Upcoming Conferences and Events
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February 1, 2012—1 to 2:30pm (Central)
AAP Webinar—Storytelling as Best Practice
The National Healthy Tomorrows Technical Assistance Resource Center is hosting a free webinar featuring nationally-recognized speaker, Andy Goodman. He will explain why he believes storytelling is the single most powerful communication tool you possess and will offer specific ways that your organization can use stories to advance your mission.
February 7, 2012—7 to 8:30pm (Eastern)
Webinar—Creating a Patient and Family Advisory Board
(Available for a fee at registration)
This webinar hosted by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care will discuss how to create a patient and family advisory council for your hospital or health care organization. Discussions are geared for those planning to create a council or for councils that were established a year ago.
February 9, 2012—12 to 1pm (Central)
AAP Pediatric Coding Webinar—ICS-10-CM Transition: It’s Not Just a Myth… It’s Coming!
(Available for a fee at registration)
This webinar will educate on the new code structure and how it differs from ICD-9-CM, discuss guideline changes from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM, discuss some common pediatric codes in which increased documentation of the disease and disease process will be required, and crosswalk many common pediatric diagnoses from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM.
February 9, 2012—4 to 5:30pm (Eastern)
Webinar—Enhancing the Collaborative Process
(Available for a fee at registration)
This webinar hosted by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care will focus on the how-to’s of the collaborative process: strategies on how to prepare patient and family advisors, as well as staff, to be effective collaborators and to move from sharing perspectives to action and implementation.
February 11-14, 2012—Washington, DC
Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) 2012 Annual Conference
The AMCHP 2012 Annual Conference will boast a theme of Improving Maternal and Child Health Across the Life Span: Acting Today for Healthy Tomorrows.
February 16, 2012—4 to 5:30pm (Eastern)
Webinar—Developing Patient- and Family-Centered Support Programs
(Available for a fee at registration)
This webinar hosted by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care will discuss how peer support has been proven to be an effective means of helping patients, parents, and families cope with challenging situations and in becoming their own best advocates. It will highlight how to design a successful peer support program with those you serve.
February 21, 2012—1 to 2:30pm (Eastern)
Webinar—Implementing a Patient and Family Faculty Program to Strengthen a Patient- and Family-Centered Culture
(Available for a fee at registration)
This webinar hosted by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care will discuss how to recruit and train patient and family faculty to use their personal stories as valued teachable moments as well as how to evaluate a patient and family faculty program.
February 27-29, 2012—Philadelphia, PA
National Medical Home Summit
The 4th National Medical Home Summit will bring together leaders and practitioners in the medical home field to discuss how the concept is working, where it has proven outcomes, what lessons have been learned, where it needs improvement, and what issues and challenges lie ahead. The Summit preconference will focus on the pediatric medical home. AAP members enjoy significantly reduced registration rates with the discount code "AAP" at http://medicalhomesummit.com//registration.php.
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March 5-6, 2012—St Louis, MO
11th Annual Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Conference
The 2012 Annual National EHDI Conference will provide an opportunity to identify areas of concern, promote collaboration, and share best practices to improve early hearing screening, diagnosis, and intervention systems for infants/young children and their families.
March 18-20, 2012—Washington, DC
13th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice & the Community
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) will be hosting this summit the theme of "rediscovering conversations." Key topic areas addressed through the summit include: patient- and family-centered care, health information technology, coordinating care across the care continuum, new models of primary care, and accountable care organizations (ACOs).
March 19-22, 2012—Atlanta, GA
Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward with Patient- and Family-Centered Care Seminar—Partnerships for
Quality and Safety
This seminar provides comprehensive and practical sessions designed to provide participants the knowledge and
skills to become more effective change agents for patient- and family-centered care in their health care organizations. Participants will learn patient- and family-centered strategies for safe, quality care and how to guide their organization to create partnerships with patients and families on every level. The seminar offers programming for health care administrators, physicians, nurses, and other clinicians, and patient and family leaders in adult and pediatric inpatient care; primary care, medical home, and
other ambulatory care; maternity care; newborn intensive care; mental health care; and emergency care.
