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Bringing Home the Care Continuum: Harnessing High Tech, High Touch Home Care Medicine
AAHCP Annual Scientific and Practice Management Meeting
May 3-4, 2012
Objectives:
- Participants will understand the health policy, health economic, epidemiologic, and demographic trends that impact home medical care.
- Participants will better understand how to successfully manage a home medical care practice from the logistical, quality, and financial perspectives.
- Participants will understand “state of the art” diagnosis and treatment of commonly encountered clinical scenarios in home medical care.
- Participants will have opportunities for focused learning in “niche” areas such as home care education, research, and alternative practice settings.
| Day 1 Thursday May 3, 2012 | ||
| Time | Session | Speaker(s) |
| 7:30 – 8:00 | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:00 – 9:30 | Opening Remarks and Moderated Panel Discussion: Independence at Home Act Policy and Implementation Update for Medicare, Medicaid and Managed Care |
Peter Boling, MD James Pyles, Esq. Mike Tudeen Bruce Kinosian, MD |
| 9:30 – 10:30 |
Special Update on Medicare Payment Policy,the Accountable Care Act and What it Means for Home Care Medicine Providers | James Pyles, Esq. Jean Yudin, MSN, RN, CS Kathy Kemle, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA |
| 10:30 – 10:40 |
Break |
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| 10:40 – 11:30 | Moderated Panel Discussion: Measuring Success in Home Care Medicine: Tracking, Benchmarking and Improving Productivity, Efficiency, Quality and Patient Experience | Adam Groff, MD Bill Zafirau, MD Eric DeJonge, MD Gary Swartz, JD, MPA Steven Landers, MD, MPH (moderator) |
| 11:30 – 11:40 | Break | |
| 11:40 – 12:30 | Focused Breakout SessionsBreakout A - Employer/Managed Care Contracting For Small/Medium Home Care Medical Groups |
Gary Swartz, JD, MPA Brent Feorene C. Gresham Bayne, MD |
Breakout B - The Concierge Medicine Option and Stating Your Case for Getting Capital for New Care Models |
Thomas Reed Michael Goldberg (invited) Chip Measells |
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| 12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch & Exhibits |
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| 1:30 – 2:30 |
Practice Management Keynote: The Health Consumer |
Mike Magee, MD |
| 2:30 – 3:20 | Focused Breakout SessionsBreakout A - Integration of Ancillary Diagnostic Services |
C. Gresham Bayne, MD Thomas Parker, MD Peter McCullough (invited) |
Breakout B - Key Topics in Elder Law |
Edward Ratner, MD (moderator) Marie Therese-Connolly (invited) |
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| 3:20 – 3:30 |
Break |
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| 3:30 – 4:20 | Focused Breakout Sessions: Assuring the Delivery, Relationships and Payment Services and Quality Breakout A - Starting My Home Care Medicine Practice |
Gary Swartz, JD, MPA Brent Feorene C. Gresham Bayne, MD |
Breakout B - Medical Director and Community Relations: |
Edward Ratner, MD Rebecca Conant, MD Cindy Pinson, MD George Kikano, MD |
|
| 4:20 – 5:00 |
Practice Management Wrap-up |
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| 6:30 – 8:30 | Fundraising/Networking Reception (tentative) | |
Day 2 Friday May 4, 2012
| Time | Session | Speaker(s) |
| 7:30 – 8:00 | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:00 – 9:20 | Opening Remarks | Bruce Leff, MD President, AAHCP Steven Landers, MD, MPH 2012 Program Chair |
| Moderated Panel Discussion: The State of Mobile Communications Technology for Home Care Medicine |
Arthur Lane (invited) C. Gresham Bayne, MD |
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| 9:20 – 9:30 | Break | |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Focused Breakout SessionsBreakout A – Teaching the Next Generation: Precepting and Teaching During House Calls |
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Thomas Parker, MD Bill Mills, MD |
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| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:30 |
Academy Annual Meeting, Annual Report & Awards |
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| 11:30 – 12:20 | Keynote Address: Why Coordinated Care Matters to Patients and Families |
Jonathan Rauch |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch & Exhibits | |
| 1:30 – 2:20 | Focused Breakout SessionsBreakout A – Hospital at Home: The Clinically Home Approach |
Rich Rakowskie |
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Mara Benner Kelly Jalowiec, RN Marcia Reissig, RN |
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| 2:20 – 2:30 | Break | |
| 2:30 – 4:00 | Moderated Panel Discussion: New Care Models and their Intersection with Home Care Medicine, How Academy Members Capitalize on the Transitional Care, Hospital Readmission Reduction Medical Home and Other Care Management Models | Stephen Holland, MD Allen Dobson, MD Brad Stuard (invited) James Pyles, Esq. Yale Sage |
| 4:00 – 4:15 | President’s Closing Remarks |
Bruce Leff, MD |








