Regional Seminars: Medical Director
Learn how today’s healthcare industry leaders are applying evidence-based medicine to increase patient safety, improve organizational efficiency, and provide better quality care.
This course provides an opportunity for medical directors, physician reviewers, and patient-care physicians to examine the role of evidence-based guidelines in improving the quality of care. The role of evidence-based, best practice guidelines in quality initiatives, safety improvement, and benefit decisions, and the impact of research on care decisions and ways to implement the changes based on evidence will be discussed. Models for communicating about quality and safety between reviewers, providers, and payers will be presented.
Objectives
- Evidence in Action: Guideline-based Care Management
- Understand application of current best medical evidence to care management decisions
- Understand the importance of proactive care planning versus reactive use of criteria
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of medical evidence
- Review of Milliman Care Guidelines® Structure and Content
- To provide attendees a basic understanding of the Care Guidelines
- To provide attendees a basic understanding of how the Care Guidelines will support daily operations of the care management functions of both hospitals and health plans
- Role of Physician Leader in Guideline Implementation
- Understanding how evidence based guidelines can improve patient care safety and quality
- Understand techniques to engage the provider community in the implementation and use of guidelines
- Understand how guidelines can facilitate communication between health plans and providers and also provider to provider communication
- Practical Approaches to Conflict Resolution
- Understand sources of conflict in care management settings
- Understand ways to deal constructively with conflict in care management settings
- Understand ways to utilize care management guidelines to manage conflict in care management settings
- Scenarios and Role Playing: Practice, Practice, Practice
- Understand common preauthorization scenarios that are presented to medical directors
- Understand common hospital care management scenarios that are presented to medical directors
- Practice utilizing guidelines and conflict resolution skills in dealing with healthcare providers
Schedule
Dallas, TX September 10 – 11, 2008
Fee
$750
Seminar Locations & Accommodations
Please contact hotel directly for reservations and specify your
registration is for the Milliman Care Guidelines Training Seminar.
Seminars are held at the hotel.
Please note: Accommodations are not included in the registration fee.
Be sure to reserve a room early to enjoy the convenience of staying at
the seminar hotel.
June 5 – 6, 2008
The Roosevelt Hotel
Madison Avenue at 45th Street
New York, NY 10017
For reservations call +1 888 833.3969 and request a reservation as part of the Milliman Care Guidelines room block. If you need to cancel your room reservation, you must do so by 4 p.m. the day prior to your arrival or you will be billed for one night's room rate.
September 10 – 11, 2008
Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas
4150 North MacArthur Boulevard
Irving, TX 75038
For reservations call +1 972 717.0700 and request a reservation as part of the Milliman Care Guidelines room block. If you need to cancel your room reservation, you must do so by 6 p.m. the day prior to your arrival or you will be billed for one night's room rate and tax.
Agenda
| Day 1 | |
| Time | Topic |
| 6:00 p.m. | Welcome and Introductions |
| 6:15 p.m. | Evidence in Action: Guideline-based Care Management |
| 7:00 p.m. | Dinner and Roundtable Discussion |
| 7:30 p.m. | Review of Care Guidelines Structure and Content |
| 8:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
| Day 2 | |
| Time | Topic |
| 8:00 a.m. | Review of Care Guidelines Structure and Content (cont.) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Role of Physician Leader in Guideline Implementation |
| 9:45 a.m. | Practical Approaches to Conflict Resolution in Care Management |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Scenarios and Role Playing: Practice, Practice, Practice (includes a working lunch at 12:00 p.m.) |
| 1:45 p.m. | Wrap-up |
| 2:00 p.m. | Adjourn |