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Never Events: Reducing Preventable Errors and Their Impact

90-Minute Audio Conference on CD-ROM

	Presenters
	Dr. Richard Bankowitz VP & Medical Director for Healthcare Informatics Premier Inc. Click Here for Biography
	Mike Reno VP & Co-chair of the Patient Safety and Quality Committee St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (Houston, TX) Click Here for Biography
	James Parish EVP, Performance RWD Technologies Click Here for Biography

CD-ROM: $247 Includes conference on CD-ROM and all materials.

How The Conference Works “Attend this program right in your office and enjoy significant savings—no travel time, hassle or hotel expenses. It’s so convenient!  Gather in a conference room and use a speakerphone. The conference lasts 90 minutes. No special equipment is needed. All you need is a computer with speakers!

Medicare officials announced that it no longer will pay for two more preventable conditions, expanding the total list to ten.  According to the National Quality Forum (NQF), “never events” are errors in medical care that are clearly identifiable, preventable, and serious in their consequences for patients, and that indicate a real problem in the safety and credibility of a health care facility.  These include medication errors, poor communication between doctor and patient, falls and infections, and surgical errors.

Medicare's policy often sets precedent for private insurers, and many of them already have begun to adopt their own never-event policies. Many states are also reviewing their Medicaid program policies. 

Some argue that Medicare has taken on conditions that might be largely—though not always—preventable. Some hospitals and others are concerned that the new strategy could drive up medical costs as hospitals absorb or pass on the expense of introducing the safety and screening procedures needed to help avoid mistakes.  The American Medical Association recently argued that the new CMS rules threaten to increase the practice of defense medicine and will ultimately expose physicians to additional lawsuits. But others argue the efforts will trigger safety improvements and savings for patients.  

Hospitals are now exploring innovative programs to prevent injury and infection.  What can hospitals do to reduce these no-pay events?

Join the Managed Care Information Center and three industry leaders for “Never Events: Reducing Preventable Errors and Their Impact,” that took place in  August 2008.

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Agenda

• The CMS mandate and growing list of "preventable errors" they will no longer pay for 
• How hospitals can minimize preventable errors
• The quality  incentives CMS is offering to participating hospital adminstrators
• How  hospitals are impacted  by current regulations
• Case Study:  St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital  
• How they are eliminating errors and receiving quality initiatives
• How hospital network participants are proactively dealing with the mandate
• Possible solutions to specific errors, such as post-surgical infection
• What C-level hospital administrators should know about where the CMS mandate is likely to grow
• Future implications for hospitals
• Compliance/regulatory implication issues and ramifications
• Question and answer session

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