Qual IT Care Alliance Spring Conference

Coming Together: A Path to Equity and Resilience
Monday, April 11th, from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm and 
Tuesday, April 12th, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

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Qual IT Care Alliance Spring Conference

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Speaker Spotlight
Qual IT Care Alliance HCCN is excited to bring you excellent Keynote speakers during our upcoming, in-person Spring Conference on April 11-12, 2022.

Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN, Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and faculty at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity will open the conference with a keynote presentation Achieving Equity in Hypertension Outcomes. Dr. Commodore-Mensah will speak about her work in community-oriented primary care and her current work with community health centers, community health workers and the research supporting the American Heart Association-funded LINKED BP Program. She’ll also address these through the lens of health equity and social determinants of health.


Shana O. Ntiri, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine and Medical Director for Baltimore City Cancer Program will lead the keynote panel, Implicit Bias in Health Care on day two of the conference. Dr. Ntiri will share her insights at the intersection of healthcare disparity and the concepts of implicit bias in healthcare. She’ll also share her leadership in academics, the community and organized medicine as it relates to peeling back the ignorance, indifference and/or hostility toward implicit bias efforts.


Dr. Joseph Ravenell, HealthEfficient Chief Medical and Equity Consultant will moderate a discussion panel with Dr. Ntiri and several of our participating health center CMOs. He’ll also co-lead the Advanced Analytics Breakout Session Mastering the Future: Advanced Analytics for Predicting Risk, Improving Patient Outcomes, and Increasing Health Equity. Dr. Ravenell will discuss the importance of building health equity into advanced analytics from the start.


Raisa Martinez is the Senior Manager of Education & Certified Transcendental Meditation (TM) teacher at THEARC & Heal the Healers Washington DC. She will present on April 11th on Building Resilience: Heal the Healers. Ms. Martinez will speak about the impact on the medical community and the evidence-base for TM, how its practice and use can help build resilience and reduce provider burnout.


We are also excited to bring back Amy Brisson from Community Link Consulting for two of our Operations Breakout sessions. Balancing the Patient Mission with Employee Recruiting and Retention on Monday, April 11th where Ms. Brisson will give attendees an opportunity to participate in a hands-on exercise to assess and create productivity models, job roles and balance with burnout/retention. On Tuesday, April 12th, the At the Table Rather than on the Menu: Payer Contracting and the Future of Value-Based Contracts session will provide attendees with an understanding of basic concepts related to FQHC payer contracting and VBP.


Tamisha McPherson, MPA, Consultant at HealthEfficient and Executive Director/Chief External Affairs and Development Officer, Harlem United also returns to co-lead Piecing Together the Revenue Cycle Puzzle. Participants in this session will learn to tactfully manage accounts receivable, review top denial reasons and potential automation. Additional topics that will be discussed include managing unpaid balances, identifying risks beyond your control and implementing proactive solutions.

Our highly interactive breakout sessions provide the opportunity to hear from your peers that are part of the breakout session panels:
 
General

• Mastering the Future: Advanced Analytics for Predicting Risk, Improving Patient Outcomes, and Increasing Health Equity

Clinical/Quality Improvement (QI)

• Building Resilience: Heal the Healers

• Diabetes Prevention and Management Through a Multi-Stakeholder Approach

• Oral Health Integration

Health Information Technology (HIT)

• Continuity of Operations Planning: Preparing for Cyberattacks and other EHR outages

• Strategies for Success: Assessing your EHR

Operations/Billing

• Balancing the Patient Mission with Employee Recruiting and Retention (Operations/Billing)

• At the Table Rather than on the Menu: Payer Contracting and the Future of Value-Based Contracts (Operations/Billing)

• Piecing Together the Revenue Cycle Puzzle (Operations/Billing)

Please note: All attendees must be fully vaccinated (e.g., at least two shots of the mRNA vaccines) and compliant with any current Baltimore indoor mask mandates at the time of the conference.

Prior to the conference, you’ll receive an email message from CrowdPass Team support@crowdpass.co to upload and submit your proof of vaccination.