Catalog Number : agm1514
Title : Fostering Organizational Collaboration in Hospitals & Health Systems
Speaker : Timothy McNamara

Webplay Recording Date : 7-23-2008
Webplay Price : $ 225 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Presenters: Timothy McNamara, MD, MPH; John Kontor, MD;  Shaun Rangappa, MD

Webinar Title: Fostering Organizational Collaboration in Hospitals and Health Systems

Webinar Overview:

Practical Approaches and Techniques for Standardizing Care and Getting Clinician Consensus and Buy-In.

Most hospitals and health systems struggle in initiatives to standardize order sets, clinical guidelines, nursing protocols, and policies. The number of documents, the even larger number of clinicians and staff involved, the frequent geographic separation of contributors, and difficulties with traditional meetings conspire to make such initiatives complex, expensive, and inefficient.

Webinar Objectives:

• Participants will be able to describe the business need and value proposition for collaboration management in hospitals and health systems
• List key requirements for healthcare-specific document management and collaboration management tools
• Describe success factors for deployment of new collaborative strategies in hospitals and health systems

Webinar Topics:

• Discuss contemporary approaches to collaboration management in healthcare
• Innovative techniques for structured, asynchronous collaboration that achieve rapid consensus
• The buy-in from clinicians
• Presentation of research
• Survey of relevant technologies
• Case studies from healthcare organizations that have deployed collaborative systems and technologies
• Questions

Target Audience:  Physician leaders, nurse leaders, and hospital/health system administrators charged with document-intensive projects involving large groups of contributors. The presentation will be particularly relevant for individuals involved in the creation, maintenance, and update of order sets, clinical guidelines, nursing protocols, and hospital policies and procedures.

Contact Hours:  This course has been approved for 1.8 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.