A recent study from the NIH indicates that there are 50 million or more Americans have high BP warranting some form of treatment. Periodically there are new guidelines released designed to increase awareness, prevention, treatment and control of hypertension. Educating providers on the new guidelines will hopefully increase patient care.
For more than three decades, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has administered the National High Blood Pressure Education...
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Steven Dunn, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Cardiology
Adjunct Assistant Professor
College of Pharmacy...
Kentucky leads the nation in diseases related to tobacco. Secondhand smoke exposure is a major problem in our state with the high prevalence of adult smokers. This presentation will address the issues that concern Kentucky’s children who are being exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke. An understanding in the problems related to secondhand smoke exposure will help a healthcare provider better treat children and their families.
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Don Hayes Jr, MD, FAAP, FACP, FCCP
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics & Internal Medicine
University of Kentucky
College of Medicine,
Opioid addiction is a significant public health problem in the United States, associated with the spread of infectious diseases, crime, premature death, and significant psychiatric and medical comorbidities. There are an estimated 1 million people meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV criteria for prescription opioid dependence according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health and an additional 1 million people addicted to heroin according to the Office of National Drug Control...
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Female urologic conditions including urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and urinary tract infections are common medical problems. The primary care physician is often the first medical provider to encounter patients with these conditions. They should be familiar with the basic evaluation and treatment of these conditions as well as indications for referral.
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Katie Ballert, MD
University of Kentucky
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
Limited health literacy is very common among patients in the US. Managing such patients effectively requires that health care providers understand the nature of health literacy and possess specific clinical skills both to assess the health literacy of their patients and to communicate with them in a manner consistent with their health literacy levels.
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Medicare has authorized Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) to review Medicare claims for a three-year period with the goal of identifying billing and coding errors and collecting fees and penalties for incorrect claims. The evaluation and management code assigned by the physician during an encounter and supporting documentation are essential to accurate coding, billing and appropriate reimbursement. Penalties created by the RAC audits may jeopardize the viability of safety net providers. Well...
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Sherry Thomas, CCP, CCP-AS
CEO/Director of Education
PHIA/Medical Staff SOS, Inc.
Louisville, KY
Lean management is increasingly popular in healthcare, but there is a shortage of information applying lean management to primary care clinics. Through this training, primary care providers can expect to improve patient flow and increase their capacity to see patients.
With most organizations' Lean Implementation, they are not seeing Lean as a management system, therefore, missing key elements to support that system. These key elements are vital for the success of a Lean...
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Michael Hoseus, MA
Executive Director, Center for Quality People & Organizations
President, Lean Culture...
About 3 million Veterans enrolled in the VA Health Care System live in rural areas. These rural Veterans sometimes cannot find a way to travel to see a doctor or other health care workers. Rural Veterans might not live near a VA hospital or a VA doctor's office. Some rural Veterans need help to schedule visits to see a doctor or to schedule medical tests or to get medicine from their local drugstore.
The Office of Rural Health (ORH) is a part of the Veterans Health...
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Anselm A. Beach, MS
Chief Planning Officer
Department of Veterans Affairs
MidSouth Healthcare Network
Nashville,...
Lean management is increasingly popular in healthcare, but there is a shortage of information applying lean management to primary care clinics. Through this training, primary care providers can expect to improve patient flow and increase their capacity to see patients.
There is a general gap in Lean involving leadership in that they don't understand or perform their role - without leadership, Lean will not work.
Lean management is increasingly popular in healthcare, but there is a shortage of information applying lean management to primary care clinics. Through this training, primary care providers can expect to improve patient flow and increase their capacity to see patients.
Most organizations implementing Lean have Lean as a "parallel" program and it is not part of the daily "way we work." This session discusses problem solving as the key activity of this daily...
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Michael Hoseus, MA
Executive Director, Center for Quality People & Organizations
President, Lean Culture...
