Author: dianawinder

Webinar: What’s in the Box?! Decreasing Medication Errors in the Last Mile, October 23

October 14, 2025

Webinar: What’s in the Box?! Decreasing Medication Errors in the Last Mile, October 23

Logistics are typically placed into a separate category from the upstream clinical workflow in the pharmacy. However, there are impactful solutions – both old and new that are quickly becoming the standard of practice as the stakes are raised unanimously across this industry. This presentation will be a hybrid retro and prospective in medication safety principles after the point of final verification.

Learning Points

  • Define the types of errors that occur in the last mile and their root causes,
  • Recall medication safety principles and technologies that can be applied to reduce last-mile errors, and
  • Name cultural and strategic approaches to error prevention, including just culture and data-driven continuous improvement.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, October 23, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Registration Now Open: 2025 Annual Rural Health Day Celebration, November 20

October 9 2025

Registration Now Open: 2025 Annual Rural Health Day Celebration, November 20

Since 2011, the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) has set aside the third Thursday of November to celebrate the “Power of Rural” on National Rural Health Day (NRHD).

This day is an opportunity to bring attention to and honor the incredible efforts of rural healthcare providers, communities, and organizations. Please join DHSS’s Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (ORHPC) this year’s Power of Rural Celebration.

Cost: No Charge

When: Thursday, November 20, 2025,

  • Check in and networking 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
  • Main event and presentations 10:00 a.m. –   3:00 p.m.

Where:

Capital Bluffs Event Center

1616 Oil Well Road

Jefferson City, MO 65101

Registration is required as we will be serving lunch and need an accurate head count.

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CAP-CT Learning Collaborative, Apply by November 7

October 8, 2025

CAP-CT Learning Collaborative, Apply by November 7

Identifying and engaging caregivers improves health outcomes and quality of life for both the person receiving care and their caregivers!

During this 12-month learning collaborative, participating health care delivery sites will pilot a care process of their choosing to help teams identify, engage, and support family caregivers. Participants will benefit from peer learning while advancing their own goals for improving caregiver support within their organization. Participants will also be supported by CAP-CT training and resources.

Outcomes from the collaborative will inform an implementation toolkit that will be shared widely to facilitate greater adoption of care processes that help health care teams identify, engage, and support family caregivers.

Why Participate:

  • Align with national initiatives:
    • Reinforce your organization’s commitment to Age-Friendly Health Systems, the GUIDE model, or other caregiver-inclusive models.
  • Receive financial support:
    • Offset participation with a stipend.
  • Support and learn from peers:
    • Engage in cross-system learning with other innovative organizations, and
  • Gain recognition:
    • Be featured in a publicly shared implementation toolkit.

Eligibility:

This collaborative is open to health care delivery sites in adult inpatient settings. Individuals from the participating sites should be in a leadership role with the authority to make operational or process improvements, e.g., for a department, division, unit, etc.

Participation Stipend:

Participating sites will be offered a stipend of $8,000 for the time spent engaged in the learning collaborative, as outlined in the participant expectations.

Apply by November 7, 2025.

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Webinar: From Data to Decisions: How Leading Healthcare Systems are Finding New Value in Patient-Reported Outcomes, October 16

October 8, 2025

Webinar: From Data to Decisions: How Leading Healthcare Systems are Finding New Value in Patient-Reported Outcomes, October 16

Siloed patient-reported outcome (PRO) initiatives leave data unused and front-line teams unsupported. Norton Healthcare, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Endeavor Health, and Northwestern Medicine are taking a different path – embedding PROs across their organizations to shape care delivery, guide innovation, and meet regulatory demands.

In this webinar, physician leaders and executives from these systems and PatientIQ will share real-world strategies for moving beyond disconnected surveys to a unified, enterprise-wide approach. They’ll unpack lessons from implementation and the ROI of treating PROs as a strategic resource.

Key Takeaways:

  • How to align PROs with clinical and quality improvement initiatives,
  • Infrastructure and workflows to scale PROs across service lines, and
  • Why more health systems are investing in PROs for patient engagement and decision-making.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, October 16, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Webinar: How MedStar Freed 24K Hours of OR Time and Expanded Patient Access, October 15

October 8, 2025

Webinar: How MedStar Freed 24K Hours of OR Time and Expanded Patient Access, October 15

Disjointed scheduling policies. Manual workflows. Limited real-time data. These inefficiencies once hampered MedStar Health’s 10-hospital network – until a new, data-driven access strategy changed the trajectory.

