Innovation in Health Care Leadership Care Redesign : Creating the Future of Care Delivery

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A special invitation for valued readers of the New England Journal of Medicine : A webinar 

A New Era of Rapid Change: 

• Team Care. 
• Value Chain. 
• Care & Coverage.

Overview: 

What does the transition “from volume to value” mean for health care and the organizations that deliver it? The redesign of care around value – meeting patients’ needs and doing so as efficiently as possible – has begun in earnest in the U.S. and around the world. In this live meeting and webcast, thought leaders and experienced managers will discuss key strategic and tactical issues for organizations and clinicians seeking to adapt and thrive in the new environment. Speakers will address how to create and sustain the teamwork needed to provide high value care; practical implications of organizing care to enhance health rather than provide sick care; and the evolution of payment systems to reward high value care for chronic disease. This event will provide actionable insights for leaders of provider organizations, clinicians, health care purchasers, and policy-makers.

How can health care leaders harness today's rapid changes to optimize the value of care with better outcomes, at affordable costs, delivered by passionate clinicians? Join the dialogue with nine thought-leaders who will deliver actionable insights in this live web event addressing these pressing topics and more:

* Building interdisciplinary teams to deliver on the promise of coordinated, seamless care??

* How can clinicians organize their care differently to provide both quality and efficiency??

* Addressing social needs to improve outcomes: How some organizations are turning the theoretical into the possible??

* Across the value-chain, how can changes in care delivery (telehealth, population care, and a service mindset) improve

health outcomes??

* Care and coverage: Can bundled payments improve care delivery for chronic disease??

Agenda:

When: September 30, 2015, 1:00 – 5:00 pm, Eastern Time

Where: Live web event from the Center for Total Health, Washington, DC

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1:00 – 1:05 Tom Lee introduces “Care Redesign: Creating the Future of Care Delivery” 

1:05 – 1:20 Opening Talk: Amy Compton-Phillips, Event Chair

Drawing on experience in care system improvements, Dr. Compton-Phillips will describe key principles for the redesign of care for the new era, ranging from clarity on the goal of the redesign to tactical wisdom – including what it means to “think big and act small.”

Speakers:

Thomas H. Lee, MSc, Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey; Editorial Board, NEJM

Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Providence Health & Services

1:20 – 2:15 Topic 1: Team Care for the 21st Century 

The leader of a highly effective network of team care for all Parkinson’s disease patients in the Netherlands will describe what they have done right – and hard-learned mistakes to avoid. But is there a secret sauce that makes teams work effectively? An expert on organizational teams will explore the key ingredients and how to tell if you are on the right or wrong track.

Speakers:

Bastiaan R. Bloem, MD, PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands

Sara Singer, MBA, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Care Management and Policy, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Moderator: Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Providence Health & Services 

2:15 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:25 Topic 2: The Health Care Value Chain

What does it mean for health care to produce something other than Relative Value Units? The CEO of a major safety net organization will describe the challenges, practical applications, and rewards of addressing social needs as part of routine care, and a leader from Kaiser Permanente will discuss the organization of care around the production of health.

Speakers:

Anna M Roth, RN, MS, MPH, CEO, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and Health Centers

Robert Pearl, MD, Executive Director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group and President and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group

Moderator: Tom Lee 

3:25 – 3:40 Break

3:40 – 4:35 Topic 3: Care and Coverage: Changing Payment to Change Chronic Disease Care Delivery

The fee-for-service system is particularly unsuited for high value chronic disease care. What would an ideal payment system look like, and how far off is it? Leading experts on bundled payment describe what this payment model can achieve – and initiatives already underway – across of a range of populations and payers.

Speakers:

Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, Acting Principal Deputy Administrator, Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, and Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Francois de Brantes, MS, MBA, Executive Director, Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, Inc

Moderator: Thomas Graf, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Population Health and Longitudinal Care Service Lines, Geisinger Health System

4:35 – 5:00 Closing Remarks

Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Providence Health & Services

Thomas H. Lee, Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey; Editorial Board, NEJM

5:00 Adjourn

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Vaagdevi College of Pharmacy - India

Elsevier Student Ambassador - South Asia

8 Star Pharmacist : A WHO integrated model

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The World Health Organization has proposed an 8 - star Pharmacist model to describe various roles of Pharmacist in providing better pharmaceutical care and decision making. Taking this into account, if practiced under a well trained pharmacy professional, there is a possibility of achieving a better impact in the healthcare system.

Concept from World Health Organization

Caregiver: Pharmacists provide caring services. They must view their practice as integrated and continuous with those of the health care professionals with highest quality.

Decision-maker: The appropriate, efficacious, safe and cost-effective use of resources should be the foundation of the pharmacist’s work. At the local and national levels, pharmacists play a role in setting medicines policy. Achieving this goal requires the ability to evaluate, synthesize data and information and decide upon the most appropriate course of action.

