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Category
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Event date
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Medical Director and Clinician Leadership Forum 2023
  • Transplantation
  • 5.50 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 5.50 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 5.50 AMA - Physicians
  • 5.50 ANCC - Nurses
  • 5.50 APA - Psychologists
  • 5.50 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 5.50 CDR - Dietitians
  • 5.50 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
The Medical Director and Clinician Leadership Forum is designed to bring medical directors and other executive clinical leaders together to learn from nationally recognized practitioners and thought leaders. Faculty will share their insights into topics that are critical to the management of large patient populations.
Current Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Ensuring Safe and Effective Pain Management
  • Wellness
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 ADA - CERP (Dentists/Allied Dental Staff)
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
$0.00
Clinical practice guidelines are used in health care as an educational tool to improve patient care as a potential solution to reduce inappropriate variations in care. Opioid prescribing guidelines provide clear and comprehensive, evidence-based recommendations incorporating current information and practices for practitioners. This activity will examine the scope, impact, key statistics and factors contributing to the opioid crisis and highlight the current recommended opioid prescribing guidelines, their challenges and the role of state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP). Strategies to aid in implementing the opioid prescribing guidelines and to mitigate the opioid crisis will also be discussed.
Threading the Needle: Practical Considerations in the Modern, Evidence-based Management of Type 2 Diabetes
  • Disease management
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This activity will assist learners in identifying optimal lifestyle and behavioral changes that can impact disease development and progression in their patients and will discuss practical strategies and forms of support that HCPs can offer to assist patients in setting healthy lifestyle goals. Learners will examine how appropriate prescribing decisions must be based on a comparative analysis of diabetes medications and will also review disease etiology and biological changes seen during disease progression. Lastly, the presenter will discuss policy and system changes that can best assist in integrating evidence into daily practice for the purpose of maximizing health in individuals with T2D. 
Why Do Smart People Make Mistakes? The Answers are Worthy of a Nobel Prize
  • Behavioral health
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
Participants in this activity will learn about the system framework theory of decision-making and how System I- and System II-type cognitive processes can best be utilized in the health care setting. The role of heuristics (mental “shortcuts” and rules-of-thumb) will be examined, as well as the types of cognitive biases (inherent and often unconscious systematic errors in thinking) that most commonly result in negative health outcomes. Debiasing strategies to address these negative influences on rational and optimal decision-making that are applicable to the self and the health care team will be explored. 
CMS HEDIS and Stars Pharmacy Overview—Medication Adherence, Statin Use in Patients and More
  • Disease management
  • 2.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 2.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 2.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 2.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 2.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 2.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 2.00 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
Participants in this activity will learn how CMS measures medication adherence, its role in patient qualification status, impact on claims algorithms, and potential caveats of these determinations. Strategies to address common barriers to medication adherence will be discussed, along with best practices that may improve adherence. In addition, the five measures included in the 2021 Medicare Part D star ratings, including those regarding medication adherence for diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, as well as statin use in persons with diabetes, will be reviewed.
What’s Special about Specialty Pharmacy?
  • Disease management
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 CCMC - General - Case Managers
  • 1.00 CDR - Dietitians
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This session examines the cost of development and growth of these pharmaceuticals and details the specific role that specialty pharmacy plays in making these products accessible. The high costs of therapies and patient and medication management are also discussed along with the role and value of drug benefit programs.
Transition of Care: Our Patients Are Growing Up
  • Disease management
  • Pediatrics
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 0.75 AMA - Physicians
  • 0.75 ANCC - Nurses
  • 0.75 APA - Psychologists
  • 0.75 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 0.75 CCMC - General - Case Managers
  • 0.75 CDR - Dietitians
  • 0.75 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This activity provides a thorough understanding of the recommended health care transition (HCT) components, considerations and goals that should be constant across HCT planning. It discusses the importance of coordinating the efforts of the health care team, adolescent and family to ensure continuity of care, positive health outcomes, and optimal quality of life.
Chronic Kidney Disease, Metabolic and Cardiovascular Disease: Insights into Present and Future Treatment
  • Disease management
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 0.75 AMA - Physicians
  • 0.75 ANCC - Nurses
  • 0.75 APA - Psychologists
  • 0.75 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 0.75 CCMC - General - Case Managers
  • 0.75 CDR - Dietitians
  • 0.75 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This activity examines current data about chronic kidney disease (CKD), including its health outcomes and relationships with cardiovascular and metabolic disease. Treatment regimens aimed at delaying progression and their outcomes are reviewed, along with current knowledge regarding the pathophysiologic and genetic basis of this disease. Areas of emerging interest in research on potential new treatments targeting the causes of CKD are discussed, including genomic analysis, and their relevance to clinical care.
Exploring Opioid Crisis Dynamics: New Perspectives and Strategies
  • Disease management
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 0.75 ADA - CERP (Dentists/Allied Dental Staff)
  • 0.75 AMA - Physicians
  • 0.75 ANCC - Nurses
  • 0.75 APA - Psychologists
  • 0.75 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 0.75 CDR - Dietitians
  • 0.75 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This activity will focus on enhancing our understanding of the current opioid crisis and will explore new angles and address current concerns, including the use of over-the-counter intranasal naloxone, the evolving landscape of opioids with a focus on fentanyl, the intersection between suicide and opioid overdoses, the significance of the new 988 helpline in the crisis, and the viability of home-based detox startups. Strategies to effectively address the ongoing challenges of the opioid crisis will be discussed.