Advancing Comprehensive Breast Programs and Services to Maximize Competitive Advantage,
Improve Care Coordination, Implement Quality Measures and Exceed Patient Satisfaction on May 18 - 20, 2016 • Jacksonville, Florida.
The goal of this event is to bring industry leaders together, highlight the best practice achievements, and discuss the current issues and developments in breast care and the cancer community.
Featuring a Tour of the Mayo Clinic:
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit worldwide leader in medical care, research and education for people from all walks of life. Providing comprehensive diagnosis and treatment by teams of experts, Mayo Clinic is consistently ranked among the best U.S. hospitals. The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Fla., is a single NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center with three geographic locations, dedicated to understanding the biology of cancer while transforming quality of life for patients. In 2015 Mayo Clinic was named a Cancer Center of Excellence by the state of Florida.
Key Topics Include:
• Optimizing coordination of care through dedicated navigation: navigating a patient from point of screening mammogram through to completion of breast cancer treatment and onward into survivorship to improve patient outcomes
• Leveraging state-of-the-art Comprehensive Breast Centers to provide the best possible care in prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment
• Exploring the most up-to-date technologies in diagnosis and treatment to improve efficiency and patient outcomes
• Mastering an interdisciplinary approach to achieve excellence in breast care and program management
• Determining the appropriate partners to ensure success within your interdisciplinary breast care program
• Maximizing breast care reimbursement and fully realizing the benefits of updated billing opportunities
• Overcoming the challenges of realizing a multidisciplinary program, hurdles confronted along the way, and lessons learned
• Marketing the benefits of a breast program to maximize competitive advantage
• Negotiating individual organization’s ideals with national recommendations for screening criteria
• Providing more individualized care by looking at variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for patients
• Examining the process and benefits of the different accreditation programs for Breast Centers
• Employing survivorship integrated medicine and programs to increase patient engagement and overall satisfaction
• Incorporating patient advocacy and support groups into treatment plans to better serve patients and their families
• Metrics and measurements for the quality of care within a Breast Center