Arkansas Clinical Transformation (ACT) Program Learning Session 4

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Date & Location
Thursday, October 8, 2020, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, UAMS Spine Institute, Smith Auditorium, Little Rock, AR

Target Audience
Specialties - Family Practice

Overview
Learning sessions are monthly or bimonthly sessions for primary care clinic teams that are sub-granted to participate in the Arkansas Department of Health’s ACT program. Sessions focus on facilitated learning for implementation of best practices and achieving systems change through application of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Chronic Care model, and NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home principles, clinical practice guidelines, performance measurement, EHR adaptation, and clinical risk and population management to effectively improve chronic disease patient outcomes.


Objectives
  1. Describe the importance and implementation of management of hypertension in accordance with evidence-based guidelines, with an emphasis on evaluating elevated blood pressure with no diagnosis of hypertension.
  2. Discuss hypertension management with an emphasis on resistant and secondary hypertension.
  3. Discuss the role of clinical risk-stratification with an emphasis on transitioning patients from high clinical risk for hypertension to low clinical risk.
  4. Increase coordinated care efficiencies and risk stratification for the management of patients with hypertension and hypercholesterolemia.
  5. Discuss implementation plan for identification of high-risk patients using pre-visit planning and EMR identification.
  6. Describe best practices used to improve blood pressure (BP) control, including BP self-monitoring.
  7. Discuss implementation of hypercholesterolemia management.
  8. Identify changes that need to be tested as part of Action Period 4.
  9. Develop clinic team plans for Action Period 4.

Registration
Registration is free. However, for tracking purposes we would still like each attendee to register.
Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (5.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (5.00 hours), ACPE - Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (5.00 hours), ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (5.00 hours), AAPA - American Academy of PAs Category 1 CME (5.00 hours)