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Insurance in a Dynamic Market Place

Healthcare represents almost 1/5 of the US economy. Surprisingly it is not the clinician or the patient who is in the driver's seat of this massive enterprise--nothing happens in the US healthcare system...

Cyber Security in Medical Devices

Twenty-five million Americans rely on implantable medical devices, including pacemakers, defibrillators, insulin pumps, and deep brain stimulators for important, life-sustaining functions. As remote monitoring...

Losing Texas Mothers: Maternal Mortality in the Lone Star State

This presentation will provide an overview of the leading causes and trends in maternal morbidity and mortality in Texas. Key definitions of terms will be discussed as well as leading causes of maternal death...

Differences in Sexual Differentiation

The birth of a child with ambiguous genitalia poses multiple dilemma for healthcare providers and parents. This presentation will describe the difference among differences of sexual differentiation (DSD) and...

MACRA Rules are Final: Time to implement the Quality Payment Program

For years we have been under a flawed Sustained Growth Rate (SGR) payment system that was replaced in 2015 with a new law, the Medicare and CHIPS Reauthorization Act (MACRA). This law has major mandated...

Health Literacy

Healthy People 2010 defines health literacy as “The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health...

Elder Abuse - Prevention, Detection, Diagnosis, and Care

The fastest growing segment of our population is the 'old-old' or people over 85.  The majority of these people have chronic conditions and about half of them have dementing illness.  A large number...

Impact of Abnormal Swallowing Patterns in the Elderly

A Bedside Swallow Evaluation (BSE) has definite limitations and aspiration cannot be confirmed or ruled out without Modified Barium Swallow Study (MBSS) (Swigert,1998). Approximately 40% of the patients who...

Iron Deficiency- New Evidence and Approaches

Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is the most common cause of anemia in humans.  In spite of the frequency with which it is encountered in clinical practice, patients are often faced with clinicians who are...

Beyond BMI - Are Weight Loss Programs the Best Way to Improve the Health of African American Women?

Maintaining a healthy weight is often cited as one of the most important factors in preventing chronic disease.  Current research reveals that prevention of chronic disease is a complex issue and the...

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment in Primary Care

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment is a safe, effective, and low-cost modality to address many common problems in primary care. However, many practicing osteopathic physicians tend to underutilize this unique...

The DICE Approach

Hypertension in Older Adults - From SHEP to SPRINT

Educating Patients on Appropriate Inhaler Use

Participants will have the opportunity to learn about and use demonstration devices of newer asthma and COPD inhaler devices in ‘skills lab-type’ atmosphere. Educational techniques to teach...

Sports Medicine Ethics - A Dedication to Self Morals vs Taking One for the Team

Physicians are trained to assess, evaluate, prevent, treat and heal. As we graduate from medical school we recite the Hippocratic Oath subjecting ourselves to the premise of “Do No Harm”. From our...

Beyond the Cure...Post Cancer Management for the PCP

Patients are responding well to cancer therapies with more patients being cured with treatment. As patients continue to do well it is important for primary care doctors to understand particular nuances of...

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Statistics is a powerful tool that allow us to describe what was observed and to infer conclusions about a larger population. Statistics are used in almost all fields of research and practice to provide...

Understanding Dementia and the Role of the Healthcare Professional

Dementia can be caused by nearly forty different diseases and conditions. Currently there are four clinical dementia syndromes accounting for 90% of all cases of progressive cognitive impairment. The four...

Unlocking Stroke Prevention in Patients with Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation

Join a nationally acclaimed cardiologist, Dr. Paul Bhella, as he leads a panel discussion that seeks to unlock the complexities of stroke prevention...

Screening for Colon Cancer: What's New

Presentation Summary

Screening helps identify cancer or pre-cancer in patients who have no symptoms of the disease. Colorectal cancer screening is one of the most effective tools used to...

Hepatitis C

In the United States about 3.5 million people have HCV. According to the CDC, around one half of those do not know they are infected(1). This presentation will discuss important developments and strategies in...

Biomechanical Medicine Clinic - Innovations in Prosthetics and Rehab

Due to trauma or disease process, approximately 1.7 million Americans have lost a limb. For many of these persons, a prosthesis can significantly improve quality of life. This presentation will explore the...

Do Medications for Alzheimer's Disease Really Work?

Several prescription drugs are currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Treating the symptoms of Alzheimer's can...

Chronic Nonmalignant Pain

Numerous studies and reports document the urgent need to improve care for patients with chronic pain. The needs of all health care clinicians to better understand the assessment and management of chronic pain...

Interprofessional Clinical Management: Diabetes

9.3% of the US population has been estimated to have diabetes, with approximately 28% of those individuals being undiagnosed. The rate of diabetes prevalence has increased at an alarming rate over the...

A SIMPLE STEP: Medication Nonadherence

According to recent reports, medication nonadherence - also referred to as MNA – impacts approximately 187 million patients in the United States, or 25% of the entire U.S. population. Medication...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

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...

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...