OVERVIEW

Medical Director and Clinician Leadership Forum 2023 is organized by OptumHealth Education (OHE) and will be held from Jul 17, 2023 - Jul 17, 2025.

Activity opens: 07/17/2023
Activity expires: 07/17/2025

Activity Description:
This activity offers something for everyone from managed health care medical directors to clinical executives working within the managed-care framework. Its focus is on innovations and evidence-based research related to optimizing patient care, outcomes, and benefit management.

Topics include:

  • Applying Research to Current Practices: A Roadmap to Accelerate the Route From Learning to Impact
  • Concerning Maternal Mortality: Coordinating Improved Outcomes for Mothers
  • Current Initiatives at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
  • Focus on Front Line Behavioral Health Care Practices in Youth
  • Keynote Address: Medical Technology: A Conduit to Streamlining Patient Care,
  • Navigating the Social Determinants of Health Through the 3-Function Approach to Communication
  • Paradigm Shifts in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Challenging New Landscape

Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this conference, learners should be able to:

  • Discuss how medical technology can streamline patient care and provide real-time data to enhance clinical care planning and health care team communication. 
  • Examine the current state and prevalence of maternal mortality, including factors influencing disparities in care and proposed actions to improve outcomes.
  • Describe updates in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, including care team management approaches that improve quality of life and associated changes in the health care system. 
  • Identify strategies to adapt clinical and evidence-based data efficiently and safely into daily health care practice.
  • Cite the current initiatives and payment models offered by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“The Innovation Center”) to address health care costs and quality. 
  • Report on strategies for HCPs to help patients navigate their social determinants of health through partnerships, networking, and the incorporation of social services. 
  • Examine strategies aimed at improving front line behavioral health care practices and outcomes. 
Credits

Accreditation

Method for calculating CE credit
CE credit was calculated by the complexity of content.
Accreditation Statement:
In support of improving patient care, Optum Health Education 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 health care team.
Credit designation statements
IPCE Credit LogoThis activity was planned by and for the health care team, and learners will receive 5.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.

Nurses
The participant will be awarded up to 5.50 contact hour(s) of credit for attendance and completion of supplemental materials.

Nurse practitioners
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.

Pharmacists/Pharmacy technicians
This activity is approved for 5.50 contact hour(s) ([0.550] CEU) in states that recognize ACPE.
Attending the full program will earn 5.50 contact hour(s).
Unique Activity Number(s): JA0007123-0000-23-102-H01-P/T

Physicians
Optum Health Education designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

PAs
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Dietitians 
Completion of this RD/DTR profession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit=One CPEU).

If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60 minute hour=1 CPEU).

RD's and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Performance indicator selection is at the learner's discretion.

Psychologists
Optum Health Education is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Optum Health Education maintains responsibility for this program. 5.50 CE hour.

Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Optum Health Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Optum Health Education maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 5.50 enduring continuing education credit.

Attendance
A certificate of attendance will be provided to learners upon completion of activity requirements, enabling participants to register with licensing boards or associations that have not been preapproved for credits. To apply for credit types not listed above, participants should use the procedure established by the specific organization with which they wish to obtain credit. 

  • 5.5 Contact Hours
  • 5.5 IPCE
  • 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
  • 5.5 CE Hours
  • 5.5 CE Credits
  • TARGET AUDIENCE

    PhysicianNursingPharmacistHealthcare ProfessionalsNursesDietitianSocial WorkersRegistered Dieticians & Dietetic TechniciansLeadershipNurse PractitionersOther Health ProfessionalsPsychologists

    SPECIALITIES

    Leadership

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