Fall 2021

Sustainable Approaches to Advances in CT Imaging

Sustainability is an integral part of managing a health care organization. Both medical imaging practitioners and administrators should seek to identify areas of opportunities to reduce waste and optimize care. Join us for a presentation covering developing a CTA/FFRct strategy and ways to maintain. Experts will also provide an overview of the guidelines and what this means for practices varying in size and volume of procedures.

Fall 2021

Care Transformation and Innovation – Transformative Initiatives for 2021 and Beyond

Join Ginger Biesbrock, PA-C, MPH, MPAS, FACC, MedAxiom’s Executive Vice President of Care Transformation and Taylr Jesinger, MHA, MedAxiom’s Vice President of Innovation as they provide an overview of what care transformation means and how to apply it to your organization. Additionally, they offer insights into transformative initiatives related to care delivery and managing patients in a value-based environment.

Fall 2021

Cath Lab Improvement: Building Success with Analytics

This presentation covers the development of initiatives that parallel the expansion and success of cardiac catherization laboratories, optimizing clinical and operation workflow. Learn how to achieve continuous improvement and success, and review processes and systems designed to use analytics to optimize patient-team interactions.

Fall 2021

Healthcare Reform: Transition to Value and Regulatory Update

The urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated the change in health care delivery including resource optimization, data-driven thinking and decision making. Health care regulations and the market have also pushed payers and providers to look at the total cost of care through value-based payment arrangements. This presentation covers major issues impacting the practice of cardiology including mandatory bundled payments, evolution of commercial episodes and direction of hospital employment.

Fall 2021

Building In-House Arrhythmia Departments

This session discusses the development of in-house arrythmia departments. Topics include team utilization, workflows, and financial management.

Fall 2021

Cardiac Rehab: Optimize Access and Enrollment

Enrolling patients in a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program can reduce the risk of death from future cardiac events and all-cause mortality. It can also improve risk factors, functional status, quality of life and mood and keep patients out of the hospital. During this session, we review best practices for optimizing patient access to a CR program and solutions for increasing enrollment.

Fall 2021

Developing & Implementing a Cardiometabolic Clinic Workflow

Effective cardiovascular care among patients with diabetes requires expertise among both endocrinology and cardiology. While these disciplines have been separated across different departments historically, recent innovations have brought in a new era of integrated care. This session provides insights and guidance on achieving a streamlined approach to cardiometabolic clinic workflow.

Fall 2021

CV Program Operations – Key Metrics for Success

The demands on our healthcare system today require all organizations to function at peak efficiency. In this session, leaders share their vast professional expertise inside of leading cardiovascular practices and service lines to optimize services and bring your organization to best practice.

Fall 2021

Wearable Devices and Remote Monitoring: Managing Device Data, Improving Care and Optimizing Workflow

Wearable technology has grown exponentially in popularity with patients and physicians. Many doctors are finding the data from wearables to be extremely valuable in monitoring patient health. This discussion focuses on how programs have improved their device clinics using new technologies to manage device data, improve care, optimize workflow and how to handle the deluge of data from implantable and wearable devices and the business considerations of managing the data.

Fall 2021

Starting a Fellowship Program

Hear different perspectives on developing and implementing a cardiology fellowship program. Programs  discuss operational insights, financial guidance and lessons learned from organizations with established fellowship programs and those who are just starting out. 

Fall 2021

Ask the Consultants Roundtable

Get expert insights and advice from the MedAxiom Consulting team. This informal roundtable discussion includes a review of the top issues facing cardiovascular care providers, as well as  a Q&A session with attendees. 

Fall 2021

Private Practice Insights

A roundtable of healthcare innovators who discuss issues directly related to independent practices. Experts discuss tips and insights to powering the private practices of tomorrow, including research, industry innovations and other relevant practice insights.

Fall 2021

Cardiology in the Outreach Settings

Hear from an organization that has seen success in the cardiology outreach setting. This program discusses consultation services, technological services and the benefits of using the cardiovascular outreach program.

Fall 2021

Leveraging Technology to Achieve the Quadruple Aim in CIED Management

The Quadruple Aim of improved patient experience, better outcomes, lower cost, and enhanced clinician experience are the benchmarks for success when measuring the impact of device care operational investments and change. Remote patient management investment strategies should be held to these same Quadruple Aim success metrics.

