Conference Agenda
Thursday, October 19, 2023
4:00pm-6:00pm Early Registration
Pick up your conference materials early, save time in the morning!
4:00pm-6:00pm Networking Reception
Relax and Network! Reception is ages 21 and over only, please.
Friday, October 20, 2023
6:45am-7:45am Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:45am-8:00am Welcome, Announcements, and CHCQM Achievement Award Presentation
Moderators:
Nick J. Paslidis, MD, PhD, MACP, MHCM, CHCQM-PHYADV, FABQAURP
Chairman of the Board - ABQAURP
Medical Director - Accord Hospice
Sunil K. Sinha, MD, MBA, CHCQM, FACHE, FABQAURP
CME Committee Chair - ABQAURP
Vice President Population Health and Quality - Sentara Health Plans
8:00am-9:00am Key Trends in Federal Quality and Safety Policy
Akinluwa Demehin, MPH - Senior Director, Quality & Patient Safety Policy – American Hospital Association
- Explain the public policy context for quality and safety in hospitals.
- Provide an overview of key federal quality and safety programs affecting hospitals and health systems, including those from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
- Discuss overall challenges and trends for quality and safety policy.
9:00am-10:00am Innovations in Population Health
Amy Berk, MSN, RN - Director, Population Health - Microsoft
- Illustrate technologies and solutions to optimize population health.
- Utilize data as the foundation of population health.
- Describe what the future landscape of population health looks like.
10:00am-10:15am Networking Break
10:15am-11:15am Protecting Patients, Practice, License, and Livelihood!
Alok Arora, MD, MBA, FACP, FRCP (UK), CHCQM-PHYADV, CPE - Hospitalist – Advocate Aurora Medical Center – Bay Area
- Identify methods to ensure you are protecting your practice.
- Illustrate practicing safely and minimizing litigation risk.
- Modify healthcare policies to improve compliance.
11:15am-12:15pm Geriatric Emergency Departments Improving Quality of Care and Return on Investment
Kevin Biese, MD - Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- Describe the key characteristics of Geriatric Emergency Departments (GEDs).
- Examine the impact of GEDs on quality of emergency care delivered.
- Illustrate the return on investment of GEDs to hospitals and health care systems.
12:15pm-1:15pm Networking Lunch (Buffet Lunch Provided)
1:15pm-2:15pm Patient Centered Care within the Value-Based Care Model
Douglas Keith Fernandez, MD - Chief Clinical Officer – Privia Health
- Describe how value-based arrangements can deliver on improved quality and reduced costs within a physician-patient centric care model.
- Demonstrate how team-based care, documentation and coding assistance, clinical decision support, and physician leadership training at the practice level can help reduce the administrative burden and improve resilience.
- Explain how specific tools, practice models, and support arrangements can enhance physician and patient engagement.
2:15pm-3:15pm Stabilize, Optimize, Energize: Achieving Next Level Performance in the New Healthcare Reality
Jeffrey Doucette, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, FAAN - Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer – Press Ganey Association
- Identify the latest national level data for healthcare workforce engagement.
- Discuss the impact of COVID-19 on patient and workforce engagement.
- Recognize best practice, evidenced-based strategies for patient and workforce engagement.
3:15pm-3:30pm Networking Break
3:30pm-4:30pm Left Behind, Again? Addressing SDoH Barriers of Digital Equity of the Underserved in the Age of Web3 & the Metaverse
Ann Ingraham, PhD - CEO – Exponential HealthTech Advisors, LLC
- Describe Web3 and the Metaverse.
- Demonstrate the barriers faced and the impact on underserved patients in a Web3 and Metaverse era.
- Explain the clinician’s role to promote health equity in a Web3 and Metaverse environment.
4:30pm-5:30pm Federal Health Quality Measurement - Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going
Ron Kline, MD - Chief Medical Officer - Quality Measurement & Value-Based Incentives Group – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Describe the broad architecture of federal quality measurement and reporting programs.
- Identify new federal initiatives in quality measurement and reporting.
- Illustrate the levers the federal government can use to improve health quality and equity.
5:30pm Closing Remarks and Adjournment
*Schedule, faculty, and content are subject to change.