Online Activities

Progress in Alzheimer's Diagnosis and Treatment

This program was developed to provide the audience with an overview of the progress in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.  Healthcare providers who do not typically work with or diagnosis...

The Illusion of Opioids

Literature has shown that prescribers receive little education on the treatment of pain resulting in less effective pain treatment with worse outcomes. Attendees will learn the evidence-based analysis of the...

Multifactorial Risk Assessments and Evidence-based Intervention to Address Falls in Primary Care

20% of all falls cause broken bones, head injuries or other serious injuries and over 700,000 people a year are hospitalized for fall related injuries. (1) This activity will discuss how to identify those at...

Why do They Have Good Days and Bad Days - Factors Influencing Fluctuations in Cognition and Behavior in Alzheimer's Disease

How does the caregiver account for why the person with disease changes from day to day and minute to minute?  This presentation will provide information on the physiological and sensory changes that occur...

Cognitive Assessment during the Annual Wellness Visit

This presentation will cover how easily a cognitive assessment can be performed during the Medicare Annual Wellness visit.  Visit the algorithm on the Alzheimer's Association website -

What Does Research say about Reducing Your Risk of Alzheimer's?

Can you reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease? If so, how? Can we use the word "prevention" when talking about a disease that we still don’t know the cause? What about lifestyle changes?...

Medication Reconciliation: Readmissions & Reimbursement

As much as hald adverse drug events after discharge are results of a system error and a discrepancy on discharge increases the rate of readmission from 6% to 14%.  For this reason, intrdocuing medication...

Differentiating Dementia

Recognizing dementia can be challenging for healthcare providers. Even more so is differentiating the different types of dementia in order to guide management of course of therapy. Improving the diagnosis of...

STAR Kids – A comprehensive Managed Care Program for Pediatrics Patients with Chronic, Complex Health Conditions

Presentation Summary

Multiple stakeholder groups have advocated for a managed care solution for providing coordinated, quality care for children with disabilities over 3 prior legislative cycles (6...

Advance Care Planning and Texas Directives: More than Document Completion

This presentation will review the importance of advance healthcare planning and of the discussions needed prior to completing directives. It will also include a brief overview of the main documents currently...

Medication Reconciliation: An Introductory Activity

Medication errors (ME) are the most common type of health-system error, contributing to thousands and thousands of deaths annually. In the 1999 publication To Err is Human by the Institute of Medicine, it was...

Team Approach to Hypertension

Lessons Learned with Metrics

To measure improvement, practices must begin tracking metrics.  This eLearning activity will explore the types of metrics health care practices can collect to measure patient satisfaction, quality...

Beyond the Device: Comprehensive Care of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Patients

The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) has emerged from clinical trials as “the treatment of choice” vs. medications alone for potentially lethal ventricular arrhythmias. However, cardiac...

COPD - A New Look at an Old Disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is responsible for one death every four minutes in the United States and is now the third leading cause of death. Even though COPD is common and usually progressive...

Measuring Inpatient Harm

In 2003 the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed a tool to monitor adverse event rates in hospitals in an effort to improve patient safety. The trigger tool uses clues to identify adverse...

Managing Comorbidities with COPD

For the patient with COPD, it is seldom the only illness diagnosed. The existence of co-morbid conditions and the severity of COPD symptoms greatly the impact the mortality and quality of life for the COPD...

Transitions of Care for Patients with COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is responsible for one death every four minutes in the United States and is now the third leading cause of death. COPD is also responsible for a significant number...

Reducing the Risk of Stroke in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation

Non-valvular atrial fibrillation is a condition experienced by millions of Americans which puts them at risk for potential for the formation of blood clots in the heart that can cause a cerebrovascular...

Osteoporosis Update

One out of 3 women and one out of 5 men will suffer an OP fracture in their lifetime.  It is important in our aging population to know who to screen and how to evaluate and treat a patient for...

Different Loving - A Psychiatric Clinician's Guide to Creating Therapeutic Treatment Alliances with BDSM Practitioners

In their article “Sexual Medicine Education: Review and Commentary” in J Sex Med. 2007, 4: 259-268, Parish and Clayton state “There remain significant physician–patient barriers to...

Multiple Sclerosis Leadership Summit

The field of multiple sclerosis treatment is rapidly evolving through important advances in clinical investigation and emerging scientific discoveries. Leading experts from MS research and comprehensive care...