In this session, Megan Black, RN, BSN at ProMedica Physicians Cardiology, and Reed Gaither, COO of device workflow software company Murj, discuss how ProMedica embraced change and leveraged Murj technology to achieve positive results on all Quadruple Aim metrics. Megan will share her first-hand experience with transitioning to a new device management solution, the investment needed to succeed in changing a 20-year-old workflow, and the metrics that prove the worth of the investment.

Fall 2021

Newly Published Clinical Study

Newly Published Clinical Study Compares Results of an Optimal Protein/Carbohydrate-Restricted Intervention with “Standard Care Guidelines” on Changes in Weight, Body Composition and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.

Fall 2021

Overcoming the Challenge of Physician Slowdown

Physician slowdown is a top concern for cardiovascular group and program leaders. Tune in to hear best practices for creating an equitable and effective physician slowdown policy that fits the needs and culture of your group. 

Fall 2021

ASC Development

The development of an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) can impact the quality of patient care while improving the patient and clinician experience. This session focuses on clinical, financial, and operational strategy from different perspectives. 

Fall 2021

Transforming Ambulatory Monitoring With a Scalable Model

Learn how a MedAxiom member implemented, adopted, and grew an ambulatory cardiac monitoring program by partnering with Boston Scientific/Preventice, a hardware and software solution for remote patient management and consumer wearables. By adopting a scalable program and through access to actionable data, this MedAxiom member was able to experience unprecedented growth and better outcomes for their patient population.

Fall 2020

Contemporary CV Physician Compensation Models

Get insight into an innovative compensation model from a large program that promotes value, team and strategy. Experts will discuss different approaches to measuring individual physician work, advancing the utilization of APPs, connecting with surgical programs and rewarding non-revenue producing or low-yield compensation activities.

Fall 2020

Welcoming Remarks & Strategic Planning in a Post-COVID World

Kicking off the CV Transforum Fall’20 Virtual Conference with opening remarks from MedAxiom and the ACC leaders, who provide an industry outlook, membership updates, conference information and more.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has permanently changed healthcare and challenged traditional thinking around strategy. Hear from experts, representing different program models, as they share their unique perspectives on how to prioritize and think strategically in a post-COVID world.

Fall 2020

Virtual Care Strategy – Create a Holistic Delivery Model with Telehealth

Many of us have utilized telehealth services as a part of our pandemic care strategy, but have you developed a virtual care strategy that incorporates non-traditional face-to-face care delivery into your care models? This session will review the multiple options for virtual care delivery and how to develop a strategy that will focus on your high-risk patient populations.

Fall 2020

Financial Organization Health – Surviving the Pandemic and What to Expect in 2021

COVID-19 continues to take a heavy toll on America’s healthcare infrastructure. How will this continue to impact our financial outlook for 2021? In this session, hear from two MedAxiom programs about impacts of volume, potential decreased revenue, increased costs and how to plan for 2021.

Fall 2020

Continuous Improvement - Achieving Cardiac Device Clinic Excellence (Sponsored by Murj)

The opportunity and need to modernize a cardiac device clinic has never been greater. Several innovative technologies can enable more care with efficiency that is unrivaled. Making the decision to upgrade your clinic is a multi-step process, but if done properly, can lead to clinical operations that are faster, more profitable and more insightful than ever before. This presentation explores best practices in managing the change to modern device workflow and benchmark approaches to monitoring the success of this modernization.

Fall 2020

Case Study: The Key to Access Management is Team-Based Care

Care team utilization has become even more important for programs to maintain effective access strategies, create nimble delivery models and manage high-risk patient populations in a multi-disciplinary fashion. Hear from a program as they provide insight into their journey to high performing care team models.

Fall 2020

Patient Throughput Strategies – Bypass the Waiting Room

Social distancing measures have resulted in the need for a patient throughput strategy that either minimizes or eliminates the use of a waiting room. These changes in flow will require front office and clinic workflows. Learn from a program that has successfully developed and implemented these strategies.

Fall 2020

Analytics in the CV Environment

Hear from two programs who are successfully using analytics to improve cost and quality, while leveraging platforms to accelerate their path towards operational and financial improvement.