Through standardized block management, cloud-based scheduling tools and a systemwide governance model, MedStar unlocked more than 24,000 hours of OR time. This transformation took place even as the organization transitioned its HER across 300+ sites of care.

In this webinar, hear how MedStar’s perioperative leaders improved surgical access, increased block utilization and built trust across teams.

You’ll learn how they used real-time data to shift culture and sustain gains across one of the Mid-Atlantic’s largest health systems – including:

  • 30% drop in abandoned and unreleased block time,
  • 9,900 open-time releases filled, securing 24,700 hours of scheduled cases, and
  • 34-day average in proactive block release.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, October 15, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

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Webinar: The Future of Workforce Planning, Simplified – Executive Physician Workforce Panel, October 15

October 8, 2025

Webinar: The Future of Workforce Planning, Simplified – Executive Physician Workforce Panel, October 15

C-Suite leaders and physician executives face growing pressure to retain top talent, close workforce pipeline gaps and plan for sustainable growth. This panel will explore how two leading health systems are leveraging technology, centralized planning and data-driven insights to build resilient physician workforce roadmaps that align well-being, retention and development with long-term organizational outcomes.

Attendees will see how centralizing operations through tech – from AI-powered scheduling to integrated analytics – streamlines processes, reduces costs and elevates care quality. Panelists will share actionable strategies for modernizing workforce planning while ensuring true partnership between clinical and executive leadership.

Key Takeaways:

  • Explore strategic workforce roadmaps that support retention and well-being,
  • See how technology closes pipeline gaps and improves forecasting, and
  • Learn best practices to centralize operations and enhance efficiency.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, October 15, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Article: What AI Really Means for Clinical Documentation Integrity

October 8, 2025

Article: What AI Really Means for Clinical Documentation Integrity

Clinical documentation has long been one of the most demanding and consequential tasks in healthcare. But recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to change that reality. What once required arduous chart reviews and repeated provider follow-up is giving way to tools that capture encounters in real time, flag gaps or missed diagnoses, and strengthen coding accuracy. The impact is already clear in how organizations approach reimbursement, compliance, and the overall integrity of patient records.

Yet with every new advance come new questions.

  • Can documentation produced with AI be trusted?
  • How can hospitals safeguard patient privacy as sensitive data flows through new systems?
  • Will CDI specialists see these platforms as partners that enhance their work-or as replacements?

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Rural Health Lecture Series: Understanding and Addressing Food Insecurity, October 14

October 7, 2025

Rural Health Lecture Series: Understanding and Addressing Food Insecurity, October 14

During this series, experts speak on a variety of topics impacting rural health. Attend the first lecture in this four-part, year-long series.

Cost: There is no charge to attend this series, but registration is required.

When: Tuesday, October 14, 6:00 p.m.

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On-Demand Webinar: Driving Audit Excellence: Understanding Statistical Modeling & High-Impact Coding Solutions

October 7, 2025

On-Demand Webinar: Driving Audit Excellence: Understanding Statistical Modeling & High-Impact Coding Solutions

For compliance leaders, revenue cycle teams and legal counsel, audits are nothing new – but when the numbers don’t make sense, the stakes skyrocket. Statistically invalid findings can trigger major repayment demands, disrupt operations and damage reputations.

In this session, you’ll learn how to recognize audit risk early, safeguard coding accuracy in high-risk specialties like cardiology, and coordinate legal, compliance and coding resources for the strongest possible defense.

Insights Include:

  • Early indicators your organization may be vulnerable to adverse audit outcomes,
  • Coding safeguards to protect high-dollar, high-complexity claims, and
  • Real-world lessons from successful and unsuccessful appeal strategies.

Cost: Free

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Join This New Echo: Intensive Behavioral Treatment for Healthy Weight, October 15

October 7, 2025

Join This New Echo: Intensive Behavioral Treatment for Healthy Weight, October 15

The intensive Behavioral Treatment (IBT) for Healthy Weight ECHO will educate, empower, and support a team-based IBT to adults and children with obesity and their families.

Licensed behavioral health professionals, registered dietitians, physicians, advanced practice professionals, physician assistants, and community health workers are invited to join a multidisciplinary team of experts and specialists for virtual collaborative learning sessions every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

What does this ECHO offer:

  • Free continuing education for qualifying professionals,
  • Collaboration, support, and ongoing learning from specialists and experts across the state, and
  • NO COST to participating sites or individuals.

Next Session is October 15, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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