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Successful Provider and Payer Contract Negotiations
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
Whether you are a novice or a seasoned negotiator, payer contracts can be complicated and difficult to interpret, even with an attorney or a consultant by your side. Join us for the next presentation in our virtual speaker series, DCMS Connect: Successful Provider and Payer Contract Negotiations. Dr. Christopher Crow, CEO of Catalyst Health Network, shared his experiences and knowledge on contract negotiations.
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Cultural Bias in Healthcare
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
This presentation was developed for healthcare professionals committed to improving quality and reducing racial and ethnic differences in health and health care. Health care professionals may not be familiar with recent developments in strategies to reduce disparities. This CME course presents evidence-based best practices and practical strategies to reduce discrimination gaps in health care quality.
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Women in Medicine: Why Healthcare Needed COVID
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
With burnout rates on the rise, strong mentorship among all physician communities should be encouraged. Specifically, females make up 50 percent of medical school graduates, but comprise only 33 percent of the physician work force. To celebrate and empower our amazing women in medicine, Hala Sabry, DO, founder of “Physician Moms Group,” spoke about being a female physician and a mom during the current pandemic.
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Road to Practice Recovery: A Guide for Reopening Your Practice Post COVID-19
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
From evaluating staffing levels and managing patient appointments, to ensuring patient safety and communicating regularly with patients and staff, this guide provides the information practices need to more confidently head in the right direction.
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Healthcare, Remixed: 2021 and Beyond with ZDoggMD
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
The last DCMS Connect webinar for 2020 featured Dr. Zubin Damania, also known as "ZDoggMD." ZDoggMD discussed all that we have faced and accomplished in 2020 while helping us to recharge for the new year.
Dr. Zubin Damanian is a UCSF/Stanford trained internist and founder of Turntable Health, an innovative primary care clinic and model for Health 3.0. During a decade-long hospitalist career at Stanford, he experienced our dysfunctional health care system firsthand. As a way to address his own “burnout” and find a voice, he started producing videos and live shows under the pseudonym “ZDoggMD” that have since gone epidemically viral. Click here to register and watch the video.
Dallas County COVID-19 and Influenza Update
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
Trish M. Perl, MD, MSc, provides a physician-targeted update on the current status of the pandemic and projected effects that COVID-19 and influenza will have on healthcare in Dallas. Dr. Perl also provides updated guidelines regarding the vaccine rollout, availability and much more.
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Strengthening Medicine in the 87th Texas Legislature
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
During the 87th Texas legislative session, TMA will work with legislators to navigate budget challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. They will also work to ensure that nothing interferes with the patient-physician relationship so that physicians can be there when their patients need them. Dr. Diana Fite, TMA President, will speak to how you can help in this effort and participate in TMA advocacy events during this session.
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Must-Haves for Driving Practice Growth
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
Gaining new patients and continuing to grow as a practice is becoming harder and harder to accomplish but is necessary to ensure future viability. Physicians and their practice leadership must become extremely proficient at how to market their practice in today’s ever-changing world.
Susan Boydell, Partner with Barlow/McCarthy, will focus on the five must-haves for practice growth including the key components of a strong marketing and referral development plan. Attention will be paid to innovative ideas that can help practices differentiate in a very crowded market.
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Physician COVID Liability Protection – Help Is Coming
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
Our healthcare professionals and facilities continue to put themselves at risk each day while facing workforce shortages, inadequate safety supplies, and insufficient information or changing guidance from federal, state, and local government officials while doing everything they can to treat the patient. Join us as Jon Opelt, Executive Director of Texas Alliance For Patient Access, shares the efforts being made to protect physicians and hospitals from medical liability lawsuits during this trying time.
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Physician Burnout Proof - Live Workshop
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
The health care environment—with its packed work days, demanding pace, time pressures, and emotional intensity—can put physicians and other clinicians at high risk for burnout. Burnout is a long-term stress reaction marked by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a lack of sense of personal accomplishment. Dr. Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained family practice physician and the leading coach, trainer, and consultant on the prevention of burnout in individual physicians and the realization of the Quadruple Aim in healthcare organizations. Click here to register and watch the video.
The Role of a Palliative Service in Your Patient’s Care
CME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ with the ethics designation
As physicians start to see many of the baby boomers reach a stage of life where they will need palliative or hospice care, it is important that they understand the differences to look for in these patients, proper communication tools and the impacts that quality end-of-life care can have on the patient and family members. Kathy Ligon MD, FAAHPM, Director of Supportive & Palliative Care at Baylor Scott & White—Irving Medical Center shares her knowledge and expertise on palliative and hospice care.
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