HOME STUDY COURSES
ABQAURP continuously strives to offer today's health care professionals convenient ways to increase and maintain their continuing education. Offering home study versions of our conferences provides access to our content with flexibility, allowing them to customize their education style and timeline. Additionally, Diplomates may utilize these courses to maintain their Diplomate status with the Board.We currently offer two types of home study experiences, audio CDs and/or multimedia CD-ROMs/DVDs. Availability of media varies from course to course. All courses include a course syllabus and a post test. To meet the requirement for recertification, the post test must be returned six (6) weeks prior to the recertification deadline. Scoring results must be 70% or above to maintain your board certification.
Multimedia CD-ROMs/DVDs combine audio, video and presentation slides to reinforce the content being discussed. In addition to being a richer experience than standard audio CDs, the self-contained nature of CD-ROMs/DVDs means no downloading or waiting on your Internet connection like traditional online courses.
The following home study
CE courses
are now available:"Survive and Thrive in the Changing Health Care Environment"
36th Annual Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Conference
Please note: ABQAURP is going paperless! This home study syllabus is available on CD-Rom for you to view or print from your computer and will be shipped with the audio CDs. (If you wish to purchase a printed book, a $25 printing fee will be added to your order.) Please see order form for details.
The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ABQAURP designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8 hours in AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABQAURP is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing to provide continuing education for nurses. ABQAURP designates this activity for 8 contact hours through the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94.
This activity is valid from May 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015.
As we transition from volume based to value based care, health care providers and other stakeholders are struggling to identify key drivers to address the challenges around the redesign of health care delivery and payment reforms. What will be the role of integrated care management, ACO’s, and transitions of care models and how can we efficiently integrate all transactions of care across the care continuum?
Discover what the practitioner needs to not only survive, but to thrive in the evolution of health care. At the conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:
- Explain the relationship between hospital-based and community-based approaches to preventing readmissions.
- Evaluate: Readmission or Post-Hospital Syndrome….what do you think?
- Determine how value is rewarded through care redesign and improving transitions of care.
- Identify and manage health care cost drivers through a well-designed care management program.
- Decide if your coding, documentation, and payments are congruent?
- Recognize community-based programs successfully employed to manage care transitions.
- Discuss what you need to be a sought-after provider by EVERY payer.
-Terri Street, RN, BSN
This course is intended for Physicians of all specialties, Nurses, and Other Health Care Professionals with appropriate CME credit and nursing contact hours offered for each profession.
Audio CDs
Diplomates $230 - Professional Members $270 - Non-Members $330
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"Transitions of Care and Reducing Readmissions Boot Camp"
Please note: ABQAURP is going paperless! This home study syllabus is available on CD-Rom for you to view or print from your computer and will be shipped with the audio CDs. (If you wish to purchase a printed book, a $25 printing fee will be added to your order.) Please see order form for details.
The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ABQAURP designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8 hours in AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABQAURP is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing to provide continuing education for nurses. ABQAURP designates this activity for 8 contact hours through the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94.
This activity is valid from May 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015.
“Nearly one in five Medicare patients is readmitted within a month, which the government considers a prime symptom of an overly expensive and uncoordinated system.”
It is clear that CMS, and intuitively other payers of health care, are aggressively looking at every opportunity to improve efficiencies and reduce waste in all transactions of care across the health care continuum. To provide participants an understanding of, and tools needed to work successfully with, the rules for Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, ABQAURP presents an intensive one day event to address this tumultuous time in health care.
Whip your knowledge and skills into shape!
At the conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:
- Provide an overview and update of national strategies addressing transitions of care and reduction of readmissions
- Discuss specific roles physicians and their extenders can play to reduce inappropriate readmissions
- Discover Transitions of Care opportunities to reduce readmissions in high risk patients
- Explore initiatives that have been successfully employed to reduce readmissions in hospitals
-David G. Schulke
Vice President, Research Programs,Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) / American Hospital Association
This course is intended for Physicians of all specialties, Nurses, and Other Health Care Professionals with appropriate CME credit and nursing contact hours offered for each profession.
Audio CDs
Diplomates $230 - Professional Members $270 - Non-Members $330
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"Collaborative Care – Opportunities and Challenges"
35th Annual Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Conference
Please note: ABQAURP is going paperless! This home study syllabus is available on CD-Rom for you to view or print from your computer and will be shipped with the audio CDs. (If you wish to purchase a printed book, a $25 printing fee will be added to your order.) Please see order form for details.
The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ABQAURP designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8 hours in AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABQAURP is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing to provide continuing education for nurses. ABQAURP designates this activity for 8 contact hours through the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94.
This activity is valid from August 1, 2012 through December 31, 2014.
