Register Now: February 20 Webinar Will Cover Using Health IT To Improve Coordination for Patients With Complex Care Needs

AHRQ is hosting a Webinar February 20 from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET on how health IT can improve outcomes for patients with multiple chronic conditions seen across a variety of settings. The projects presented will discuss care coordination, medication management systems, and ways to facilitate information availability during care transitions.

Presenters:

• Elizabeth Ciemins, Ph.D., research director, Billings Clinic Foundation, Billings, MT
• Penny Feldman, Ph.D., senior vice president for Research and Evaluation, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
• Eric Eisenstein, D.B.A, associate professor in medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
• Moderator: Vera Rosenthal, M.P.H., program manager, AHRQ

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Event Information: Using Health IT To Improve Care Coordination and Outcomes in Patients With Complex Health Care Needs

Registration is required to join this event. If you have not registered, please do so now. Event status: Not started (Register) Date and time: Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:30 pm Eastern Standard Time (Indiana, GMT-05:00) Change time zone Panelist(s) Info: Elizabeth Ciemins, Ph.D., M.P.H., Research Director, Billings Clinic Foundation Penny Feldman, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Research and Evaluation, Visiting Nurse Service of New York Eric Eisenstein, D.B.A, Associate Professor in Medicine, Duke University Moderator Vera Rosenthal, M.P.H., Program Manager, Health IT Program, AHRQ Duration: 1 hour Description: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has identified a gap in health care and public health practitioners’ knowledge of health IT using multiple mechanisms, including the findings of the continuing education (CE) planning group. This series of Webinars is designed to increase practitioners’ ability to improve health care decisionmaking, support patient-centered care, and improve the quality and safety of care through the use of health IT. A major component of providing safer and better quality care is to discover new ways to improve the ability for providers to better support individuals with complex health care needs. This presentation outlines the findings from recent research that advances knowledge about how health IT can impact outcomes for patients with multiple chronic conditions seen across a variety of settings. Included will be a review of the following: (1) coordination of care outcomes for patients with two or more chronic conditions who were discharged from a hospital to a rural primary care clinic; (2) the development of a medication management system to improve clinician practice and enhance patient engagement by identifying patients with complex medication regimens; and (3) facilitating the availability of information following care transitions including hospital and emergency department discharge and specialty care referrals into ambulatory care.