March 28-30, 2012—San Antonio, TX
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Annual Conference
The NAPNAP 33rd Annual Conference on Pediatric Health Care will carry the theme New Frontiers in Child Health. The conference will highlight topics such as immunization updates from the CDC and a childhood obesity pre-conference. Two concurrent sessions of interest include: Innovations in Implementing a Pediatric Health Care Home and Advance Care Coordination for Children with Special Health Care Needs.
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April 4-5, 2012—Washington, DC
National Quality Forum Annual Conference—Building a Patient- and Family-Centered Health System
The National Quality Forum (NQF) annual conference seeks to highlight new knowledge and innovations, foster discussion to understand different perspectives and harmonize these into common purpose, and facilitate the creation of an agenda that can help to move the healthcare improvement field forward. The conference will address the impact of policy, health information technology, and emerging measurement strategies on how patients can be further engaged to ensure they are at the center of healthcare.
April 10-11, 2012—Washington, DC
2012 National Health Promotion Summit
The 2012 National Health Promotion Summit, hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), aims to promote the development of disease prevention and health promotion polices that align with national prevention initiatives, encourage stakeholders at every level to collaborate on reaching national health goals, and integrate health policies across all sectors.
April 17, 2011—Denver, CO
35th National Rural Health Association Annual Rural Health Conference
The Annual Rural Health Conference is the nation's largest rural health conference, created for all of those with an interest in rural health care, including rural health practitioners, hospital administrators, clinic directors and lay health workers, social workers, state and federal health employees, academics, community members and more.
April 19, 2012—12 to 1pm (Central)
AAP Pediatric Coding Webinar—Newborn and Neonatal Coding Issues
(Available for a fee at registration)
By attending this webinar, you will understand how to code for prenatal services in inpatient and outpatient settings, better identify those newborns and neonates who require critical or intensive care services, code more efficiently for services provided to newborns and neonates, and understand Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) guidelines related to newborn and neonatal coding.
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May 7-8, 2012—Washington, DC
Advancing the Methods for Healthcare Quality Improvement Research
This two day event, hosted by the Academy for Healthcare Improvement, will include presentations from the experts in the quality improvement research field. The program will include presentations, panel discussions, case studies, abstract presentations, and posters.
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June 4, 2012—Washington, DC
The 5th International Conference on Patient- and Family-Centered Care
This conference, hosted by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care, will provide opportunities to address emerging issues in patient- and family-centered care, both at the systems and individual levels. It will include presentations from hospitals, primary care, specialty ambulatory settings, community-based programs, public health and mental health agencies, patient- and family-led organizations, schools of medicine, nursing, and other health and helping professions. The conference will also showcase videos developed by health care organizations to support partnerships with patients and families and will feature a variety of formal and informal meetings, including plenary sessions, concurrent/topical breakout sessions, networking discussions, video theatre, and poster presentations.
June 7, 2012—12 to 1pm (Central)
AAP Pediatric Coding Webinar—Evaluation and Management Documentation Guidelines and Pitfalls of Electronic Medical Records
(Available for a fee at registration)
By attending this webinar, you will
- Learn the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services E/M guidelines (1995 and 1997) and understand the differences and which to use in your practice.
- Learn the requirements to obtain specific code levels (eg, 99212 or 99213).
- Learn the 3 key components and understand the role played by each.
- Review common pediatric presenting problems (eg, asthma) and how different scenarios related to the problem are coded on the spectrum (eg, 99212 versus 99213 versus 99214).
- Understand the importance of medical necessity and how it affects E/M coding.
- Understand time-based E/M coding.
- Understand the pitfalls of electronic medical record use in coding E/M service levels.
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October 20-23, 2012—New Orleans, LA
2012 AAP National Conference & Exhibition (NCE)
The AAP NCE is the most comprehensive pediatric meeting in the world and represents the full spectrum of pediatric medical professionals and decision-makers, including pediatricians in general practice and subspecialties, young physicians, pediatric residents, and allied health professionals. Participation at this meeting offers opportunities to be present among other leaders in the health care industry.
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