The health care system is evolving into one that will reduce costs by incenting physicians to provide timely, evidence-based, coordinated care; reimbursing them on the basis of efficiency, quality, and patient outcomes.
Small practices and groups are struggling to adapt to economic credentialing, provider profiling, and financial incentives with unclear boundaries. The specialist is facing being cut by the team; without knowing how the statistics are calculated. The patient and their family must play an active role. The payers must decide what strategy benefits everyone; do clinical outcomes align with performance measures at lower costs?
A team-based approach to care needs coordination among all those involved with the patient (i.e. primary care physician, hospitalist, caregiver, specialist, and case manager) to ensure safe, timely, and smooth transitions throughout the health care continuum.
At the conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:
- Discuss opportunities and challenges of the Medicare Shared Savings Plan
- Recognize the concept of Medical Home
- Evaluate CMS’ Interim Final Rule for Fraud and Abuse Waiver, i.e. waiver of Stark Laws
- Discuss the application of Quality Measures in practice
- Identify how quality measures and financial performance work together
- Describe how the Guided Care health model operates in practice
- Analyze the critical infrastructure factors for ACO success – health IT, care management, community workers, etc.
- Define the continuum of care from a provision of services perspective of an ACO
- Discuss real-life lessons learned from current roll-outs of ACO-type organizations
Audio CDs
Diplomates $230 - Professional Members $270 - Non-Members $330
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"Transformation of Health Care from Patients to Populations"
34th Annual Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Conference
Please note: ABQAURP is going paperless! This home study syllabus is available on CD-Rom for you to view or print from your computer and will be shipped with the audio CDs. (If you wish to purchase a printed book, a $25 printing fee will be added to your order.) Please see order form for details.
The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ABQAURP designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABQAURP is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing to provide continuing education for nurses. ABQAURP designates this activity for 8 contact hours through the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94. This activity is valid from December 1, 2011 through December 31, 2013.
As health care evolves, we move closer to instituting elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, questions and concerns are abounding. The health care system is moving towards a team-approach to health care; ensuring the quality, appropriateness, and cost while improving overall care to patients.
We, as providers, employers, and especially as patients, are looking for reassurance (throughout the entire health care continuum) in continued and renewed dedication to improved care, through coordination and communication.
Can we bridge the link between cost and quality? Are we all prepared to be engaged in accountable, coordinated, responsible care? Take part in this home study to discover new perspective and determine where you are positioned in the transformation.
ABQAURP has assembled an extraordinary team of presenters to assess the current health care quality and safety landscape, and to offer practical solutions.
This program will cover the following objectives:
- Recognize how transitions of care improves the quality of care provided
- Define Guided Care and how it works to improve patient outcomes
- Discuss Texas initiatives to determine how collaboration between physicians and hospitals improves quality of care
- Evaluate clinical safety risks PPACA has created and how to overcome these
- Determine how coordination between palliative care and patient care enhances both acute medical needs and longitudinal care needs
- Describe how cost and quality translate to patient care in the hospital setting
- Explain the legal issues that have arisen from new initiatives and how to combat them
Diplomates $230 - Professional Members $270 - Non-Members $330
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"Value, Quality, Safety, and Integrity: The Essential Elements of Accountability"
33rd Annual Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Conference
Please note: ABQAURP is going paperless! This home study syllabus is available on CD-Rom for you to view or print from your computer and will be shipped with the audio CDs. (If you wish to purchase a printed book, a $25 printing fee will be added to your order.) Please see order form for details.
The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ABQAURP designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABQAURP is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing to provide continuing education for nurses. ABQAURP designates this activity for 8 contact hours through the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94. This activity is valid from April 25, 2011 through December 31, 2013.
America is facing a challenge. How can we improve care for all patients at a reasonable cost? Will aligning payment and measurement incentives improve patient safety and quality? What are the elements that are needed to ensure compliance, efficiency, and accountability in health care? What are the practical steps that payers, providers, and purchasers need to take now?
ABQAURP has assembled an extraordinary team of presenters to assess the current health care quality and safety landscape, and to offer practical solutions.
This program will cover the following objectives:
- Understand how evidence-based principles are essential to the management of chronic pain treatment throughout the health care continuum
- Evaluate the impact of program integrity on procedures, technologies, and pharmaceuticals
- Appraise how accountable care organizations and global payment systems may support improved coordination and management of patient care
- Identify the challenges of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems
- Discuss how organizations have utilized coordination of care to promote health system change
- Recognize the value of interoperability in connecting health care across providers
- Describe how Unique Device Identification (UDI) initiatives support patient safety outcomes
- Explain to your health care system how compliance initiatives support patient safety and quality of care
- Define Meaningful Use in electronic health information systems and how it can improve patient health care behaviors
Diplomates $230 - Professional Members $270 - Non-Members $330
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