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PRESS RELEASE:
28th Annual Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Conference
Thursday-Friday-Saturday - September 22-24, 2005
The Westin O'Hare
Join a team of like-minded professionals involved in defining solutions for today's crisis plagued health care environment. A wide spectrum of topics will be discussed ranging from patient safety concerns to legal issues. Date: September 22 - 24, 2005.
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PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800.998.6030 ext. 117
Email: privers@abqaurp.org
Website: www.ABQAURP.org
TAMPA FL USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICETM -- AUGUST 18, 2005: 28th Annual Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Conference - Thursday-Friday-Saturday - September 22-24, 2005 - The Westin O'Hare.
3-DAY PATIENT SAFETY SEMINAR:
Join us in Chicago for our newly formatted three-day conference offering you choices and opportunity. Create the seminar tailored for YOUR needs! Choose a Thursday activity and the Friday seminar. Save Friday to sightsee and attend Thursday and Saturday. Or attend all 3 days for maximum credit of 14.5 hours. Focus on the Patient Safety Crisis sweeping the nation. Not only do you as a provider need to be concerned, but you as a consumer need to stay informed.
- Address patient safety concerns through interactive participation in a role playing scenario
- Explore legal issues in quality, patient safety and risk management
- Discuss patient safety culture dynamics
- Examine the benefits of patient safety for the consumer and healthcare provider
- Review a systematic approach to improving outcomes with clinical decision support
- Review current consumer driven trends in patient safety
- Learn about pay for performance
- Explore medicine, ethics and politics in end of life decisions
- Review the current trends in achieving higher levels of patient safety
- Address disclosure and reporting of problematic adverse events
- Learn about the evolving role of disease management, predictive modeling and consumer directed care
FEATURING A PATIENT SAFETY WARGAME PRESENTED BY BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON:
Interested in participating in a simulation where you and your team are asked to solve a patient safety crisis in your hospital? If so, join ABQAURP and its partner Booz Allen Hamilton in our Patient Safety Wargame.
This six-hour reality exercise presents participants with a simulation that must be "solved" by participant teams. Booz Allen works to make the wargame scenario as real as possible by providing role players representing physicians, nurses, patients, family members and administrators. This reality exercise generates unexpected responses in participants, offering an eye-opening experience for those responsible for patient safety initiatives within their hospital or clinic.
The Patient Safety Wargame provides an integrated and interdisciplinary methodology to address patient safety concerns. In a typical wargame, teams of participants representing various stakeholders, interact in a series of moves to address patient safety issues. Stakeholder Teams assess the environment, develop a strategy, and take actions - collaborating with others as needed or appropriate. A Patient Team assesses the actions of the Stakeholders and determines impact, while a Control Team ensures the entire exercise stays on track, introduces external shocks, and provides representation of all other entities.
Don't miss this important Patient Safety conference. Register now!
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Physicians from all Specialties, Registered Nurses, Chiropractors, Medical Directors, Managed Care Professionals, QA/UR Professionals, Health Law Attorneys, Third Party Administrators, Hospital Administrators & CEOs, Health Care Managers, Risk Managers, Case Managers, Employers
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Please call 800-998-6030 ext. 117 to register for this conference.
SCHEDULE (subject to change):
THURSDAY, September 22, 2005
Registration Times: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm (for Thursday, Friday & Saturday events)
12:30 pm - 6:00 pm Track 1: Patient Safety Wargame Booz Allen Hamilton Team
- Stress-test alternative strategies, identifying potential risks and innovative solutions
- Explore the potential impacts of each decision and handoff in the continuum of care for one patient
- Identify opportunities for collaboration among business, government, and healthcare industry leaders to improve patient safety
- Educate all stakeholders about how best to mobilize the unique skills and resources of all sectors
- Reshape perspectives on the dynamics and drivers for future successes
- Build consensus for next steps to improve and enhance the response to patient safety needs
12:30 pm - 6:00 pm Track 2: Legal Issues in Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management Ann James, JD, Stanford University & Donald Holmquest, MD, PhD, JD, McKesson Provider Technologies Inc.
