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High Tech & High Reliability
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High Tech and High Reliability
Course Description
Why are U.S. healthcare costs rising without a corresponding increase in quality? Why do so many strategies fail to manage cost and quality?
This new ACPE course addresses why information systems and standardization are key to creating positive acceptable improvements in care, how it can benefit care providers and patients simultaneously, what the cultural barriers have been to acceptance of these changes, and elements of the problems faced to the solutions needed in the context of informatics tools.
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Target Audience
This CME activity is intended for physicians and other health care leaders who wish to learn how information systems and standardization are key to creating improvements in health care. This is an elective course in the degree and certification prerequisite curriculum.
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Course Objectives »
- Discover the need for standardization and the ability to make better decisions at the point-of-care.
- Understand why quality follows standardization and cost savings follow quality.
- Learn how collaborative efforts result in a realistic return on investment.
- Find out why clinicians do not embrace standards.
- Learn how a small number of vital changes can create a huge quality impact.
- Uncover the five Cs of change management: comprehension, compassion, collaboration, coordination, and convergence.
- Determine the role health information systems have in managing quality.
- Address these issues with senior leadership and peers.
CME
InterAct Express (self study) - 3.5 CME Credits (Prerequisite Degree/CPE Elective)
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Potential Conflicts of Interest
Consistent with ACPE CME policies, everyone involved in the development, management, presentation and evaluation of this CME activity has provided full disclosure information, and there are no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Faculty Credentials
Method of Physician Participation
InterAct Express (self-study) - To earn CME credit, you must watch all the lectures for this course. Estimated time to complete course- 3.5 hours.
Evaluation Method
Each ACPE CME activity includes an evaluation process to determine that the learning objectives have been met and that the activity was of educational value to the target audience and was unbiased. The evaluation also assesses whether or not the CME activity resulted in a change in physician practice behavior and offers participants a method of feedback.
Course formats and materials
InterAct Express (self-study): course audio lectures available on the ACPE website. There is no online discussion or assignments for Express.
Interact Requirements
System: Microsoft Windows 2000 or later / Mac OS X v10.4 or later
Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 or later / Safari 3.x or later / Firefox 3.x Windows.
(Firefox for Macintosh is NOT supported)
 Flash and Adobe Reader required.
Accreditation — The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation for InterAct Express— The American College of Physician Executives designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Original Course Release Date (InterAct distance education only) — June 2009.
Course Termination Date (InterAct distance education only) — June 2012.
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