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Not Just Your IMAGINationthe Significant Risks in Radiology
Program Code:
TH-21
Date:
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Time:
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
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CO-PRESENTER
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Jane Sharpe,
RN, MS, ARM, CPHRM, Vice President, Risk Management,
BerkleyMed
Jane is responsible for the direction of the BerkleyMed Risk Management services department and consults for self-insured clients. Prior to joining BerkleyMed in 2005 Jane was a Corporate Director of Risk Management for a self-insured integrated health system for 13 years. Her responsibilities in healthcare risk management included loss control, claims management, and risk financing for the health system and its employed physicians. Her nursing career included patient care and management in pediatric critical care. Jane recently contributed to the ASHRM Pearls for Long Term Care and currently serves on the Value Advisory Committee for ASHRM.
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PRESENTER
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Sharon Groves,
RN, MSA, ARM, FASHRM, CPHRM, Assistant Vice President, Risk Management,
Berkley Medical Excess
Sharon L. Groves, is an Assistant Vice President-Risk Management with BerkleyMed, where she is responsible for developing and implementing a variety of health care risk management activities for insureds. Ms. Groves has over thirty years of health care and insurance industry experience as a director of risk management, and risk management consultant for health care and medical malpractice insurance companies. She is a past member of the board for the American Society of Healthcare Risk Managers (ASHRM)
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Description
This will involve a tag-team, powerpoint presentation of lessons learned from: our experiences in performing Radiology department risk assessments, the related literature reviews that help us prepare for these risk assessments, and claims experiences involving radiology/imaging services patient care. We will also educate risk managers about the hot topics in radiology. Some of the sub-topics will include MRI safety, indicators for performance improvement, interventional radiology risks, patient emergency preparedness, claims data related to radiology in dollars, relationships between radiology and surgery, the ED, and critical care areas specific to hand-offs and communication, radiology holding areas, documentation including the EMR
LEARNER OUTCOMES:
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Describe at least 3 of the documentation pitfalls that can complicate the defense of Radiology claim
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Identify areas of risk that are unique for diagnostic interventional patients in the Radiology Dept
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Identify collaborative strategies to improve ps in the transition of patient care between radiology