Fall 2020

Breakthrough Innovations in Telehealth & Disease Management

The ACC’s Innovation Team and MedAxiom have teamed up to bring you two incredibly powerful tools that have recently been launched into the market. Heartbeat Health is a telemedicine platform designed for cardiologists, by cardiologists. This platform is under expansion to become the home of connected care for cardiovascular care teams. Cleerly is designed to assist with diagnosis and treatment of CAD. The platform’s ability to identify plaque location and plaque type are unparalleled. Tools for the cardiologist, the PCP, and the patient are embedded in this complete solution. The presentation will focus on the science and utilization of these two breakthroughs.

Fall 2020

Best Practices for Pandemic Recovery

As programs adapt to the new normal, best practices for pandemic recovery may not be obvious. Hear detailed and specific plans from a few programs who have engineered safe, effective and comprehensive recovery strategies within their respective institutions.

Fall 2020

Alignment 2.0: A New Physician/Hospital Alignment Model

Hospitals frequently report large financial losses on their employed physician workforce. Cardiovascular physicians often bristle under the perceived yolk of employment, but also recognize there are synergies in integration. Is there a better approach? In this session, experts will explore some re-imagined models that consider integration from both important perspectives.

Fall 2020

CMS Guidance: ASCs and the Journey Ahead

Since January 1, 2020, CMS reimburses for PCI in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) setting, expanding on the ability to receive CMS reimbursement for diagnostic catheterizations, which was approved as of January 1, 2019. Being able to provide diagnosis and treatment in the ASC setting coupled with a lower cost of care for a payer has resulted in ASC development being a key strategy in the drive to deliver value-based care. Hear from programs who have experience with an ASC as an owner/provider, and explore the start-up of the ASC from a clinical, financial and operational perspective.

Fall 2020

Virtual Cardiac Rehab - A Powerful Solution During COVID and Beyond (Sponsored by Pritikin ICR)

Learn more about Pritikin ICR’s dynamic, home-based patient engagement tools. The platform allows your staff to engage, direct, and monitor your patients at home, as well as extend the combined resources of your facility and Pritikin to them in a convenient, easy-to-use manner. While absolutely essential during this COVID crisis, we are confident that this virtual model will remain a powerful solution at your practice indefinitely.

Fall 2020

Future Trends in Service Lines

See one program's journey into systematically linking service lines together, beginning with CV and oncology, sleep medicine and beyond.

Fall 2020

Heart Team Approach for Shared Decision Making

The Heart Team multidisciplinary shared decision-making strategy is a class IA recommendation for ischemic patients. In addition, shared decision making is a requirement for TAVR and PMVR procedures. As programs have developed high performing strategies around this, challenges have been managed, processes have been created and relationships have been built. Learn from a group that has developed their processes as a formal strategy to advance their programs.

Fall 2020

E/M Changes Are Coming! How to Prepare and Prosper

CMS E/M guidelines for office and outpatient services are revised and proposed to take effect in January 2021. How will these changes impact your program? Experts will delve into key takeaways to help you plan for 2021 and potential revenue impacts.

Fall 2020

Become an APP Leader - How to Get Started

Hear from advanced practice provider (APP) leaders Ginger Biesbrock and Jerry Blackwell as they review their leadership journeys and provide insight into their leadership styles. This dynamic session will also include an “Ask the Expert” roundtable where APP leaders will share knowledge directly through a Q&A.

Fall 2020

Optimize the Revenue Cycle with Prior Authorization Management

During this session Nicole Knight shares cost and staffing insights for managing authorizations to optimize the revenue cycle. We also share successes from a program that has utilized an authorization platform to facilitate automation within their processes and hear best practices.

Fall 2020

Sustainable Strategies: ICR and Virtual CR

The world of intensive cardiac rehab (ICR) was shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic. Programs were forced to shut down and have now reopened using appropriate social distancing measures and cleaning protocols. In the midst of the shutdown, it became important to find a virtual solution to meet the needs of the patient population. Those strategies continue to provide a holistic realm of options for patients that aren’t able to attend traditional ICR programs. The importance of ICR and virtual CR strategies will be explored during this session that will provide real perspectives from the field.