TIP OF THE WEEK
Best Practice Intervention Package - Disease Management
The 11th Best Practice Intervention Package (BPIP) has been released from the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign. January’s topic is disease management. Below are direct links to the tools and resources included in the BPIP.
Leadership Track (PDF)
Nurse Track: Polish Your Practice: Heart Failure (PDF)
Nurse Track: Polish Your Practice: COPD (PDF)
Therapist Track (PDF)
Medical Social Worker (PDF)
Home Health Aide (PDF)
Examples of Excellence (PDF)
Fast Track (PDF)
Full Contents: BPIP - Disease Management (PDF)
Due to the BPIP's file size, you may want to right-click on the link and select "Save Target As..." to save a copy to your hard drive.
ASSOCIATED RESOURCES
Business Case for Disease Management Programs in Home Care (PDF)
Decision Support Heart Failure Tool (PDF)
Decision Support COPD Tool (PDF)
Monthly BPIP Poster (PDF)
Electronic Test (Word)
Home Telehealth Disease Management Series
The Home Telehealth Disease Management Series provides clinicians with a package of tools to improve the management of heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cancer, and diabetes through the incorporation of telehealth technology. Each disease topic includes Patient Selection Criteria, Decision Support Tools, Patient Encounter Documentation Tools, Patient Self-Care Workbooks and Staff Education Guides. These tools may be easily adapted for the non-telehealth patient population as well. They are located on www.medqic.org.
PODCASTS/AUDIO RECORDINGS
Right click on the audio file link below to select "Save Target As..." This will allow you to save the audio recording to your hard drive. You may then listen to the podcast from your computer or burn it to a CD.
Disease Management and Reducing Acute Care Hospitalization (MP3 - 3.0 MB)
Disease Management for Home Health Aides (MP3 - 3.7 MB)
EDUCATIONAL WEBEXES
Please read the instructions for downloading the WebEx software. Even if you have previously installed WebEx, you will need to download the software. Once you have installed the software, right-click on the WebEx file link below to select "Save Target As..." This will allow you to save the WebEx recording to your hard drive. You may then view the WebEx.
INTRODUCTION TO THE BEST PRACTICE INTERVENTION PACKAGE - DISEASE MANAGEMENT
The Disease Management WebEx provides a quick overview of this Best Practice Intervention Package (BPIP). The presentation introduces clinician education resources and many national key tools are highlighted. The WebEx provides a general overview for leadership and/or clinicians to learn more about BPIPs, specifically Disease Management.
Download the WebEx (WRF)
Download the Handouts from the WebEx (PDF)
Download the PowerPoint presentation of the WebEx (PPT)
Disease Management WebEx Files
The following WebEx files are associated with the individual discipline tracks located within the BPIP above.
Disease Management and Home Care: Introduction
Disease Management and Home Care: Heart Failure
Disease Management and Home Care: COPD
Managing the Patient with Dyspnea
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Free 2.0 CNE contact hours are available for Registered Nurses and a Certificate of Participation for LPNs/LVNs for completing the Nursing Track of this Best Practice Intervention Package: Disease Management. An online evaluation/post-test is required after completing the Nursing Track. Registered Nurses and LPNs/LVNs click here.
Therapists (PT, OT, ST, PTA & COTA) may apply for a certificate of participation - 1.4 continuing education hours. An online evaluation/post-test is required after completing the Therapy Track. PTs, OTs, STs, PTAs, & COTAs follow this link.
Continuing Education Provider Information for Disease Management - Therapy (PDF)
Continuing Education Provider Information for Disease Management - LPN/LVN (PDF)
VOLUNTARY SURVEY
Participate in the voluntary survey about the Disease Management BPIP for a chance to become the February Agency of the Month.
RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT
Home Health Prospective Payment System Fact Sheet
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) enterprise applications are those hosted and managed by CMS and do not include Fiscal Intermediary (FI)/carrier/Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Internet applications. This one page guide, released December 2007, provides instructions for registering two staff members for the IACS-PC CMS online application. The Home Health Prospective Payment System Fact Sheet provides information about coverage of home health services and elements of the Home Health Prospective Payment System.
IN THE NEWS
MINIMIZING ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS IN OLDER PATIENTS
Am Fam Physician 2007;76:1837-44. Copyright © 2007 American Academy of Family Physicians
Health Affairs, 27, no. 1 (2008): 159-168, doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.1.159, © 2008 by Project HOPE
THE EFFECT OF THE MEDICARE PART D PRESCRIPTION BENEFIT ON DRUG UTILIZATION AND EXPENDITURES
Annals of Internal Medicine. V148, 3 (2/2008). American College of Physicians.
INDUSTRY EVENTS
Dancing with Your Data in 2008: The New Paradigm
February 13, 2008 - 11:30 am to 1:00 pm EST
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