Improving the Value of Acute & Emergency Care: Innovations in Senior Emergency Care
With an increasing push to value-based care and increasing quality measurements, innovations in acute and emergency care are increasingly necessary and organizations have started to realize the central role of EDs in value-based care. Leaders on the frontlines of innovation speak on gaining an understanding of what’s new, what works, and what doesn’t as well as the government and quality-focused policies that create incentives for organizations to invest in improving acute and emergency care.
Welcome/Overview
- Jesse Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE, GWU / Urgent Matters
Opening Keynote: Achieving Better Emergency Care for Seniors
- Zia Agha, MD, CMO, Executive VP Clinical Research, Medical Informatics & Telehealth, West Health
Panel 1: Risk Screening for Seniors in the ED: What, Why and How?
- Moderator: Kelly Ko, PhD, Principal Investigator, West Health
- Panelist 1: Chris Carpenter, MD, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Washington University
- Panelist 2: Tom Crisman, RN, GENIE Nurse- UC San Diego ED
- Panelist 3: Dr. Maura Kennedy, MD, Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard
Update on Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL)
- Arjun Venkatesh, MD
Home and Community-based Acute Care in a “Total Cost of Care” Model
- Alex Foxman, MD, CEO National ACO, Founder PriveMD
On-Demand Mobile Acute Care
- Mark Prather, MD, CEO DispatchHealth
A Better Way: Combining People and Technology to bring the ED to the SNF Patient
- Tim Peck, MD, Co-founder & CEO Call9
ED Innovations within a Next Generation ACO model
- Mark Gwynne, DO, President and Executive Medical Director, UNC Health Alliance/Senior Alliance
Senior-focused Research: Multi-site, Single-site, and National-level Analysis
- Ula Hwang, MD, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Care, Mt Sinai
- Lindsey Yourman, MD, Asst. Professor of Medicine, UC San Diego, Post-doctoral Fellow, West Health Institute
Panel 2: Innovations in Home Health in Acute and Emergency Care
- Moderator: John Zifferblatt, MD, MPH, MBA, Senior Director, Clinical Research, West Health
- Panelist 1: Desiree Leithem, FNP-C, Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care/Express Care Director of Advanced Practice Providers, UC San Diego ED
- Panelist 2: Jared Conley, MD, PhD, Clinical Fellow, Emergency Medicine, Mass. General, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
- Panelist 3: Derrick Hauser, DO, Chief, Dept. of Geriatrics, Palliative Medicine and Continuing Care, Kaiser Permanente San Diego
Winner of 2018 Innovation Award: The Tech-enabled Emergency & Acute Medicine at the Skilled Nursing Facility bedside (TEAM SNF) Model of Care
- Tim Peck, MD, Co-founder & CEO Call9
Brainstorm new models and ways to apply UM conference recommendations to their own local EDs
- Jesse Pines, MD