Continuing Education (CMEs/CEUs)

Continuing education units/credit hours for sessions at the CareScience 2003 National Conference will be awarded from the following organizations:

Washington Hospital Center - Continuing Medical Education (CME)

(CME) Accreditation:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Washington Hospital Center and CareScience. Washington Hospital Center is accredited by ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:
Washington Hospital Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 16 category 1 credits towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
It is the policy of Washington Hospital Center to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored educational programs. All faculty participating in continuing medical education activities sponsored by Washington Hospital Center are required to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. All faculty are also required to disclose any discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices.

Overview of Activity and Statement of Need:
It was determined that this activity is necessary, timely, and improves clinical practice by conducting surveys of the target audience, performing literature searches, and reviewing past CME program evaluations.

Learning Objectives of the Conference:
As a result of attending this conference, attendees should be able to:

• Discuss how healthcare executives and physician leaders can balance the challenges of delivering outstanding quality of care under severe budget constraints;
• Demonstrate use of quality and financial performance indicators to drive organizational change and measure improvement;
• Develop an outcomes-focused strategy that measures and monitors patient safety and outcomes and care processes to ensure that best treatment choices are made;
• Describe how data can be translated into meaningful information used by clinicians to improve care processes, reduce complications and improve compliance with evidence-based medicine.
  
  Target Audience: 200-250 participants, including:
  
  
• Executives: Hospital CEOs, CFOs and COOs
• Physicians: Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), Medical Directors of Service Lines, and Physicians
• Care Managers: Clinical Nurse Specialists, Care Coordinators and CaseManagers
• Quality Managers: Quality Directors, Performance Improvement Directors, Clinical Analysts, and Clinical Data Analysts
  
  Methods of Instruction and Evaluation:
  Power point presentations, lecture, demonstration, panel discussion and Q&A. An evaluation will be given to each participant at the conclusion of this educational activity.
  
  ADA Statement:
  Washington Hospital Center wishes to ensure that no individual with a disability is excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently from other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids or services identified in the Americans with Disabilities Act. Please contact (415) 674-7532 to notify us of your needs.
  
  Commercial Support:
  This educational activity is not supported by any external grants from individual companies; no external commercial support is being provided for this activity.
  

AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association

AHIMA is the professional organization for medical records personal. Continuing education credits are used to maintain professional certification. CareScience National Conference was approved for 14 credit hours for professional recertification by AHIMA.

HCQB - Healthcare Quality Certification Board

HCQB provides certification for Quality personal (CPHQ). In order to maintain current CPHQ status, Quality personal must meet certain continuing education requirements annually. The CareScience National Conference was approved for 14 credit hours for CPHQ re-certification by HCQB.

Penn State Nurses Association - CareScience has been approved to offer 38.4 credit hours for nurses who attend the CareScience conference. These credit hours are offered by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association which is a accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.