medical Management Services joined InforMed after a highly successful term as President of URAC, the nationally known Utilization Review and Medical Management accreditation organization. During his tenure at URAC, Garry expanded URAC's mission from a small boutique accreditation firm to one of the premier health quality organizations in the United States.
Garry's previous work experience include serving as Vice President of the American Association of Health Plans, Legislative Counsel for Health Policy at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Associate Council for the Group Health Association of America, and as an attorney at Epstein, Becker and Green. He earned his undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University, his MA from Yale University and JD from The University of Virginia.
Cost $199.00
REGISTRATION:
We Offer Three Convenient Ways To Register:
- Go online by clicking here. Or, go to www.physiciansehr.com and select A Healthcare Informatics Colloquium from the main page.
- Call Laurie O'Brien at (816) 309-3896.
- Fax your order to (561) 355-8430. To download the order form, click here.
COST:
The cost of the each seminar and briefing materials is $199 each or save $100 when you purchase the entire 3-part seminar series for $499.
CAN'T MAKE THE DATE, BUT WISH YOU COULD ATTEND?
CD recordings of the seminar and briefing materials will be available for $199 each or $499 for the entire 3-part seminar series.
For more information, go to www.physiciansehr.com, or contact laurie@physiciansehr.com, or call us at (919) 859-9907.
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