CAPC Web Conference Event

Leveraging the New IOM Report

Tuesday, October 28, 2014
1:30—2:30 PM ET REGISTRATION CLOSED
A recording of this event will be available approximately 24 hours after the Web Conference on the presentation download page

Featured Presenter

Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP
Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care
Co-Director Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center
Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

About the Web Conference

The new IOM report on care near the end of life in the United States was released on September 17, 2014. The name of the report and the charge to the Committee from the IOM was focused on "end of life"- but the title ("Dying in America") is something of a misnomer as the report itself focuses extensively on people with serious and chronic illness with indeterminate prognoses, why the current health care system fails so consistently to meet their needs, and what needs to change to improve the situation.
The new IOM report calls for two fundamental and profound changes in organized medicine (that if we can implement them) will meaningfully improve quality of care for our patients - those who are living with serious chronic illness, as well as those who may die in the next year or two. The first is a call for universal health professional and clinician (physician, nurses, social workers, others) education and training in the core principles and practices of palliative care - pain and symptom management, safe and effective use of opioids, skilled communication about what matters most to patients and their families and how the health care system can help achieve those goals, and seamless, well coordinated and communicated care across multiple settings of care over time.
The second game changing recommendation in the IOM report calls for coverage of both social and medical needs among the sickest and most complex patients. Roughly 40% of all medical spending is precipitated by unmet social support needs- low literacy, language barriers, poor nutrition, unsafe housing, family violence, mental illness, and most important, the absence of support for exhausted and overwhelmed family caregivers. Why don't we already pay for these services? It is prohibited by law under Medicare statute which covers only those services that are "medically necessary." As our payment system moves from the fee-for-service, pay-for-volume system of the past towards financial risk models, recognition of the inextricable association of social determinants to health care utilization will lead to change.
Join Us!

You will learn to:

• Identify the key IOM report recommendations
• Leverage the report recommendations to make an effective case for local change in care of the seriously ill
• Understand the relationship between prognosis and healthcare spending (not what you think!)
• Access ideas from the field on how best to implement report recommendations

Who Should Attend:

• Palliative care and hospice clinicians
• Palliative care and hospice leadership
• Health system leadership
• ACO leadership
• Clinicians caring for high risk populations including dementia, frailty, multimorbidity, organ system failure, and cancer Home care leaders Long term care leaders

Call Details

• $0 per registered participant, which includes post event recording download
• Continuing education credits are not offered for web conferences
• Web conference event which requires live internet access. Audio portion may be accessed through toll line or through VOIP (computer speakers and/or headset/microphone).
• PowerPoint presentations accompany each event
• You will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with the presenters
• Continue the discussion following the event at CAPCconnect™, the CAPC forum.

Any questions? Contact Margaret Schutz at (212) 201-2670 or margaret.schutz@mssm.ed