Register Now for Integrated Healthcare Forum, November 13, Nashville, TN

The Integrated Healthcare Forum is an exclusive one-day event, held on November 13 in conjunction with EMS World Expo in Nashville, TN, that brings together experts in the fast-growing field of integrated healthcare to present information on:

• Education and training requirements across the spectrum of healthcare providers;
• Pilot projects across the country;
• Developing contracts with payers;
• Utilizing and implementing patient care data.

Attend the Integrated Healthcare Forum to learn how to conduct a community assessment to develop an integrated healthcare program in your area, and find out how integrated healthcare serves to meet the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim of better health, better healthcare and reduced costs.

This is a must-attend event for hospital and health system executives, EMS leaders, home health management, physicians, nurses and other caregivers.

Attendance at the Forum is included with a 3-day EMS World Expo core program registration. Separate registration is available for $25. Click here to register.

Integrated Healthcare Forum Session Schedule

8 a.m.–8:30 a.m.: Introduction to the Integrated Healthcare Forum

Moderated by Eric H. Beck, DO, MPH, NREMT-P, Jeff Beeson, DO, & Brent Myers, MD, MPH, FACEP

We currently have an unprecedented opportunity to return the focus of healthcare to the patient via the integration of healthcare providers, the intelligent use of data and an outcomes orientation. Integrated Healthcare Forum moderators Eric Beck, DO, MPH, NREMT-P, Jeff Beeson, DO, and Brent Myers, MD, MPH, FACEP, introduce how this new healthcare landscape will allow for time-appropriate and needs-matched care for all of our patients; the challenges we face with implementing programs; how data collection, benchmarking and technology are driving integrated healthcare; and how agencies are developing pilot programs and best practices that showcase the impact integrated healthcare can have meeting the IHI’s Triple Aim of improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of healthcare.

8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m.: Integrated Healthcare: Developing the Workforce

Moderated by Jeff Beeson, DO

Communication, collaboration and cooperation are the keys to successful delivery of integrated healthcare. What will it take to develop the workforce required to deliver integrated healthcare to a variety of patients, working with a variety of payers? Attend this session to find out how EMS, nursing, home healthcare, hospitals and other integrated healthcare entities can bring their concerns to the table, discuss pilot projects and implement programs that improve patient care.

Panelists include:

• Sharon Adkins, MSN, RN, Executive Director, Tennessee Nurses Association; Tennessee MIH Committee Member
• Reg P. James, III, NREMT-P (ret.), CEO and Co-Founder, Home Physician Care, LLC; MIH/CP Advisor to State of Georgia Office of EMS and Trauma
• Brian LaCroix, President, Allina Health Medical Services
• Anne Robinson Montera, RN, BSN, Public Health Nurse Consultant, CO
• Jonathan Sague, MSN, ACNP-BC, EMT-P, National Director, Evolution Health
• Brandy Sparkman, RN, BSN, Vice President of Clinical Integration for Guardian Healthcare
• Julia Triplett, RN, MSN, MBA, Director of Staff Development, Vanderbilt Home Health; Tennessee MIH Committee Member

9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.: Integrated Healthcare: Educating and Training Providers

Moderated by Brent Myers, MD, MPH, FACEP

Integrated healthcare brings together many different healthcare professions, with different educational and training backgrounds. What are the new requirements for integrated healthcare practitioners? If we are looking at expanded roles for providers, what does that mean in terms of additional education and training? Should we be developing national curricula to train providers, or are patients best served by programs developed on a local level? Attend this session led by Wake County EMS Medical Director Dr. Brent Myers to discuss training and protocol development for integrated healthcare practitioners.

Panalists include:

• Anne Robinson Montera, RN, BSN, Public Health Nurse Consultant, CO
• Kevin Spratlin, MS, NREMT-P, Chair of Tennessee MIH Committee; Paramedic Instructor/Coordinator, Memphis Fire Department
• Dan Swayze, PhD, Vice President/COO, Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania

10:30 a.m.–11 a.m.: Break

11 a.m.–Noon: Integrated Healthcare: Regulation and Reimbursement

Moderated by Eric Beck, DO, MPH, NREMT-P

There are many unknowns in regard to implementing integrated healthcare delivery programs in your communities. Do you need new laws or rules in your state to support your new activities? How will your agency or organization fund these programs? How can we collaborate to create a mutually beneficial working environment? Find out how states such as Minnesota and Tennessee have changed legislation in order to develop pilot programs, and learn how reimbursement models may be transforming to accommodate integrated healthcare payer programs.

Panelists include:

• Janet Haebler, MSN, RN, Associate Director, State Government Affairs, American Nurses Association
• Brian LaCroix, President, Allina Health Medical Services
• Asbel Montes, Vice President, Government Relations & Reimbursement, Acadian Ambulance
• Bill Paschall, Vice President, Business Development, Vivify Health
• Donna Tidwell, Tennessee State EMS Director; Tennessee MIH Committee Member

1 p.m.–2 p.m.: Integrated Healthcare: You’ve Got Questions—We’ve Got Answers

Moderated by Eric Beck, DO, MPH, NREMT-P, Jeff Beeson, DO, & Brent Myers, MD, MPH, FACEP

Join our moderators as they summarize key points discussed during the morning sessions and facilitate a Q&A period between panel participants and audience members.

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