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2023 EMTALA Series Part I


Medicare-certified hospitals must follow the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ regulations and interpretative guidelines for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. This three-part series will focus on problematic areas of EMTALA concepts, adequacy of medical screening and on-call physician issues.

Part I focuses on the basic requirements of EMTALA and available resources to hospitals. The presentation will discuss EMTALA definitions and requirements.
 

 

Seamless Clinic and Community Connections - Stroke Care Across the Continuum


The Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) is inviting you to participate in one or both of the webinars in The Disparities in Stroke Care Learning Action Network (LAN) series. The series will consist of two pre-recorded, didactic webinars as pre-work to the two live-virtual learning and networking sessions (one following each of the two recorded webinars).  This FREE webinar series is sponsored in part by the Wisconsin Stroke Program at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Funding for the stroke program is made possible by the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Prevention Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The group's mission is to discuss the causes of disparities in stroke care, share solutions, and offer professional networking for improving stroke outcomes across the state of Wisconsin. This session will be hosted by WHA physician improvement advisor Dr. Bobby Redwood with hospital subject matter experts in stroke care available for discussion. The content is appropriate for stroke coordinators, stroke medical directors, quality improvement professionals working to improve stroke care, and any healthcare professional who treats stroke patients.

Each recorded webinar will be followed by a 90-minute Learning Action Networking (LAN) virtual event.

 

 

2023 EMTALA Series Part II


Medicare-certified hospitals must follow the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ regulations and interpretative guidelines for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. This three-part series will focus on problematic areas of EMTALA concepts, adequacy of medical screening and on-call physician issues.

Part II will discuss EMTALA issues including adequacy of medical screening examinations, certification of false labor, observation, inpatient services, outpatient services, EMTALA sign issues and appropriate transfers.
 

 

2023 EMTALA Series Part III


Medicare-certified hospitals must follow the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ regulations and interpretative guidelines for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. This three-part series will focus on problematic areas of EMTALA concepts, adequacy of medical screening and on-call physician issues.

Part III will focus on physician involvement with the EMTALA process including on-call physician schedules, on call physician rules, when an on-call physician must appear in the emergency department and dealing with difficult patient situations including leaving against medical advice or without being seen.
 

 

A Focus on Transparency

Kaavio Brown Bag Lunch Summer Series

The WHAIC has developed a new payor detail dashboard that will allow users to understand their payor mix as well as the details behind it, including other facilities in the market, service line and more. In addition, WHAIC will review its Charge Analyzer tool which allows hospitals a systematic way to analyze their charges by offering a “drill down” type of functionality. Join us for this members-only webinar as we focus on transparency!

 

 

CISO Panel Discussion

Strategy, Execution, and the Unknowns in Healthcare Cybersecurity

 

Join us as we conquer the challenges of cybersecurity in healthcare with a panel of industry leading security professionals as they uncover strategies and tactics to reduce cybersecurity risk in your healthcare technology environment. Jennifer Mueller, Vice President & Chief Privacy Officer from Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center will moderate our esteemed panel of information security executives.
 
In this hour-long discussion, we will ask questions ranging from information security strategy to execution to managing incidents in real time. Join this group of leaders in cybersecurity as we build a healthcare-focused technology community where meaningful conversations take place, and attendees and gain valuable insights from their peers.
 
Moderator:
Jennifer Mueller – VP and Privacy Officer at the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center
 
Panelists:
Angela Johnson – CISO at Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
 
Derek Sailors – Information Security Officer at Community Hospital, McCook, NE
 
Ben Schmitt – CISO at Mary Greeley Medical Center, Ames, IA
 
Jennifer Mueller – CISO at Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, WI
 

 

Answering your business questions with Kaavio

Kaavio Brown Bag Lunch Summer Series

The WHAIC team welcomes all data purchasers, and data users, to participate in a short session where we will demonstrate how to use Kaavio and quick reports to answer your business questions. In addition, this session will focus on understanding the additional WHA member dashboards behind the WHA member portal.

 

Decision Making at Wisconsin Rural Hospitals Utilizing the SHIP Rural Health Dashboard Suite: A focus on what’s *NEW*

Kaavio Brown Bag Lunch Summer Series

To help our rural hospitals grow and expand their data programs, WHAIC, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health, has developed a suite of web-based dashboards that includes financial, quality and other data/information for rural hospitals. The development of the Rural Health Dashboards is based on WHAIC’s discharge data, fiscal survey results and quality metrics. The dashboard supports the comparison of target hospital(s) to each other and/or to rural cohort. If you are currently, or are eligible for a SHIP grant, please join us for this informative webinar!