Optimal Care—combining Evidence and Technology to Drive Quality and Eliminate Low-value Care Course
Optimal Care—combining Evidence and Technology to Drive Quality and Eliminate Low-value Care Course is organized by OptumHealth Education (OHE).
Activity opens: 04/21/2021
Activity expires: 04/21/2024
Target Audience:
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians, psychologists, social workers and other HCPs who have an interest in the issue of wasted and harmful care.
Description:
Wasted and harmful care is highly prevalent in the US health system, accounting for suboptimal patient outcomes and up to one-third of all health care expenditures. Although this critical issue is widely discussed, solutions to the problem are infrequently implemented. Physician-led organizations are uniquely positioned to solve this problem. This activity will provide learners with successful approaches to address the issues of wasted and harmful care in order to decrease unnecessary expenditures and improve patient outcomes. The discussion will focus on the following solutions to wasted and harmful care:
• The rapid translation of evidenced-based medicine (EBM) into clinical practice
• Technological solutions to algorithm deployment, shared decision-making and patient-reported outcomes
• The use of high-quality data to help choose the optimal provider and site of service
Learning Objectives:
• Define actions and practices that constitute wasted and harmful care, as well as modalities that can replace these care routines
• Describe how to rapidly translate high-quality EBM into daily practice
• Recognize how to leverage technology to utilize clinical algorithms, shared decision-making and patient-reported outcomes to drive care decisions
• Identify the role of pharmaco-economics in pharmaceutical prescribin
• Define how the use of analytics to measure HCP utilization of EBM and overall cost efficiency drives improved care quality and cost outcomes