HOME STUDY COURSES

ABQAURP’s Home Study

CE Courses

 are an alternate pathway for Diplomates to maintain their active status with the Board.

These

courses

 contain the audio version of ABQAURP’s most recent and well received on-site seminars. It includes CD's or CD-ROMs, 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 date. Scoring results must be 70% or above to maintain your board certification.

This interactive learning tool combines audio, video and presentation slides to reinforce the content being discussed. The content is self-contained on the CD-Rom which means no downloading and waiting on your Internet connection like traditional "online" courses.

Each section of each presentation may be chosen from a main menu, which makes finding a specific topic or returning to a point where you left off easy and convenient. This function allows you to complete the course's study on your time. You can choose to leave and, then later, pick up your experience from where you left off by choosing one of the many outlined sections. Future reference of any of these sections is equally convenient.

As the proliferation of computer use continues, we plan to offer more of these courses in this format to allow maximum flexibility. We are confident that you will find this an invaluable and convenient tool for your certification needs.

The following home study

CE courses

 are now available:

"Peer Review: The Fundamental Background of Quality Management"
32nd 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 you 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.

ABQAURP designates this educational activity 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 February 1, 2010 through December 31, 2012.

In the radical transition of the health care climate, will enhanced knowledge of Quality Management and Peer Review lead to smooth sailing or rough seas? Navigate your way through the value and accountability requirements of tumultuous health care systems.

What do hospitals need? What do purchasers want? What does the government expect? How can providers take ownership?

Health care is changing. There is a need for Quality Management to ensure people are getting appropriate care. There is a need for unbiased, impartial opinions. Oversight is needed to ensure care is not being denied only for cost reasons. But who is watching the watchers? How do you ensure the protection of the public, the purchasers, the payors, AND the providers?

This program will cover the following objectives:

• Apply peer review in the hospital setting to ensure patient safety & appropriate care
• Discuss the legal foundation of peer review and the effect of HIPAA and EMRs
• Look at drug abuse and the impact pill mills have on care
• Define peer review and quality improvement in this era of health reform
• Evaluate peer review and the effect of consumer ranking
• Assess how small practices can compete
• Evaluate a peer review and determine how to apply findings

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"Patient Safety: A Shared Responsibility With Defined Roles"
31st Annual Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Conference
(Available on Audio CDs only)

Please note: ABQAURP is going paperless! This home study syllabus is available on CD-Rom for you to view or print from you 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.

ABQAURP designates this educational activity 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 November 1, 2009 through December 31, 2011.

This program will cover the following objectives:

• Discuss the results of ABQAURP Survey of Quality Health Care Professionals.
• How can members identify the tools to help them be successful with this rapidly changing process?
• How can members prepare for external requests for transparency in reporting quality of care?
• What are the initiatives regarding value and accountability?
• How can members implement systems in their practice settings to enable reporting of quality metrics?
• How can physician payment be structured to address quality initiatives?
• Identify the methods for notifying physicians, hospitals, and providers about product and drug recalls.
• Discuss the financial, legal and social responsibility of providers, manufacturers, and insurers to remove defective devices from patients.
• Address the consumer need for ‘protection’ when new devices and drugs come to the marketplace.
• Discuss how social and clinical needs differ amongst different generations that currently and will be using the health care system, and identify specific communication strategies.
• Identify how personalized medicine will affect patient care and selection of treatments.
• Discuss the provider and insurer obligations under the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act.
• Understand the rationale behind non-payment for ‘never events’, and why certain events are avoidable – or not.
• Address how IT can be used to provide access to patient records across multiple provider systems and geographic locales.
• Learn how convenience care clinics can provide ongoing care of chronic conditions and address preventive and screening initiatives.
• Understand the coordination of benefi ts between workers’ compensation and traditional health insurance.
• Address the goals of workers’ compensation programs.
• Review the legal obligations of workers’ compensation programs.

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"Reducing Risk and Improving Quality: What a Concept!"
30th Annual Health Care Quality & 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 you 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. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ABQAURP takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. designates this educational activity 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.

The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing to provide continuing education for nurses. This activity has been approved for 9.6 contact hours by the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94. This activity is valid from July 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010.

