OptumHealth Education (OHE) 31st Annual National Conference

OptumHealth Education (OHE) 31st Annual National Conference is organized by OptumHealth Education (OHE).

Activity Description:
These activities consist of recordings from the "31st Annual National Conference" held in Bloomington, Minn.

Throughout these activities, experts address gaps in the management of complex medical and behavioral health care. During these activities, innovative clinical, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion health care topics are brought to the forefront.

Learning Objectives:
Health care professionals need to have the competency, skills, and ability to apply new information learned as they care for individual patients and their families, as well as for themselves. As a result of attending this conference, learners should be able to:

• Provide an update on current trends in CAR T-cell therapy, including emerging opportunities across multiple disease states.
• Describe the hallmarks of successful transplant programs that provide improved access to care and can be customized by other programs to optimize health equality.
• Recognize the challenges surrounding the timely diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases and their impact on quality of life, costs, and outcomes.
• Identify new data regarding chronic kidney disease (CKD), cardiovascular and metabolic disease, the genomic premises of CKD, and emerging targeted therapies.
• Report on the current state of obesity care and analyze strategies to decrease the inequity found in obesity prevention and management.
• Discuss the role and utilization of specialty pharmacies and the processes and costs associated with the pharmaceuticals they provide.
• Examine multiple aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including key takeaways for future pandemics, current data on long COVID syndrome, and its role in highlighting telehealth as an essential platform to ensure continuity of care.
• Detail updates in colorectal cancer care, including prevalence trends, screening recommendations and modalities, current and emerging treatments focused on tumor-specific targets and recent findings in research studies and clinical trials.
• Explain the ambulatory allogeneic transplant model and recognize the potential advantages and drawbacks of these programs.
• Explore health care transition plans that optimize care team integration for pediatric patients moving to adult medical health services and how the utilization of these plans impact health outcomes.
• Discuss interventional and collaborative care approaches that can address the surging mental health crisis in adolescents and help mitigate suicidality.