Recent heart disease and stroke statistics indicates that an alarming 23% of patients do not fill their cardiac medications within 7 days post discharge and 18% of patients do not fill the prescriptions even after 120 days. A majority of patients were found to have stopped taking β-blockers between 30 and 90 days with only 45% of the patients taking them at 1 year. Disturbingly, 12% of patients discharged with aspirin, β-blockers, and a statin were found to have discontinued all 3...
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Anemia is one of the most common findings in clinical medicine. It is a symptom of disease rather than a disease itself, and therefore the ability to make an accurate diagnosis of the reason for anemia is a critical element of patient evaluation. This activity will assist the participant in developing a logical approach to the diagnosis of anemia, and in distinguishing those anemia syndromes which can be managed in the primary care practice from those requiring specialist referral.
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Robert T. Means Jr, MD
Interim Director
University of Kentucky
Markey Cancer Center
According to the American Pain Foundation the following statistics were published in the March 2010 article:1 in 4 Americans suffer from recurrent pain (day-long bout of pain/month);1 in 10 Americans report having persistent pain of at least one year’s duration;1 in 5 individuals over the age of 65 report pain persisting for more than 24 hours in the preceding month – 6 in 10 report pain persisting > 1 year; 2 out of 3 US armed forces veterans report having persistent pain...
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Jay S. Grider, DO, PhD
Medical Director, UKHealthcare Pain Services
Division Chief, Pain and Regional Anesthesia...
STDs are common, costly, and preventable. Each year an estimated 15 million new STD infections occur in the United States, and nearly 4 million teenagers are infected with an STD. The direct and indirect costs of the major STDs and their complications, including sexually transmitted HIV infection, are conservatively estimated at $17 billion annually.
Genital dermatology encompasses a wide variety of lesions and skin rashes that affect the genital area. Some are found only on the...
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Nicholas Van Wagoner, MD
Division of Infectious Disease
Department of Medicine
University of Alabama Birmingham
The inability to absorb certain sugars affects the lives of patients not only within Kentucky but also in the US and beyond. The symptoms that present themselves for these patients can be misdiagnosed due to the challenge of detecting them properly. The lack of information available concerning identifying and treating this condition prolongs the risk of misdiagnosis. This course will give the participant information concerning certain malabsorption and tolerance of certain...
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Jay A. Perman, MD
President
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
As the United States becomes a more racially and ethnically diverse nation, health care systems and providers need to respond to patients’ varied perspectives, values, and behaviors about health and well-being. Failure to understand and manage social and cultural differences may have significant health consequences for minority groups in particular. Read More
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Roberto Dansie, PhD
Faculty
Psychosocial Trauma Institute
Missouri School of Medicine
Obesity has become a national issue. Kentucky, specifically, ranks in the top 10 states for obesity and sedentary lifestyle, in addition to diabetes. Type 2 diabetes used to be “adult onset diabetes”; however, in recent years, diabetes in adolescents is on the rise, primarily due to obesity. Health care professionals need to recognize the problem, identify children and adolescents at risk, and understand appropriate treatments.
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Holly Divine, PharmD, CGP, CDE
Associate Professor
Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience Coordinator
Community Pharmacy...
Project Access was created to increase access to comprehensive and coordinated healthcare services for children and youth with epilepsy residing in medically underserved and rural areas. Nine states are working to implement effective communication and outreach strategies to serve selected underserved populations. The Washington demonstration program is working with the Hispanic population in Yakima and Benton/Franklin Counties. This workshop presents some of the barriers confronted by rural...
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Lean management is increasingly popular in healthcare, but there is a shortage of information applying lean management to primary care clinics. Through this training, primary care providers can expect to improve patient flow and increase their capacity to see patients.
Lean tools are misunderstood in the Lean community with people not understanding their purpose in Lean Management. This course will lead to a better understanding of not only "what" the tools are, but also...
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Michael Hoseus, MA
Executive Director, Center for Quality People & Organizations
President, Lean Culture...