- Review the legal issues associated with quality, patient safety and risk management
- Explore what physicians and nurses should know to reduce organizational and personal risk
- Learn how patient safety is intertwined with risk management and other legal factors
FRIDAY, September 23, 2005
Registration Times: 7:00 am - 7:55 am (for Friday & Saturday events)
7:00 am - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 8:15 am Welcome Address: Arthur I. Broder, MD, Chairman of the Board
8:15 am - 9:10 am Keynote Address: "Quality/Patient Safety...A View From Both Sides of The Fence!" Marie Cleary-Fishman, RN, Senior Vice President, Performance Distinction and Home Health Services
- Explore the current environment of Quality/Patient Safety and it's impact on healthcare's customers
- Explore the role of the healthcare provider as "customer"
- Discuss the un-measurable benefits of a focus on Quality/Patient Safety
9:15 am - 10:10 am Lecture 1: Culture Dynamics in Patient Safety Tom Garcia, Senior Consultant, Culture Dynamics
- Understand the key steps in becoming a high reliability organization
- Learn the vital components that make up a culture of safety
- Learn the process of diagnosing and managing culture
10:15 am - 10:35 am Break
10:40 am - 11:35 am Lecture 2: A Systematic Approach to Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support Jerry Osheroff, MD, Thomson Micromedex
- Explore a broad definition of clinical decision support
- Examine a systematic approach to improving outcomes with CDS
- Discuss a resource for supporting CDS implementation
11:40 am - 1:25 pm Lunch (To include: Round Table Discussion led by Dr. Osheroff - limited seating for this discussion)
1:30 pm - 2:25 pm Lecture 3: Consumer Issues in Health Care Martin J. Hatlie, Esq., Partnership for Patient Safety
- Review current consumer driven trends in patient safety
- Learn how consumers can become more involved in advancing patient safety
- Understand how both the provider and consumer can best work together to enhance patient safety
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm Break
3:00 pm - 3:55 pm Lecture 4: Is Pay for Performance the Future? Neil Solomon, MD, NAS Consulting
- Learn how pay for performance programs work
- Understand how these programs can impact quality and patient safety
- Review case studies of pay for performance programs that physicians embrace
4:00 pm - 4:55 pm Lecture 5: Quinlan to Schiavo: Medicine, Ethics and Politics in End of Life Decisions Dennis Robbins, PhD, MPH, Integrated Decisions, Ethics, Alternatives and Solutions
- Trace the legal and ethical legacy from Quinlan through Schiavo
- Review the medical, ethical and political issues associated with end of life decisions
- Explore the impact of the Schiavo case on current medical practice
- Gain guidance of developing appropriate policies and procedures in this domain that promote sound medical and patient autonomy
- Explore incongruities with consumer-engaged health care and evidence-based medicine
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Reception
SATURDAY, September 24, 2005
Registration Times: 7:30 am - 8:55 am (for Saturday events)
7:30 am - 8:55 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:55 am Keynote Address: Issues in Patient Safety Nancy Dickey, MD, Texas A&M University System, Health Science Center
- Review the current trends in achieving higher levels of patient safety
- Learn the key factors in delivering safe care
- Understand the role of healthcare providers in enhancing patient safety
10:00 am - 10:25 am Break
10:30 am - 11:25 am Lecture 1: The Gray Zone of Medical Errors: Disclosure and Reporting of Problematic Adverse Events John Banja, PhD, Emory University
- Review the difficulty in identifying medical errors
- Understand the peril and responsibility of choosing to assign blame
- Learn what to do when your hospital lawyer advises one thing and your malpractice carrier another
11:30 am - 12:25 pm Lecture 2: The Evolving Role of Disease Management, Predictive Modeling and Consumer Directed Care Joel Brill, MD, Predictive Health
- Learn how disease management will change under consumer directed care
- Review how predictive modeling enhances consumer directed care
- Explore the future trends in disease management and predictive modeling and their potential impact on cost and quality
Supporting material available for purchase before and during the conference:
Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism
by John D. Banja, Clinical Ethicist and Associate Professor, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, (c) 2005.
The Patient Safety Handbook
by Barbara Youngberg, JD, BSN, MSW, Vice President, University Health System Consortium, Inc.,
Martin J. Hatlie, JD, President, Partnership for Patient Safety, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, (c) 2004.
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