This program will cover :

• Identify the goals of the advanced medical home initiative and the need to consider different care models for managing patients with multiple conditions.
• Implement tools to improve and optimize communication between clinicians for the patient’s well being.
• Establish how multiple stakeholders can develop tools to improve care coordination.
• Define cost breakdown specific to interventions to control health care costs.
• Recognize solutions for increasing health care costs driven by pharmaceutical and medical device expenditures.
• Consider how health information networks can optimize the delivery of care and access to health care records when and where needed.
• Convert medical and pharmaceutical data into tools that can be used to improve costs, utilization, and quality of care.
• Implement a quality reporting program.
• Appraise how implementing benchmarking processes will improve practice performance and patient safety measures.
• Apply principles of predictive modeling to improve patient outcomes and optimize care.
• Assess and employ techniques and tools to improve health care quality while protecting patient safety.

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"3nd Annual Medical Management System Innovations Conference"
(Available on Audio CDs only)

Whether a hospital, health plan, physician group, independent physician, or nurse, can the ability to optimize patient care be quantified? As patients move through the continuum of care, what outcomes should be measured? What will be the impact of information technology on medical management? How can platforms be developed to support more advanced, decision-making techniques and mobilize the resources necessary to support a complex, care management program? Get the answers to these questions, with valuable information to utilize in your work environment.

Innovation and change are now the "constant" in medical management. What worked yesterday might not be what the market is demanding today or will need tomorrow. ABQAURP's 3rd Annual ABQAURP Medical Management System Innovations Conference provides a crucial update on the rapid transformations in medical and care management. This course is designed for anyone who performs, coordinates, supports, uses, purchases, or otherwise is interested in the next generation of medical management tools and techniques.

Please note: ABQAURP is going paperless! This home study syllabus is available on CD-Rom for you to view or print from you 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.

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 9.6 contact hours through the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94. This activity is valid from November 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010.

This program will cover the following objectives:

• Identify recent innovations and trends in medical management
• Visualize how global health care initiatives influence purchaser decisions
• Recognize patient and provider engagement strategies to improve clinical outcomes
• Discuss how to integrate case management into day-to-day care
• Explore legal and ethical challenges of genetic medicine
• Discuss and display financial topics/issues in personalized medicine testing and tailored health care

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"Enhancing Quality Performance Measurement:
A New Paradigm for Health Care Accountability Has Arrived"
(Available on Audio CDs only)

The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc., (ABQAURP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Please note: ABQAURP is going paperless! This home study syllabus is available on CD-Rom for you to view or print from you 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.

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 9.6 contact hours through the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94. This activity is valid from September 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010.

This program will cover :

• Demonstrate specific changes in transparency and accountability requirements
• Show how reimbursement and reputation are linked to these changes
• Prepare attendees to adapt to “Information Age” environment
• How do we compare and contrast different solutions without solid “proof” of effectiveness?
• How do we judge different offerings (e.g. DM, P4P, medical home) when they all state they are targeting the same chronic disease outcomes?
• If we can’t build perfect evidence (such as double-blind, multi-centered randomized clinical trials), when is it “good enough?”
• What does the MEP process mean and how does it help?
• Provide background about health care accreditation traditions and how the MEP Accreditation Program is emerging
• Provide information why claims for fi nancial and clinical outcomes should be verifi ed by an independent third party
• Highlight how an evidence-based and transparent assessment process can improve and enhance health management programs
• What does value-based purchasing really mean and does it improve accountability?
• What types of medical management (including DM and CM) and fi nancial initiatives can make a difference?
• What do purchasers expect from benefi t management?
• Provide an overview of consumerism in US health care
• Address the need for transparency in health care
• Explain why transparency of methods is important to patients, providers, purchasers, and payors
• What does accountability mean in today’s health care arena?
• Does the availability of evidence and guidelines actually improve performance? How do we document success stories?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current outcomes movement?
• Can we make “guarantees” about health care performance?
• What does accountability mean in today’s health care arena?
• Does the availability of evidence and guidelines actually improve performance? How do we document success stories?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current outcomes movement?
• Can we make “guarantees” about health care performance?
• Present an overview of the Healthcare Unbound technologies and markets
• Summarize opportunities around a few of the most promising technologies, e.g., PHRs/EHRs, remote patient monitoring, mobile/cell phone technologies, etc.
• Frame major issues, including areas for research and measurement of clinical and fi nancial ROI
• Discuss implications for major players: health plans, care providers, researchers, DM companies, technology vendors, others
• How much should patients and physicians be held accountable?
• Does “following the evidence” provide protection?
• What are the new models for integrating services to improve patient care?
• How much should patients and physicians be held accountable?
• Does “following the evidence” provide protection?
• What are the new models for integrating services to improve patient care?

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