Communicator: The pharmacist is in an ideal position to provide a link between prescriber and patient, and to communicate information on health and medicines to the public. He or she must be knowledgeable and confident while interacting with other health professionals and the public. 

Manager: Pharmacists must be able to manage resources and information effectively; they must also be comfortable being managed by others, whether by an employer or the manager/leader of a health care team. 

Life-long-learner: It is impossible to acquire in pharmacy school all the knowledge and experience needed to pursue a life-long career as a pharmacist. The concepts, principles and commitment to lifelong learning must begin while attending pharmacy school and must be supported throughout the pharmacist’s career. Pharmacists should learn how to keep their knowledge and skills up to date.

Teacher: The pharmacist has a responsibility to assist with the education and training of future generations of pharmacists and the public. Participating as a teacher not only imparts knowledge to others, it offers an opportunity for the practitioner to gain new knowledge and to fine-tune existing skills.

Leader: In multidisciplinary caring situations or in areas where other health care providers are in short supply pharmacist should assume a leadership position in the overall welfare of the patient and the community. Leadership involves compassion and empathy as well as vision and the ability to make decisions, communicate, and manage effectively. A pharmacist whose leadership role is to be recognized must have vision and the ability to lead.

And the added function of:

Researcher: The pharmacist must be able to use the evidences effectively in order to advise on the rational use of medicines in the healthcare team. By sharing and documenting experiences, the pharmacist can also contribute to the evidence base with the goal of optimizing patient care and outcomes. As a researcher, the pharmacist is able to increase the accessibility of unbiased health and medicines-related information to the public and other healthcare professionals.

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Vaagdevi College of Pharmacy - India

Elsevier Student Ambassador - South Asia

Global Student Research : Make A Difference in Five Minutes

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"Your Contribution is very important to us"

You are well aware of the present situation and current global scenario of student research activities. Comparatively high income countries are more advanced in research than middle and low income countries.When it comes to student's research activities most of the developing and underdeveloped countries shows a rapid decline. This decline can be due to lack of knowledge, lack of research facilities, no proper funding, no research lab particular to their area of research and many more in their respective universities. In order to fulfill the research gaps and achieve advancements in the global scenario, there is an utmost need to address the problems.

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How can we address the problems??
The world is so advanced with full of research activities and it is the need of the student to address their interests, overcome the problems and find solutions for a better career. When it comes to the global scenario such essentialities are to be addressed to the particular regulatory and global research authorities in order to fulfill the research gaps and provide better platform. 

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How can we achieve success??
Unless, the basic research interests of the students and their current knowledge on research activities are not well determined it will be difficult to find the loopholes and fulfill the research gaps. Once there is clear evidence on the knowledge aspects and the current scenario many relevant measures can be taken to fill the research gaps and raise the advancements in the global research.

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How to determine the knowledge and research gaps??

In order to determine the current knowledge and present scenario of student research activities, a group of researchers from various countries came forward and decided to launch a research on views, knowledge and perception of medical/pharmacy students on medical/clinical research by conducting a survey on "Medical/Pharmacy students’ views, knowledge and perception towards medical research and engaging in scholarly journal publications" in all the countries. So, we wish to take your contribution in this survey to strengthen the student research scholarly activities. Kindly, go through the link provided and report your valuable opinion. Please forward to your peers and encourage them to participate.

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Who can participate in this survey??

All Pharmacy (Diploma/Bachelor/Master/Doctor), Dental (UG & PG) and Medical (UG & PG) students all over the world are welcome to fill out the survey.

Message from the researchers... Indeed, it is our immense pleasure to welcome your participation. Your contribution is very important to us and this will not go in vain despite it strengthens the student research scholarly activities.

Thanking you in anticipation.

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Elsevier Student Ambassador - South Asia

Elsevier Student Ambassador 2015 : Apply today

Elsevier Student Ambassador (ESA) programme is one of the most thriving programmes of Elsevier South Asia giving you the chance to become a liaison between Elsevier and your college/University. The mandate of this programme is to have student ambassadors from health sciences community across South Asia who can connect with each other and open gates to unexplored opportunities in their fields.

Joining this programme empowers you to connect with your fellow ESAs across the South Asia, get access to the latest from Elsevier Information repository, and be a part of the team that will help in redefining the health care education in South Asia.

As a student ambassador, you will get many opportunities to upgrade your skills, connect with your peers and be the face of Elsevier. You would get an exclusive chance to become expert reviewers of Elsevier and also an opportunity to author with it. You would get to attend significant CMEs, author events, product launch events, conferences, group discussions etc., apart from having free trials of the rich Elsevier products once you are chosen as the ESA. And much more..

How to apply : "Become an ESA"

This will direct you to the facebook page of Elsevier
1) Register by entering your details
2) Login with your email id
3) Read the terms and conditions
4) Be a part of the quiz competition and answer 30 questions in 15 minutes and submit
5) Submit an Essay regarding the topic mentioned
6) Wait for the telephonic Interview

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